09/16/2021 1:58 PM
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 09/16/2021 1:58 PM
The hard fall of Barcelona with Bayern Munich in his first appearance in the Champions League without Lionel Messi had a deep impact on football but also on leadership.
This Thursday, the Board of Directors chaired by Joan Laporta met and
called for the immediate dismissal
of coach Ronald Koeman, designated as the main person responsible for the team's performance.
As reported by
TV3
and the Madrid sports newspaper
As
, several leaders stood up to the president-elect in March so that he ends with a contract that has an expiration date in June 2022 and put a technician of their liking and not the chosen one in the position. by Josep Maria Bartomeu.
The problem to achieve this, of course, is that he would have to face compensation, an expense that seems difficult to face for a club that has lost its greatest asset -Mess- because it cannot afford his pass.
FC Barcelona's Dutch coach Ronald Koeman during the Champions League group stage match against Bayern Munich.
Foyo: EFE
Although Koeman's figure was weakened after the 0-3 at the Camp Nou and Laporta does not like it, the manager for now supports him because he
does not have money in the box nor does he have a replacement
.
According to As, "Jordi Cruyff, Laporta's advisor, is absolutely reluctant to be placed in a position in which he would replace a personal friend of the family, and Laporta does not consider Sergi Barjuan, the subsidiary's technician, qualified to take charge of the first team at this time".
This situation is triggered after a meeting of the small table held at the end of the game, which lasted until 2 in the morning.
The president met with his vice, Rafael Yuste, and with the leader Mateu Alemany to evaluate, among other things, the situation of the Dutch coach.
Joan Laporta and Ronald Koeman, together, the day the president took the helm of Barcelona.
Photo: AFP
It was undoubtedly a step that excited several of the 18 members of the Board - too many to agree to openly call for Koeman's dismissal - guided more by passion than knowledge.
As if a parallel were drawn with the political crisis in Argentina, where Alberto Fernández came out to clarify that "the management will continue" as he deems "convenient", Laporta is clear that he will be the one to make the decision.
For that he relies on Yuste, Alemany, who is the football director but is not part of the Board, and Ramon Planes, technical secretary.
It was also the three of them who went to the locker room after the defeat against Bayern Munich to "know first-hand the feelings of the Dutch coach," according to the newspaper
La Vanguardia
.
In that Catalan site they also affirm that "the directive gives Koeman a month of margin so that the improvements are visible".
The ultimatum stretches until the next FIFA date.
Barcelona suffered another ugly defeat against Bayern Munich, for the Champions League.
Photo: Reuters
Until then, Koeman's Barcelona does not expect an easy route.
Although now he will have a priori more accessible crosses (against Granada, Cádiz and Levante), then he will have to go out to play his second day of the Champions League - against Benfica in Portugal - and visit Atlético in the Wanda Metropolitano.
Likewise, in the Koeman-Laporta relationship there are already two points of no return: in June the president weakened the coach by saying that he was giving fifteen days of reflection, while later the DT accused the leader in the Dutch media of leaking information.
The mini-riot of leaders of the Junta does nothing more than add fuel to a fire that is quite fanned.
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