Ronald Koeman is set to become the new Barca coach. He should take an ex-Bundesliga trainer with him. And even a superstar could leave the club.
- After the 8-2 debacle against Bayern *, FC Barcelona is facing a radical change.
- After the sacking of coach Quique Setien, the new strong man should already be determined. An ex-Hoffenheim coach should also be part of the coaching team.
- A super start, on the other hand, could leave the Catalans. He could return to the ex-club.
Barcelona - The word “half-hearted” describes the efforts of FC Barcelona in recent years sufficiently. The proud Catalans failed to successfully rebuild the team after the mega-successful Iniesta Xavi era. And that despite costly transfers like those from Antoine Griezman, Ousmane Dembele or Coutinho. All three cost a three-digit million sum, but belong more to the category of “transfer flops”.
The 8-2 debacle in the Champions League quarter-finals against a fresh and young FC Bayern Munich * should have frightened the last one. The warning shot in Lisbon, 1000 kilometers away, could be heard loud and clear in Barcelona . After the dismissal of coach Quique Setien on Monday (August 17th), the new strong man should already be determined. And he should get help from an ex-Bundesliga * coach. The FC Barcelona expresses powerful the accelerator.
Barca likely to find new coach - Koeman set to get Catalans back on track
Mauricio Pochettino, Patrick Kluivert or the solution favored by everyone with Barca legend Xavi - who will be the new coach of the Spanish runners-up? The answer is simple: none of the three. The new strong man in Catalonia is an old friend: Ronald Koeman . The Dutchman was already a player from 1989 to 1995, and from July 1998 he was an assistant coach at Blaugrana for a year and a half - under a certain Louis van Gaal. Now - almost 21 years later - he will be media reports after the new Barca boss. As the Spanish journalist David Ibáñez reports, Managing Director Oscar Grau has clarified the last contractual terms with the 57-year-old in Amsterdam. "Yes, we spoke to Koeman ," Barca's managing director told media representatives on Monday evening at Barcelona airport. Exciting: his assistant coach is said to be an old friend from the Bundesliga *.
The CEO del Barça Oscar Grau acaba de aterrizar en Barcelona procedente de Amsterdam. Ha ido a reunirse con Koeman ha reconocido “hemos hablado con él” #fcb #fcblive pic.twitter.com/r9fzTvCadl
- David Ibáñez (@ DavidIbanez5) August 17, 2020The previous Bondscoach ended his work as coach of the Dutch national team and signed a contract with FC Barcelona until 2022. In January of this year Koeman was already a candidate for coaching at Blaugrana, but at that time he still wanted to play the European Championship with the Netherlands. Barca then decided on Setien, the EM fell victim to the corona virus *. Now the marriage seems to come about on the second attempt. The deal could be confirmed in the next few days.
According to Voetbal International , Koeman will bring a former Hoffenheimer to the coaching bench . Alfred Schreuder was chosen as assistant coach by the new Barca coach. Koeman and Schreuder have been in close contact for a long time. The 47-year-old only took over TSG Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga * last summer . At the beginning of June they separated again. "Unfortunately, we couldn't agree on a common way to lead TSG into the future," the Dutchman was quoted as saying at the time. His successor in Kraichgau was confirmed in July: Sebastian Hoeneß is leaving Bayern's second team and switching to TSG.
For Schreuder it is now " Messi instead of Kramaric". Even that doesn't seem one hundred percent certain. According to media reports, the FC Barcelona superstar doesn't seem to want to participate in the upheaval in Catalonia. Manchester City should be ready to pay any price for Lionel Messi Perhaps not the only prominent departure from Barca. Striker ace Luis Suarez could also leave the club. Uruguayan and Spanish media report that the 33-year-old could return to Ajax Amsterdam. In three and a half years the striker scored 111 for the Dutch champions Goals in 159 games.
📰 [Teledoce via SPORT] | Ajax would be willing to sign Luis Suárez if he leaves Barcelona.
The Uruguayan also has offers from the MLS and Qatar. pic.twitter.com/EVZgwr5u1a
It seems as if FC Barcelona are pressing the accelerator hard. The upheaval is now apparently to be achieved at record speed. "Half-hearted" was once. * Tz.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network
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