The former midfielder and current coach of Qatar’s Al Sadd is only waiting to leave his current club to replace the ‘Wembley hero’. Sergi Barjuan, the subsidiary’s technician, will assume the position as interim in the meantime
It’s over. The last defeat of the Barcelona in Vallecas, three days after the fall against Real Madrid at the Camp Nou, it has cost the job to Ronald Koeman. The Wembley hero, pending compensation of around 12 million euros, will no longer lead the team this Saturday against Alavs. The top favorite to replace it is Xavi Hernndez, who should only wait to disassociate himself from Al-Sadd qatar before assuming the bench for which he longs so much. Xavi has a small termination clause that must be assumed by the Barça club. But also a personal agreement with the Qatari government to fulfill the dream of his life. In the meantime, Sergi Barjun, the affiliate coach and Koeman’s former teammate on Cruyff’s Dream Team, fill the position on an interim basis.
On the same trip back from Madrid, the Barça management leadership, headed by Joan Laporta, decided that Koeman could no longer go on. The managers already crossed messages at that time expressing their tremendous regret at a situation that they considered “unsustainable.” The bull was over. That interwar period established by the president on the same morning that Barcelona lost in the Metropolitan should come to an end.
“The FC Barcelona has dismissed tonight to Ronald Koeman as a first team technician. The club president, Joan Laporta, It has been communicated to him after the defeat against Rayo Vallecano. Ronald Koeman said goodbye to the squad this Thursday at the Ciudad Deportiva. The FC Barcelona wants to thank you for the services provided to the entity and wishes you good luck in your professional career “, confirm the statement.
The Barça team is ninth in the League, out of the European positions. They have not won a single away game. While in the Champions League, a competition in which he will risk his life next Tuesday, he has only been able to win one game (1-0 at Dinamo), also reaping two goals against him. Benfica (3-0) and Bayern (0-3).
Sergi Barjuan, bridge technician
Last night an interim figure was sought to take over the team until Xavi Hernndez can take over. Fired last summer Garca Pimienta, the name of Sergi Barjuan, a technician of the subsidiary, already put on the table. Some managers expressed serious doubts about the former Barça side and proposed that the position be assumed by Albert Capellas, former Denmark Under-21 coach. After a last meeting this morning, Sergi’s option has finally won out. The script twist caught some leader off his feet. Sergi will direct the training of the first team this afternoon, appear this Friday before the press with Joan Laporta and on Saturday he will occupy the Camp Nou bench in the match against Alavs. If Barcelona do not reach an agreement with Xavi before, it will be Sergi who will also lead the group in the capital duel of the Champions League in Kiev next Tuesday.
Laporta was the one who made the final decision on Koeman’s firing. His career at Barcelona was hopeless. Only 15 months in office, with 67 gamesin which he added 39 victories, 12 draws and 16 defeats.
Although he had to walk on the scorched earth left by Josep Maria Bartomeu and assume functions that may not correspond to him, such as the telephone dismissal of Luis Surez In his first summer, the coach never made his team recognizable. Neither was there a tactical plan, nor was there a clear line on who should be the right pieces. In Vallecas, by the way, the four captains were lined up: Sergio Busquets, Sergi Roberto, Gerard Piqu and Jordi Alba.
His best moment was the Copa del Rey won at the La Cartuja stadium against Athletic, just the prelude to the final collapse of the team in the League. After Laporta, last May, recognized the Dutchman who was looking for a replacement, he ended up keeping him in office due to the inability to find a replacement and the difficulties in assuming financial compensation.
Always waving the youth flag, with the arrival of the elite of Pedri, Gavi, Nico Gonzlez O Mingueza as a legacy, and punishing the absence of decisive footballers, the departure this summer of Griezmann and, above all, Messi, ended up undermining a trajectory that ended with Agero and Luuk de Jong trying to hunt balls in Vallecas.
The image of his car being shaken by a group of excited after the fall in the last classic was nothing more than the sad preamble of a goodbye that is probably late.
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