02/14/2024 Act. at 09:05 CET
The interesting interview with Deco in the Portuguese magazine Luz (mainly due to the degree of sincerity of the answers) serves as a guide to glimpse the ideology and diagnosis of the sports director, beyond all the controversy unleashed by “breaking with the past and moving towards a new paradigm”, which deserved a hasty editorial correction.
“Break with the past” can be interpreted however one wants, one of them is to think that Barça needs to one day break with its reality in the form of European decadence. He is on his way to his ninth consecutive season not only without winning a continental title but also being unable to reach a final. His last titles date back to 2015, with Luis Enrique and the trident Messi – Suarez – NeymarThe Champions League was won in Berlin, and the Super Cup was won in Tiphilis.
Contextualizing it in the modern history of the club alone, this European drought can be compared with the one experienced between the 1996-97 season, when Barcelona won its last European Cup Winners’ Cup (with a goal from Ronaldo penalty against PSG in the final in Rotterdam) and then the Super Cup, against Borussia Dortmund, and the 2006 Champions League in Saint Dennis with the goal of Belletti.
Deco explains that the search for a new coach (places emphasis on having experience which rules out Rafa Marquez) has the added difficulty of not being able to make large investments, which “It discourages any coach who comes here with the desire to win everything and that’s it.”
And when it comes to talking about the summer market, there are two concepts implicit. First, to look for names that take responsibility away from young people.. “You can’t take a group of kids, dress them in the Barça shirt and expect them to win titles from one day to the next”says the sports director.
And, secondly, add muscle. This should not be incompatible with technical players, in the two positions that must be reinforced: that of the defensive pivot and a winger who acts on the left wing. Deco’s exact words are: “The team did not show, in many games, a physical and athletic capacity with which it could overcome its opponents.”
Reading the Blaugrana top executive, it is not strange that He has set his sights on Amadou Onana (Everton), as the number one target for the midfielder.
The Senegalese center, 22 years old, with a Belgian passport, stands out for his corpulence – he measures 1.95 – and for his formidable physical display. He is a very positional player although he has arrival. The possible relegation of the Toffees (they have already received a first sanction with a loss of points and a second could come with catastrophic consequences) would facilitate his incorporation. Barça does not intend to pay more than 40 ‘kilos’.
2024-02-14 05:30:33
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