Hansi Flick would be the subsequent coach of FC Barcelona. The Blaugrana membership received the sure from the previous Bayern Munich coach, after a lightning journey this Wednesday by the sporting director, Deco, and the member of the Sports activities Fee, Bojan Krkic, to London. At this summit, aside from Flick, there was additionally his agent, Pini Zahivi. Regardless of the denials from all of the events concerned, the reality is that this assembly lastly happened, which additionally ended satisfactorily, certifying a precept of settlement with Flick, who superior ‘El Chiringuito’ and was capable of verify AS, to be coach of FC Barcelona the subsequent two seasons.
Clearly, the membership should now resolve the contractual scenario of Xavi Hernández and the remainder of his workers. Nobody from Barça has but communicated something formally to the coach – in AS we already introduced that Laporta’s former brother-in-law, Alejandro Echevarría, had let him know the potential for in search of an agreed exit a couple of days in the past. This officiality won’t be finalized till after the sport in opposition to Sevilla on Sunday. A gathering with the Sports activities Fee is scheduled for Monday or Tuesday the place the explanations for his dismissal will likely be defined, with Deco as grasp of ceremonies, since a part of the choice is because of the report ready by the sports activities director. This resolution have to be endorsed on Thursday by the Board of Administrators, though in precept no shock is anticipated: many of the administrators already advocated for his departure, earlier than it was ratified by Laporta within the well-known ‘sushi pact’.
The ‘crux’ of the difficulty is whether or not there will likely be an financial settlement on compensation. From these across the coach it’s assured that the coach can be prepared to surrender a superb a part of the remaining 12 months, so long as the membership commits to fulfilling the remainder of his assistants. In any case, we should do not forget that Xavi already made it very clear when he introduced his delayed resignation on the finish of January, that he was prepared to surrender for your complete 12 months.
There is no such thing as a doubt that Xavi’s scenario for the time being may be very delicate. With out having any official information from the membership, with a deafening exterior noise, with the squad unsuccessfully attempting to isolate themselves from the surroundings and with the identify of Hansi Flick already in all of the swimming pools, Xavi has to professionally plan Sunday’s recreation in opposition to Sevilla , and what’s virtually worse, he faces two extra press conferences.
It have to be remembered that Flick has been within the Blaugrana orbit for a while. Since Xavi introduced his delayed dismissal, the German coach positioned himself amongst Laporta’s favorites. The German was additionally helped by the truth that he had Zahivi as an agent, a person of the president’s utmost confidence. Flick needed to reveal from the primary minute his curiosity in signing for Barcelona, beginning to examine Spanish and assimilating all of Barcelona’s soccer ideas. The truth is, he even traveled to Brighton to see De Zerbi’s workforce, being one of many best exponents of positional play and publicly praised by Pep Guardiola. His refusal to handle Chelsea in latest days, after the announcement of Mauricio Pochettino’s departure, was one other symptom of his unalterable need to take a seat on the Barcelona bench.
Laporta has at all times been a defender of the German path. As quickly as he was proclaimed president, he tried with out success to rent a coach from the German college. His favorites had been Julian Nagelsmann and Thomas Tuchel. Lastly, neither of them might come, having to stick with Ronald Koeman, whom he struck down three months into the season.
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Crucial endorsement that Flick has is having been the architect of essentially the most profitable Bayern Munich workforce in historical past, successful a sextete, and likewise beating Barcelona, in one of many membership’s most historic humiliations in Europe (2-8). Curiously, his time on the Bavarian entity was comparatively short-lived – two seasons, accounting for 86 video games -, assuming the place of Germany coach, the place he handed with out ache or glory after enjoying 25 video games. The truth is, since his time on the ‘Mannschaft’, he had already been unemployed for nearly eight months. Every part signifies that, beginning July 1, he could have a brand new job…
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