Barcelona's manager Luis Enrique has failed to discuss anything concerning his future to the club. He has neither renewed his contract nor had a meeting with the club as regards his renewal. According to reports emanating from Spain, Don Balon says, it will be difficult for Enrique to be persuaded to continue in the job.
As part of the report coming from Spain, managers Jurgen Klopp and Thomas Tuchel are among the favourites candidates to replace Enrique following their stellar performances with their club Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund respectively. However, Barcelona hasn't taken an eye of their trail.
Moreover, rumours has it that Barcelona players do not want Luis Enrique to continue whilst captain Andres Iniesta's words to the media contradicts this notion.
Anyways, Don Balon claims the other names on the list are:
As part of the report coming from Spain, managers Jurgen Klopp and Thomas Tuchel are among the favourites candidates to replace Enrique following their stellar performances with their club Liverpool and Borussia Dortmund respectively. However, Barcelona hasn't taken an eye of their trail.
Moreover, rumours has it that Barcelona players do not want Luis Enrique to continue whilst captain Andres Iniesta's words to the media contradicts this notion.
Anyways, Don Balon claims the other names on the list are:
- Ernesto Valverde: Current manager of Athletic Club Bilbao and former manager of Valencia, Olympiacos, Villarreal, and Espanyol, as well as former Barcelona player.
- Eusebio Sacristán: Current Real Sociedad manager, former Barcelona B and Celta manager and Barcelona player.
- Ronald Koeman: Current manager of Everton, former manager of Southampton, Valencia, and Benfica, as well as several Dutch clubs. Former assistant manager at Barcelona and the Dutch national team, as well as former player of FC Barcelona (famously scoring the winning goal in Barcelona's first European Cup final win.)
- Jorge Sampaoli: Current Sevilla manager, former Chilean national team manager who won Copa América twice.
- Thomas Tuchel: Current Borussia Dortmund manager and former Mainz 05 and FC Augsburg II manager.
- Laurent Blanc: most recently the manager of Paris Saint-Germain, previously the manager of France and Bordeaux. Former FC Barcelona player, a World Cup winner with France.
How reliable is this report? Well, it remains to be seen, but the mood in the dressing room it describes seems much more dire than I would assess based on public behavior and declarations.
On the other hand, it’s clear Luis Enrique has at least not decided yet whether to stay or not, so it would only be natural for FC Barcelona to prepare possible alternatives. They don’t want to be caught by surprise.
Still on the matter, following the emergence of this list, will it be right to say an insider has prepared the shortlist or it is a random selection feasibility study to wait for future occurrences. I don’t know, but honestly, this looks like from a reliable source.
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