History repeats itself as Barca’s board meets to fire a coach, hire a coach, refuse to honorably resign on masse and try to placate a furious Lionel Messi
Soccer’s version of Below Deck continues with another day of drama, defections and possibly a Dutchman from the past coming back
Well, it’s not as if Barcelona’s bosses have not had some recent practice at this.
That’s the emergency board meeting where a coach is fired, another is hired (at the fifth choice mark), a short consideration is given to an honorable resignation on mass – before being dismissed – and the topic of whether any of this will fly with a disgruntled Lionel Messi.
The last time Barca’s board met with such an agenda was back in January when Ernesto Valverde was ditched and replaced by a cow-gazing Quique Setien. That bold move did not go so well considering it ended up with the LaLiga title being lost to Real Madrid and quite the Champions League humiliation to Bayern Munich.
Congratulations Bayern,superb performance par excellence….Remember Barca of yesteryear,because now?
“Gone is the romance that was so divine.
’tis broken and cannot be mended. “ #BarcaBayern— Ray Hudson (@RayHudson) August 15, 2020
Barca’s big cheeses are meeting again on Monday to run through the same agenda. First order of business will be to fire Setien, just weeks after backing him. The next will be to dial around to find a new coach – the same names of Xavi Hernandez, Ronald Koeman and maybe this time, Mauricio Pochettino will be on the shortlist – but there could be another ‘out there’ name signed up once they all say ‘no, thanks’.
There will be a short discussion lead by the president, Josep Bartomeu, on if they should call elections and basically quit a year early. That will be put away to one side once again.
Finally, the Lionel Messi topic. A sketchy report suggests that the Argentinean ace wants to leave the club immediately to reunite with Pep Guardiola, but Barca has been there before only for Messi to stay once a promise to sign Neymar again has been made. And besides, it’s not as if Manchester City is in a better situation.
That may not cut it this time as there’s no money left in the kitty and PSG aren’t selling.
While a board meeting might fix a few issues just a couple of weeks before preseason starts for Barcelona, the clubs’ problems won’t be going away any time soon.
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