rpbooks 856 The reconstruction of Barcelona begins!
856 The reconstruction of Barcelona begins!
After Barcelona suffered a disastrous defeat at the Bernabeu, after more than five hours of meetings the next day, Barcelona finally made a decision.
At the press conference, European football reporters gathered here, and Barcelona President Laporta made an appearance in person.
Chairman Laporta announced that coach Rijkaard will leave at the end of the season, and the legendary star Pep Guardiola will replace the black swan position.
It is not news that Black Swan dismissed get out of class and Guardiola took office. The Spanish media reported the news early.
It is unforgivable for Barcelona to fail to win the championship for two years. At today's official press conference, Laporta also seemed a little helpless; After the end, he will no longer be the head coach of the team, and the person who will replace him will be Pep Guardiola."
"He worked very hard and succeeded, but unfortunately, we haven't won a trophy for two years." Hearing it, the chairman felt uncomfortable.
The 37-year-old Guardiola is no stranger to Barcelona fans. During his player days, the legendary star played for 17 years at Camp Nou and won six league trophies and a Champions League with the team. trophy.
Although Guardiola does not have more coaching experience than the previously rumored successor Mourinho, for Barcelona, he is undoubtedly more suitable than Mourinho.
"He has a very deep understanding of football and is very knowledgeable. In addition, his self-confidence and ambition can help him succeed here." Chairman Laporta gave Guardiola full trust.
At present, the most important thing for Barcelona is to determine the qualifications for the Champions League in the remaining games. The team ranks third after Villarreal.When talking about the lineup for the new season, Laporta only said one sentence: "I plan to let the team have the best lineup in the world."
The focus of the media began to turn to Guardiola. After all, a coach who can be said to have no top-level coaching experience suddenly wants to take charge of a top European giant, which will definitely attract great attention from the outside world.
Guardiola, who has only more than 30 coaching experience in the D-League, was selected as the new coach of Barcelona, which shows the consistent courage of the Barcelona club to trust newcomers.
but.In addition to being happy, Guardiola feels more responsibility, a huge responsibility to bring Barcelona, a century-old giant, out of crisis.
There are many tasks before Guardiola, and the first step is to form a team with combat effectiveness.
It is reported that Guardiola first discussed the formation of a new team with Barcelona's technical director Beki Christian and the head of the club's youth training camp, Jose, and also discussed the construction framework of the new team.
but.For Guardiola, what had been a difficult but promising vision of the future has now hit a realistic snag.
The most difficult of these is the club's economy. Barcelona's economic situation is not optimistic now: Guardiola's cleaning plan has a real conflict with the Barcelona club's bank account.
A person inside Barcelona broke a lot of information to the media.Most of them are about Pep Guardiola's purge list, and the largest one includes 13 players.
Guardiola hopes to give Barcelona a new look by cleaning the decayed parts and introducing new forces. However, 13 players are too many and unrealistic.Pinto.Marcos, Zambrotta, Thuram, Deco.Ezekro, Sylvinho, Edmilson, Ronaldinho, Jorquela, Gudjohnsen, Eto'o.Oleg, these 13 players have already exceeded half of Barcelona's lineup, if they are all cleaned up.Not only is the team hurt, but how to fill the vacancy is also a big problem.
Even more difficult.Since Laporta pushed the "2010 Project" in the first two years, most of the club's players' contracts will not expire until 2010. Among these 13 players, only Edmir's contract expires after the end of this season. Sen, Sylvinho, Thuram, Ezekro and Pinto are 5.
If the players are unwilling to leave, the club can only fire them, and the price is that they must pay all the players' salaries for the remaining contract period, which will be a huge expense.
Therefore, the list of 13 players must be narrowed down. It can be said that Barcelona can finally clean up 7,8 or [-] players, which can be said to be very good.
Although the club has included Sevilla's Alves, Paulson, Porto's Bruno Alves, Lyon's Benzema, Bayern Munich's Lahm and other players on the signing list, Barcelona's current signings The rescue operation has not made much progress, the main reason being the lack of cash in the club safe.
This is like a person who has no money in his bag. Even if he likes something very much, he has no motivation to go up and bargain with the merchant, because everything is useless.
Sources say that even Norman Foster's revamp of the Camp Nou will be put on hold due to a lack of cash at the Barcelona club.
The Barcelona club can only raise transfer funds in one way now, and that is to sell players, but only a few of these players can bring big income to Barcelona.Barcelona now hopes to get a higher transfer fee from players such as Ronaldinho and Eto'o, but the problem is that there are not many clubs seeking to buy these superstars, and the prices given by the opposing clubs are not high. Very ideal.
Ronaldinho is Milan's froze transfer negotiations, now it seems that the greatest hope has to be pinned on Eto'o.Inter Milan and Tottenham are now pursuing Eto'o. According to "Gazzetta dello Sport", Inter Milan is even willing to bid 4000 million euros for Eto'o. Although the news from the Italian media may not be credible, Eto'o's worth is not low But it is a fact.
In any case, it is basically impossible for Barcelona to spend a lot of money in the transfer market this summer. The club will also adopt a pragmatic approach to introduce the most needed players.Guardiola will also narrow down his cleaning list. For example, according to media reports, Guardiola is very optimistic about the substitute Ezcro. Although Ezkro has very little playing time, Guardiola values his professionalism .
Real Madrid's rebuilding experience in the post-Florentino era will be a model for Barcelona to emulate.After Calderon took over Real Madrid, the team did not undergo a large-scale transformation, but did two important tasks. One was to drive out the team's lack of professionalism. Ronaldo cleans, and the other is to restore the team's fighting spirit. Players train harder, play more seriously, and the locker room is more united. Both old and new players are treated the same, and big-name players are treated equally with ordinary players.
Guardiola may also selectively purge several players who have brought important negative effects to the dressing room, retain the main framework of the team, supplement weak links, but most importantly, restore the morale of the team and the spirit of the club. Fighting spirit.
Barcelona's task of turning from dark times to light looks like a long way to go.
Perhaps it is only because Guardiola is a rookie in the eyes of the outside world that he feels that there are many problems and difficulties.
No one would have guessed that this rookie would be able to reshape Barcelona into the excellence of the Dream Team in a few months! (to be continued~^~)