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The Catalan newspaper Sport announced the most prominent coach and first choice for Joan Laporta to succeed Xavi Hernandez in coaching Barcelona starting next season, stressing that signing him will not be easy, but rather it will be a difficult challenge for the president.
Xavi Hernandez had announced his departure from Barcelona at the end of the season to relieve the president of the embarrassment after the huge defeat to Villarreal 5-3 last Saturday in La Liga.
The search for coaches has begun to be included in the list of candidates to lead the team next season, the most prominent of whom is German coach Jurgen Klopp, who previously announced that he would leave Liverpool at the end of the current season.
A big challenge to convince him
Klopp will be free at the end of the season . In this sense, Barça should only negotiate his conditions with him. The handicap comes with the word that he gave to the Liverpool leaders to be able to disassociate himself from a contract that linked him to the ‘reds’ until 2026 .
The German gave his word that he would not train in the next exercise . He publicly stated that ” I will not return to an English club even starving .” Therefore he closed the doors to a future in England, but he did not talk about the destinations that would attract his attention in the coming seasons.
At 56 years old he still has plenty of time left and in Liverpool he has earned the status of a top coach . And among the destinations that you might like the most is FC Barcelona.
The steps to follow
The Blaugrana club knows this and will burn all their cards to try to convince him. First, Laporta should seduce Klopp with his usual enthusiasm to take the step of agreeing to Barcelona’s proposal and Liverpool should be understanding of his change of plans .
Klopp considers himself a man of his word and will not train next season unless Liverpool also agree. After nine seasons at Anfield, the German wants to leave with a bang and without breaking the good relationship with both the club’s owners and the fans.
In favor of Barça plays the factor of the attraction that the German feels towards Spain . He has a farm in Mallorca and directing in LaLiga after passing through the Bundesliga and the Premier League would be attractive to him.
The most attractive project
After ruling out training in England, it seems difficult for him to return to the Bundesliga . He closed his time in Dortmund and Bayern Munich will choose to continue with Tomas Tuchel, with a contract until 2025, or go for Xabi Alonso , who is succeeding at Bayer Leverkusen, in addition to being a former player of the Bavarian team.
In France, Luis Enrique’s project at PSG continues and the Italian Serie A has lost a lot of weight in recent years. LaLiga is more powerful and FC Barcelona is a club with global projection.
Laporta and the sports management, headed by Deco, will have to insist strongly to prevent Klopp from castling his decision to take a sabbatical. A very difficult mission, but not impossible.
