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One of the priority matters right now at Barça will be to find a guaranteed replacement for Xavi Hernández. Joan Laporta and Deco have not yet agreed, and while the president bets on bringing in a coach with experience in the elite, the sports director prefers to opt for a friend with whom there are no coexistence problems, a problem that he has had with the Terrassa coach. This is the reason why he recommends Thiago Motta, Rafa Márquez or Sergio Conceiçao.
But the top Barça manager remains firm in his idea, and has two clear candidates, who are Roberto de Zerbi and Hans-Dieter Flick , while Imanol Alguacil or Michel Sánchez seem to have been ruled out. And there are four players in the squad who have recommended opting for the option that the German manager has as the protagonist. Starting with Robert Lewandowski, who knows him best.
He joined him in the ranks of Bayern Munich, and was the coach who managed to bring out his best version. It is no coincidence that it was with ‘Hansi’ with whom he destroyed all kinds of goalscoring records in the Bundesliga, and conquered the only Champions League he has in his palmares. In addition, he was able to win The Best award in 2020, and if the Ballon d’Or had been awarded, no one has any doubt that he would also have been chosen.
Now that the ‘9’ is not living his best moment, he hopes that the ex-TSG Hoffenheim player will arrive at the Camp Nou, and can recover his best level. And Marc-André ter Stegen and Ilkay Gündogan have also advised Laporta not to have doubts when betting on his compatriot , with whom they worked in the selection. Both have a good relationship, and speak positively of their working method. But it is the Germanic Turk who should be most grateful.
And it is that Flick chose him as the new captain of the national team, after the resignation of Toni Kroos and Thomas Müller, and the ‘punishment’ of Manuel Neuer.
Frenkie de Jong also believes that Flick is the profile that Barça needs
Finally, we find Frenkie de Jong, who believes that with Flick he could find his ideal role to succeed at Barça. Because it reminds him a lot of the profile of Erik Ten Hag, who managed to turn the midfielder into one of the best on the planet when he was at Ajax in Amsterdam.
Source: El Nacional
