Who should be Barça's next coach after Lucho?

Who should be Barça's next coach after Lucho?

  • Lucho should stay

    Votes: 8 5.2%

  • Unzue

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Eusebio

    Votes: 2 1.3%

  • Koeman

    Votes: 9 5.8%

  • Valverde

    Votes: 6 3.9%

  • Sampaoli

    Votes: 112 72.3%

  • Other(who?)

    Votes: 17 11.0%
  • Total voters
    155
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BBZ8800

BBZ8800

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I would rather have Valverde than Tuchel.

I am afraid of these coaches who play a nice football, but without winning trophies.

Not that Valverde's teams are playing beautiful or winning trophies either, though :)

But still, between Valverde and Tuchel, give me a good old Valverde.
 
Cule Finn

Cule Finn

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I would be pretty happy if we got Valverde. His Bilbao team has been playing nice football for many years. Against Barca they've pretty much always been brave and aggressive.

No Unzue please. i fear nothing would change.
 
Messi983

Messi983

Senior Member
BBZ8800 said:
I would rather have Valverde than Tuchel.

I am afraid of these coaches who play a nice football, but without winning trophies.

Not that Valverde's teams are playing beautiful or winning trophies either, though :)

But still, between Valverde and Tuchel, give me a good old Valverde.
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Well, he did won a Spanish Supercup which was first trophy for Bilbao in 30 years.

With their Basque only philosophy it's really hard to see them doing much better even if they'd have Pep or Simeone as a manager unless they are lucky to get really great generation of players like they had a few years ago when they played great under Bielsa. Now they still have a good team but it's hard to replace players like Llorente, Javi Martinez, Herrera,...
 
putogusiluz8

putogusiluz8

The Pale One
"At Olympiakos, he took over a team that had conceded 27 goals in the previous season and won the league by conceding only 14 goals in his first year there.

At Athletic, a team that had conceded 65 goals in La Liga under Bielsa, let in only 39 under Valverde - going from 12th to fourth in the process."
 
bismp

bismp

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putogusiluz8 said:
"At Olympiakos, he took over a team that had conceded 27 goals in the previous season and won the league by conceding only 14 goals in his first year there.

At Athletic, a team that had conceded 65 goals in La Liga under Bielsa, let in only 39 under Valverde - going from 12th to fourth in the process."
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As a greek(though not an Olympiakos fan) i'll have to agree.

Olympiakos has been completely dominant the last decades,having won like 15 league titles in 17 years or something.However,they played by far their best football under Valverde.They were a legitimately good team back then.They pressed really well and played beautiful football.

I don't know if he can handle our superstars,but he is a good coach.Plus he has had a small tenure as a player at Barca iirc.
 
Leo_Messi

Leo_Messi

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Someone who is capable of making the necessary but tough and likely unpopular changes. Someone who has the respect of the players. A great motivator and a tactically flexible coach.

Sampaoli ticked all the right boxes but of course our useless board was either too slow to react or preferred the "safer and less revolutionary option" in either Valverde or Unzué.

Yes, theoretically speaking we are only a few world-class transfers from becoming the best team again but we are at a crossroad and the challenges are as big as those in the summer 2014. IMO, we are in need of similar changes in the squad. I am afraid that cosmetic changes will not be enough.

Anyway I will give Valverde the benefit of the doubt but before the next season begins the board and Robert will have to do a much better job than they did last year.

Hopefully Messi, as rumored, has demanded serious changes for him to extend the contract. That gives me some hope of the board not screwing up too much.
 
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Devils

Devils

Senior Member
I've warmed up more to the idea of having Valverde recently. It will be nice to have a manager who is very experienced and can organize the team tactically.

After the Tata and Lucho experiments, it's good we are going with a safer option this time around.

No disrespect to Unzue, he has put in a lot of hard work into our club over the years, but he doesn't belong in the manager position. At least not yet. He should go manage elsewhere and show he his capable first.
 
Messi983

Messi983

Senior Member
Right now I'm about 90% certain it will be Valverde. One good thing about him that I haven't seen mentioned much is that he'll most likely give a chance to La Masia kids.
 
God Serena

God Serena

New member
Messi983 said:
Right now I'm about 90% certain it will be Valverde. One good thing about him that I haven't seen mentioned much is that he'll most likely give a chance to La Masia kids.
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Who knows. We thought Lucho would give La Masia kids a chance and he even started to, but it didn't last very long and now the thought of Lucho giving a La Masia player a chance is laughable.
 
TornAndFrayed

TornAndFrayed

Banned
Yea, I remember Lucho himself felt as a safer, more pragmatic option, and he ended up destroying the midfield and signing expensive scrubs.

Sampaoli, I feel, was always going to have a very difficult 2nd half of the season, with his relatively thin squad and two-months wonders like that little bitch Nasri. Like Bielsa at OM. Or his Athletic side after they hammered Man Utd.

Even Jardim had the same problem, if anything it's impressive that Monaco has kept winning in Ligue 1 because they have been exhausted for the past 6 weeks.
 
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