Hansi Flick has emerged as one of many main candidates to take over Barcelona if Xavi is sacked however the Catalan membership is not going to make a remaining choice till president Joan Laporta joins the coach at a gathering scheduled for subsequent week, sources informed ESPN.
Sources stated that Barça second-team supervisor Rafael Márquez and Thomas Tuchel, who left Bayern Munich on the finish of the season, are additionally on the short-list. Roberto De Zerbi additionally has been linked following his departure from Brighton.
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ESPN revealed Wednesday that Barça sporting director Deco and Bojan, the membership’s soccer coordinator, went to London for a piece journey.
Media experiences in Spain declare that Deco and Bojan went to the English capital to fulfill with Flick and his agent.
ESPN has not been in a position to affirm a face-to-face assembly came about however a number of sources stated that there have been contacts with Flick and that the previous Bayern coach is without doubt one of the “most critical choices” to exchange Xavi within the occasion that he leaves.
In the meantime, different sources informed ESPN that Xavi and his employees are but to obtain any official details about his future however have suspected for some time that they’re residing out their final days on the Barça.
Sources near Xavi have neither confirmed nor denied whether or not the coach will ask to be paid for the remaining 12 months of his contract and insisted that the Catalan coach needs to proceed within the position, with no person but telling them that the membership’s intention is totally different.
Nevertheless, if Xavi asks to be paid for that 12 months, each events must negotiate a monetary settlement and that might complicate Laporta’s choice much more since, as ESPN has reported, the membership’s delicate monetary scenario was one of many the reason why they determined to maintain Xavi within the place.
A method or one other, Laporta has lengthy regarded Flick as a possible Barcelona coach.
In Could 2021, ESPN revealed that Barça contacted Flick’s camp to seek out out his availability however the then Bayern coach had already dedicated to the Germany nationwide crew and the membership due to this fact determined to maintain Ronald Koeman.
Now Flick is and not using a crew and Laporta may make the most of his glorious relationship along with his agent, Pini Zahavi, who additionally represents Robert Lewandowski, to lastly fulfill his need to have a German coach on the Barça bench.
Tuchel, who can be and not using a job, is one other different whereas Márquez remains to be ready for information about his future.
Márquez ends his contract with Barcelona Athletic on June 30 and, as ESPN reported, till just a few days in the past nobody had formally supplied him a renewal within the position.