• Juvenil A. El Barça dismisses Víctor Valdés
  • Reasons: The real reasons for the dismissal of Víctor Valdés

This Monday, the club gave the final folder to what was the chronicle of a death announced. Since the club decided to remove him from office, it was very clear that the days of Victor Valdés at the head of the youth team A were numbered. The confirmation of his dismissal was the end point of a particularly convulsive trajectory, with a series of facts that the entity has understood as inadmissible tone outputs that, in the end, have ended up overflowing the vessel. His relief will be the hitherto maximum responsible for youth B, Franc Artiga .

The staging of his dismissal was icy. Only the person in charge of Human Resources was present to deliver the letter. Neither the president, Josep Maria Bartomeu , the great supporter of his signing, nor Patrick Kluivert , director of training football, were present. The former goalkeeper, as they comment from their closest environment, is very disappointed. And worried. He has felt abandoned in the midst of what he understands as chaos and considers that he was never fully welcomed in his return.

He never had a feeling with Kluivert. In addition, they reiterate that he only missed one of the technical meetings he had to attend because he had an appointment with Bartomeu that the president did not attend. The worst, from their point of view, however, was to try to impose alignments and game patterns. Understand the latter as something flexible, which must adapt to each game. And of course, he denies that he had problems with Ilaix , although he did not like the player bypassing him after he decided not to align him in a match. Right now, he values ​​the possibility of making a statement public or giving a press conference to explain his version of events.

Valdés, one of the key players in that Barça who, in the hands of Pep Guardiola , became the most successful in the history of the entity, right now he has no place in the club. A situation that, curiously, for one reason or another, has also ended up affecting some of his teammates who, like him, were in turn part of that dream set after passing through the lower categories of the Barcelona entity.

Other cases

Only a few weeks ago, the great captain of that team, Carles Puyol , decided to finally decline the invitation of the president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, to become the new sports director of the entity. A position that, since the dismissal of Pep Segura as general sports manager, last summer, is still vacant. Eric Abidal maintains his position as technical secretary.

Puyol, in fact, already left the organization chart of the club in 2015, after being for a few months attached to the sports direction held by Zubizarreta . Demonstrations by the former goalkeeper led Bartomeu to dismiss him from his post and, immediately after, the former defender submitted his resignation. The former central, in addition, is not the only one that, for the moment, does not consider rejoining the structure of the Barça entity. Xavi Hernández , who has definitely hung up his boots after playing for a while in Qatar, prefers to train as a coach in that same country rather than considering the possibility of returning.

Cesc Fàbregas , for a long time the great desired by Barça and Real Madrid, left Camp Nou three years after his return almost through the back door, after seeing how many followers were disappointed by his performance. He went to Chelsea and is now part of Monaco. Andrés Iniesta , while, despite having a life contract, preferred to end his stage at the Barca club to understand that he was not 100% physically and mentally to continue to perform at his best. He currently plays in the Japanese Vissel Kobe.

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