The journalist Fabricio Romano wrote about this on Twitter with reference to the President of the Catalans Josep Bartomeu, who made a statement on the air of radio COPE.

According to the reporter, former Tottenham coach Mauricio Pchettino, head coach of the Netherlands national team Ronald Koeman and another Barca veteran Xavi, who now works in Qatar with Al-Sadd, can fill the vacancy. Players want to see this specialist at the head of the pomegranate-blue club.

Setien, 61, was appointed coach of Barça on 13 January 2020. Under him, the team took second place in the Spanish championship, letting Real Madrid go ahead, and flew out of the Champions League in the quarter-finals, losing to Bayern with a score of 2: 8.

Earlier it was reported that "Manchester City" is ready to pay any amount for the Argentine striker "Barca" Lionel Messi.