• Koeman on Bartomeu's arrest "When the news came out, I was screwed."

Some may be surprised that, by now,

Ronald Koeman

has not lost the papers.

He was introduced as Barcelona coach on August 19, 2020, five days after the team suffered one of the biggest hot flashes in its history in Lisbon (2-8).

Bartomeu offered him the position hours after the defeat and the Dutchman felt that one of the happiest moments of his life was coming.

On August 20,

Messi

told him that he wanted to leave the club.

Four days later, Koeman took over the phone call by which the club made official

Luis Suárez

that it did not have him.

On September 1, a transfer market was closed in which the coach not only could not start the hiring of a forward (

Depay

), a midfielder (

Wijnaldum

) and a center-back (

Eric Garcia

), but he also saw how he had to give a number from the first team to a Brazilian named

Matheus Fernandes

, who had not even been introduced.

On October 27, Bartomeu and his board resigned so that

Carles Tusquets

joined

the Manager.

While Koeman raised his hand to match his salary, Tusquets went to the microphone to say that he had sold Messi in the summer.

On November 7,

Ansu Fati

, the footballer who had endured the offensive front in the first weeks of the season

, was seriously injured

.

On November 21 it was

Piqué

who fell

.

Also

Sergi Roberto

.

All of them then made room for

Coutinho

in the infirmary.

The team lost the Camp Nou classic (1-3).

He also fell in the Metropolitan (1-0).

He wasted the first place in his continental group when he served a 0-2 (Juventus reached 0-3) and

Mbappé's

PSG

passed him in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 (1-4).

The Super Cup escaped to the rhythm of

Villalibre's

trumpet

.

And in the Copa del Rey, a tournament in which the club put all its hopes, Sevilla took an advantage in the first leg of the semifinals that, until a few days ago, seemed completely insurmountable (2-0).

However, until no one tells him to stop, Koeman feels he must continue to carry the weight of the club on his excruciating ascent to Everest.

"For me Bartomeu was exceptional"

This is the week in which Barcelona has seen how another of its former presidents has slept in a dungeon.

"I'm screwed by Bartomeu, for me he was always an exceptional person," said the Dutchman.

Also the same in which the club will hold elections after four months of absolute misrule.

«We have to wait for the new president.

If I don't see an important future for me, we will have a problem because I have one more year on my contract, "he warned.

An inappropriate package again to face one of the capital games of the season.

If not the most.

Raising the 2-0 against Sevilla tonight -something that the team already did in January 2019 against the same rival with a bulging 6-1 in the quarterfinals of the Cup- and keeping the flame of a title burning would perhaps allow Barcelona to think in something other than its institutional decrepitude.

And also face the final stretch of the League, a competition in which he is now second, with the spirit of someone who only has something to win.

Koeman, very skilled in the human management of a dressing room of extreme complexity and usually right in the meritocracy, has nevertheless had problems with the technical direction of the team.

The approaches chosen have been multiple and it is difficult to notice personality in the game.

However, Koeman has also demonstrated a weak attachment to absolute truths and a constant drive for correction.

Proof of this was the scheme of three centers recovered to assault the Pizjuán (0-2) in the last day of the League.

One of the most convincing games of the season that should serve as a starting point for the Dutchman this Wednesday.

Even more so knowing that

Pedri

has recovered in a jiffy from his muscle injury.

If the canary remains in the starting position, it will be difficult for

Griezmann to

regain a place in the eleven.

Although that, in reality, is already the least of the problems for a coach who has lived in six months the football problems of six lives.

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