Luis Enrique to leave Barcelona at end of the season

SteveJ said:
Wenger has a perceived prestige about him. Added to his financial acumen, his obvious intelligence makes him a prestigious signing (in the eyes of other clubs at least); from their perspective, it'd be like buying a classic car. The footballing aspect is almost an afterthought..which should be a warning sign to those clubs that would like to sign him.
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I like Wenger. I'd like to see him win La Liga and get to manage Messi for a few years before he retires (Wenger).

I kinda feel like he deserves it.

I also think he'd do well there - imagine his current Arsenal team with Messi instead of Ozil, Suarez instead of Giroud and Neymar instead of Iwobi...
 
YouOnlyLiveTwice said:
Maybe Barcelona and Pochettino? :)
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Owen played for us despite being Liverpool "legend" and you could probably name plenty, DDG might end up in madrid, I don't think Pochettino would mind to take over one of the best clubs in the world football, and for Barcelona it's perfect fit
 
This has come at the wrong time for Pep unfortunately. His next destination after City will be PSG or Juventus. Then he might consider returning to Barca but I get the feeling he wants to win league titles in the big leagues around Europe and staying at one team doesn't match his ambitions.

The job is probably too big for Wenger. I'm sure he'd love to play champagne football again but the politics there would probably kill him in the end. Too much expectation.

I'm sure Klopp would love the job but I suspect they'll go with some Spanish coach most of us have heard very little about but has been working wonders in La Liga with a smaller team.
 
adexkola said:
What has he won, apart from Copa America? I don't see how his resume is much different from Poch, apart from style
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He's won the Chilean league as well hasn't he? And the Copa Sudamericana (I'm trying to clarify online but their league and continental systems are so complex I'm not 100% sure). Not to mention he's currently involved in a realistic title challenge currently.
 
Laudrup and Figo left them for us. Luis Enrique left us for them. Big difference
 
I think it will be Jose, after winning the Europa League and going on a high!
 
PedroMendez said:
Sampaoli would be perfect for them, but they can feck off. I hope Sevilla is not even thinking about letting him go. Valverde would be the risk-averse choice, but in my opinion not the best fit. Koeman or Paco Jemez would be a bit of a joke. Marcelino would be imo a good choice.
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The biggest question marks over Sampaoli and Marcelino would be their ability to handle MSN. Sampaoli seems to work with meticulous tactical planning, not sure how they'd respond to that. How is he running HR with you guys?
 
royboy16 said:
Why don't they like him ?
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Something along the lines of they liked him as a player but they never really liked him as a person. Too much Dutch confidence and he never really drank the Barcelona kool-aid. I think Koeman is very much his own man and cults don't like that.
 
Why do you ignore Laurent Blanc (former Barcelona player) contacted recently by Barcelona?
 
Javi said:
The biggest question marks over Sampaoli and Marcelino would be their ability to handle MSN. Sampaoli seems to work with meticulous tactical planning, not sure how they'd respond to that. How is he running HR with you guys?
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I don't think that he'd have a problem with MSN. He is one of the few coaches who have their own vision and the ability to get the players buy into it. It looks a bit like Barca still have the shadow of Pep looming over them and every manager that came after is just a lesser copy. Luis Enrique might have changed a couple of things, but he struggles to really develop the team. Sampaoli is imo one of the few managers who'd have the potential to really make the team his own by implementing his own interpretation of possession based football. I think MSN would really enjoy playing for him.
 
I'd love to see Wenger go there and win La Liga. Just to see Ty saying "I told you so" to Claude and the hilarity that would ensue.
 
Thankfully, Eusebio has ruled himself out

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Jumping ship just before all the major rebuilding work needs doing, a very Guardiola style decision that is.

I'd honestly discard any work Enrique did in the same bracket as Brendan Rodgers at Celtic at the moment, both inherited insane squads for the standard of their respective leagues. It would have been criminal for Enrique to have had zero success with the players he had at his disposal.
 
Criminal for Lucho & Pep to have success, criminal for Tata to fail - guess the logic is consistent anyway as Barcelona are supposed to win regardless of who is coaching or the tactics. Carry on.
 
I wonder what's going through his mind now. Would he take back his resignation? :lol:
If Barca actually do end up winning the treble again which is a possibility, does our resident Barca fans think he should stay?
 
MullerUtd said:
I wonder what's going through his mind now. Would he take back his resignation? :lol:
If Barca actually do end up winning the treble again which is a possibility, does our resident Barca fans think he should stay?
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This could be a case of everybody pulling together to give Lucho the best send off possible. Hopefully, the send off Lucho gets is Heynckes like not Pellegrini like.
 
Talking about the coaching game, Enrique leaves with his head high and job well done. They're on their way of sneaking back in La Liga and played one of the finest Champions-League matches in the history of the game.

I don't know who's responsible for the recent last transfers (i'm only impressed with Suarez btw), but someone isn't doing his job properly.

Barcelona need to get their next transfers working, otherwise they'll be in trouble. There's already no Dani Alves anymore and Iniesta is fading away.
 
Mourinhonista said:
Talking about the coaching game, Enrique leaves with his head high and job well done. They're on their way of sneaking back in La Liga and played one of the finest Champions-League matches in the history of the game.

I don't know who's responsible for the recent last transfers (i'm only impressed with Suarez btw), but someone isn't doing his job properly.

Barcelona need to get their next transfers working, otherwise they'll be in trouble. There's already no Dani Alves anymore and Iniesta is fading away.
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Their transfers are been underwhelming indeed. Umtiti looks error prone. Digne doesn't look any great shakes. All the right backs have been underwhelming. Andre Gomes has been terrible. The striker they signed doesn't seem to fit them. Yet they signed noone as proper backup for the widemen. Only Denis Suarez looks impressive to me.

They appear to just be signing quantity these days.
 
Umtiti is error prone? They haven't lost a league match with him starting - I'd challenge anyone to name a better defensive signing for the season throughout Europe, slotting into the starting back 4 for Barcelona. The Frenchman has exceeded expectations, only 23 years old

Gomes is a victim of the poor tactics of Luis Enrique, the next coach will hopefully give him a proper role. RB has to be sorted, this is an epic fail from the board, how much Lucho is to blame for this is unclear

As for attackers, it's very true - the Paco for Munir move alone was incomprehensible, but wide depth is nonexistent
 
So he has won back to back leagues
Back to back copa del ray
Haa won 1 champions league
And could still win the treble this year.

If he wins either the league or the European cup then good luck to whoever follows him because they will almost certainly be viewed as a failure in comparison... and if he wins another treble...
Treble, double, treble then he might finally get some respect?
 
I know it was all or nothing lasts night but that's one of the bravest tactical set ups I've ever seen. Suicidal pressing. Beautiful game of football.
 
FCBarca said:
Umtiti is error prone? They haven't lost a league match with him starting - I'd challenge anyone to name a better defensive signing for the season throughout Europe, slotting into the starting back 4 for Barcelona. The Frenchman has exceeded expectations, only 23 years old

Gomes is a victim of the poor tactics of Luis Enrique, the next coach will hopefully give him a proper role. RB has to be sorted, this is an epic fail from the board, how much Lucho is to blame for this is unclear

As for attackers, it's very true - the Paco for Munir move alone was incomprehensible, but wide depth is nonexistent
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Think Gomes just isn't very good TBF. Hasn't impressed me anytime I've seen him, even before he joined Barca. For a team like Barca who have always had such quality midfielders Gomes isn't good enough, clear upgrade needed.
 
Womp said:
Think Gomes just isn't very good TBF. Hasn't impressed me anytime I've seen him, even before he joined Barca. For a team like Barca who have always had such quality midfielders Gomes isn't good enough, clear upgrade needed.
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All I think looking at him is 'tidy' fair enough every barca player is tidy but he doesn't seem to have a lot going on after that.
 
amolbhatia50k said:
Their transfers are been underwhelming indeed. Umtiti looks error prone. Digne doesn't look any great shakes. All the right backs have been underwhelming. Andre Gomes has been terrible. The striker they signed doesn't seem to fit them. Yet they signed noone as proper backup for the widemen. Only Denis Suarez looks impressive to me.

They appear to just be signing quantity these days.
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Umtiti won 5 headers, had 2 key passes, 3 interceptions and with 73 passes played had a 90% success rate against PSG.
You didn't say otherwise, but just for the record, yesterday he looked good to me.

Umtiti seems to be a good all-rounder, who especially wins you headers. But if there aren't many headers to win, the opponent puts him under huge amounts of pressure with good technical players all around, i'm not sure i'd really trust him. All in all, Umtiti is a lot better than the likes Mathieu, but in my view Barcelona could have someone better as a starter.

Luis Suarez, Rakitic, Ter Stegen, all three have in common that they've made Barcelona's starting line up a lot stronger. Maybe the likes of Umtiti and Denis Suarez can become an integral part of the team, but the other guys have been disappointing, IMO. Barcelona have wasted so much money on 'average' players in the last years, it's a bit City-esque.

Should have gone for the juggalo, e.g. Pogba, Boateng or Alaba, IMO.
 
I've criticised him a lot, and I don't think they were exceptional in their football yesterday (apart from their pressing and mental strength) but he deserves immense credit for the 343 that made the pressing possible, and managed to hide their weak flanks too.
 
Mitchell Nicholas said:
This could be a case of everybody pulling together to give Lucho the best send off possible. Hopefully, the send off Lucho gets is Heynckes like not Pellegrini like.
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If he does win the treble for you guys again, surely he deserves to be called the greatest manager in the history of Barcelona? I know this is a controversial opinion and many will disagree with me but every time he faced a setback/criticism, he bounced back brilliantly.

I don't even recall any managers winning the treble twice, not even Sir Alex for us.

You guys are now the favourites to win the Champions League, nailed on for the Copa Del Rey and are evens to win La Liga.
 
MullerUtd said:
If he does win the treble for you guys again, surely he deserves to be called the greatest manager in the history of Barcelona? I know this is a controversial opinion and many will disagree with me but every time he faced a setback/criticism, he bounced back brilliantly.

I don't even recall any managers winning the treble twice, not even Sir Alex for us.

You guys are now the favourites to win the Champions League, nailed on for the Copa Del Rey and are evens to win La Liga.
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Success wise he'd have to be one of the best. Many want to use his Roma tenure as the accurate reflection of his coaching abilities.Rightly or wrongly the common, popular theory is that his success is down the MSN combination. I think that's a tad harsh. Rafa Benitez's Real Madrid tenure proved that you can have graet players but that's no guarantee of success. No dud manager wins a treble.
 
Mitchell Nicholas said:
Success wise he'd have to be one of the best. Many want to use his Roma tenure as the accurate reflection of his coaching abilities.Rightly or wrongly the common, popular theory is that his success is down the MSN combination. I think that's a tad harsh. Rafa Benitez's Real Madrid tenure proved that you can have graet players but that's no guarantee of success. No dud manager wins a treble.
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Stefan Kovacs says hello.

He isn't a dud manager but he isn't a coach that espouses Cruijffian principles. He turned Barcelona from a team that espoused the highest level of the positional game espoused by Lord Cruijff, into a counter attacking team and plays ugly football. The team is too open and luckily for him Cavani missed 2 clear cut chances and Di Maria fluffed his chip.

When you are the coach of a super team you will more that han likely fall into trophies.
 
Lets not overrate the positional game as the best way to play football. Its a nice system but as all other systems it has its flaws. Luis Enrique was actually forced to abandon the typical Barca way because it became uneffective in time. At least with the players at Barca at the moment. And winning the treble with the new way proved him right. His problem is that this new way has its flaws also and he is unable to fix them. Thats way he is leaving.
 
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