The Barça from Koeman He has overcome the week of the three pains with a note —two victories and one defeat— and yet the feeling is that the team is still not playing well, with more doubts than certainties. Some injured are recovered and others are lost, and in that calculation Koeman takes refuge to justify a level that he never reaches. The two decades of excellence that FC Barcelona lived through have educated our palate and now, when results are the only salvation, everything knows little. The decision of Laporta confirming the coach places us in mediocrity, where the occasional defeat is readily accepted by virtue of a young team that has to grow. The problem is that the essence of Koeman’s football – his proposal at a tactical and physical level – does not have much room for improvement, and it requires the fan to get used to the dynamics of the second-ranked player, something they do not know.
In recent years, coaches have revolutionized soccer. Pep Guardiola was a Prometheus who stole fire from a style and brought it to Munich, where it provoked the reaction of the local sages. Today the level is marked by names like Klopp, Tuchel, Nagelsmann, Flick, Guardiola himself or the Dutch Have hag. Suddenly there are a series of coaches who have been left out of the game, clinging to old concepts, closer to the dogmatic teacher than the visionary learner. Ancelotti It is one of them, Pochettino Also, but Koeman represents like no one that old-fashioned air, slow of reflections. What’s more, one senses that his pride forces him to defend a diffuse idea of football, which is based more on individual talent than on the whole, and that also with defeats he hesitates and becomes resentful. This is the only way to understand the ostracism of Riqui Puig, or changes of opinion regarding Dest, Demir or Nico: a forcefulness destined to appease his own doubts and to hide the lack of ideas. The worst thing is that, seeing its trajectory, when Bartomeu That drift signed him, it was already a reality that could be perfectly intuited.
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