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Quique Setién and Josep Maria Bartomeu, during a press conference

WILL CONTINUE SETIÉN IN THE BENCH?

Bartomeu won't advance the elections and will gather with Setién this Friday

Published:17/07/2020 - 13:10h

Updated:17/07/2020 - 17:35h

The president of the FC Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu, has foreseen to gather this same Friday with Quique Setién to know at first hand his impressions and state of mind

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The maximum mandator of the FC Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu, does not have foreseen to advance the elections to the presidency, programmed for the summer of 2021, and yes will see with Quique Setién in the next hours to know at first hand the impressions of the trainer and his state of spirit after the hecatombe of the FC Barcelona this past Thursday in front of Osasuna, the guinda to an end of disastrous League.

Leo Messi signalled clearly to the bench this Thursday at night with his statements, when it ensured that "of January to here" the performance of the team "was very bad", and that had paid the consequences losing a League that, by the way, the Barça led with a light advantage on the Real Madrid when the Cantabrian technician took the reins of the team.

To three weeks so that it play the turn of eighth of final of the Champions League, to day of today is a mystery if Quique Setién will be still in the bench to the hour to receive to the Naples, or if it will be another technician the one who assume his relief at the head of the team. The Barça will defend the 1-1 of Saint Paolo, but Messi already alerted yesterday to the barcelonismo: "we Go to have to change a lot of, because if no the party in front of the Naples go it to lose also".

For now Bartomeu does not want to take decisions in hot, and the most likely is that Setién was in the Barcelona bench the next 8 August. From here, everything will depend on if the Barça remains deleted or follows advancing rounds in League of Champions. If it remains it was at first, it will be almost impossible that the Cantabrian was the trainer of the Barça at the beginning of the next season 2020-21.

Quique Setién, every time with fewer supports

Although it does few days Setién showed sure that it would train to the Barça the next course, this Thursday at night did not have it so clear in press conference, after the defeat in front of Osasuna. "I do not know it, I expect", it answered to the journalists when they wanted to know if it saw in the bench the next 8 August, to the hour to receive to the group partenopeo in League of Champions.

With agreement until 2022, Setién will not be sacked this Friday neither neither foresees that like this it was, a priori, in the next days. However, it is not any secret that every time has fewer supports so much in the managerial board as, especially, in the changing room culé. The situation every time is more complex, and it will be necessary to see if it hits , or no, with the decisions that take .