Koeman diagnoses Barça: Change of cycle, future solutions, Messi, De Jong...

Ronald Koeman follows being in the orbit of the FC Barcelona, although it has confirmed that it will not be his trainer in the short term. The Dutch has confessed in an extensive interview for the newspaper 'Sport', in which it has made a wide analysis of the sportive actuality of the club and no only has spoken of personal questions. Further of his candidature to the bench, to which does not close him the door, has 'wetted' on several subjects.

Questioned by the current season, the technician does not see it bad, but has underlined that touches to assume what sucede in the Camp Nou. Under his point of view, this staff has to be taken into account by his quality, experience and results, but the irregularity that pursues it from does too time is reveladora. In these moments, think that the ideal would be to leave to a side the lamentaciones and put to work in the future.

His diagnostic has been rotundo, and signals that the cycle of the team is coming to an end: "it Has had to all, parties very good and others more toneless. It keeps on being a big team with players very good, therefore it is the leader of the League. The Barça no longer is the same of does some years because it neither has to the players that had before. Of that vertebral column only are Hammered, Busquets and Messi and the three happen of the 30 years".

"It is law of life. It happened him to the 'Dream Team' of the Barça and to the Dutch selection of the 88 with Go Suffice, Gullit, Rijkaard and I same that remained champion of Europe. At all it is eternal and it is necessary to know renew. And sometimes it is necessary to understand that to go back to dominate, before have to happen some years by the desert", has reflexionado, insisting in that this is not a full stop, but it has to be a point and to aside.

"The Barça no longer is the same of does some years because it neither has to the players that had before"

For the one of Zaandam, the culés have two problems, the first, "of intensity": "it like You or no, today the big teams play to a very high rhythm the ninety minutes. And to the Barça costs him keep this regularity. We saw it in the famous party in front of the Liverpool, but also in the Supercopa in front of the Athletic. The Barça was upper eighty minutes, desconectó the last ten and the Athletic, more intense and fresco, won him".

"And neither it dominates the parties like antaño. In this appearance the Barça has to go back to his signals of identity, because it forms part of his 'DNA'". In spite of that the last months have recovered good habits, like the interest of Quique Setién in going back to the game of possession and with a character marcadamente offensive, the seleccionador warns: "The Barça always has to have the control, but a more effective control".

To Koeman also have asked after him Johan Cruyff, since recently it participated in a homage: "I Think that it would say something very resembled what I have said him, that it is necessary to recover the personality in the game. But it is not so simple, because here always command the results. He also was subjected to the dictatorship of the marker. Although, as it said always, if you play well it is more likely that finish winning".

Koeman recalca That it is necessary to think in the Barça 'post-Messi'

Speaking of proper names, Koeman also has referred to Leo Messi, and has recalcado that touches to prepare a project without a key piece like the captain: "Leo is the best of all time and with difference. But it is human and no always will be able to be the solution to all the evils. The Barça has to go preparing this relief of gradual form, no of a day for another. Without Messi at all will go back to be the same. It is necessary to assume it".

Finally, it has launched a 'wink' to Frenkie of Jong, of the one who thinks that will triumph weigh that it does not play in his ideal position. "Can do it. This year it is being of transition for him, as it occurred me to me when fiché by the Barça in 1989. It is a very intelligent boy and very endowed for the football. It goes to triumph in the Camp Nou, sure. It prejudices him that it was not playing in his natural place, as it did in the Ajax", has valued.