Recently, the president of the FC Barcelona, Josep Maria Bartomeu, confirmed in his interviews to 'The Món to RAC 1' and 'The Matí of Catalonia Ràdio' that "Quique Setién will continue, obviously" and, besides, added that "no me arrepiento of the change of Ernesto Valverde. The team needed an impulse and Quique Setién knows our DNA, the model and has brought new airs and new ideas to the team".
But the continuity of Quique Setién in the FC Barcelona is not ensured, neither much less, but it will go closely tied to the paper that the Barcelona team have in the Champions League. According to the informations published by the newspaper Sport, the own trainer santanderino knows the situation and knows that only a big participation in the League of Champions could do him be still in the bench culé.
Nevertheless, the same informations ensure that the FC Barcelona gives him all his support to Quique Setién and that will not contact with any another technical until the team culé have not finalised his participation in the Champions League. The level that show the team in the League of Champions will be absolutely determinant in relation to who will be in the bench the next season.
Results, game, cracks with the changing room...
Since Quique Setién arrived to the FC Barcelona to substitute to Ernesto Valverde, has not found some at all easy circumstances. The Cantabrian arrived with Luis Suárez lesionado of gravity, found with a conflict between Éric Abidal and the players, with big requirements without being able to prepare his team from pre-season and finally with a pandemia that changed the football completely.
It is thus that all what has comported the arrival of Quique Setién has not been optimum. By the moment, the results have not been good because the team culé was deleted of the Glass of the King to hands of the Athletic Club and lost LaLiga Santander in front of the Real Madrid. Besides, the Cantabrian technician neither has been able to do that the FC Barcelona play well to the football, but it has kept the level of game that saw with Ernesto Valverde.
Finally, it is necessary to mention his fault of 'feeling' with the changing room. The 'heavy weights' wanted to that Ernesto Valverde continued and in a lot of cases have not liked the methods of Quique Setién, that even had to summon a meeting of urgency with Leo Messi so that the brecha between players and technical body did not do bigger. By all this, the continuity of the santanderino hangs of a thread and will depend on the Champions League.