The eight reasons for the break between Quique Setién and the FC Barcelona players

The past month of January, the FC Barcelona announced the dismissal of Ernesto Valverde. According to several sectors of the press, from the directive of the club considered that the change had to make in summer, but purportedly the players pleaded so that the Txingurri remained . Finally, after the elimination in the Supercopa of Spain, the Txingurri was ceased to give step to the arrival of Quique Setién to the bench.

The arrival of the Cantabrian had to serve to give cool air to the team and to contribute new ideas in seen to the evident decadence in which it was the team with Ernesto Valverde. Nevertheless, with Quique Setién no only has not solved the problem,​ but it has intensified . By the moment, the Barcelona team has lost the Glass of Rey and LaLiga offering a very poor game.

Besides, it has remained of self-evident the brecha between the technical body directed by Quique Setién and the players of the FC Barcelona. The tuning has not been good and finally the tension between both parts evidence in sentences like the one of Leo Messi when finishing the party against Osasuna: "From January for here all has gone very bad". Justo when it arrived the Cantabrian. 'MD' desvela the reasons of this divorce between trainers and staff.

The reasons of the split Quique Setién-players

• The changes of system. Quique Setién arrived to the FC Barcelona to mount a revolution and wanted to disassemble the classical 4-3-3 to test with other tactical drawings like the 3-5-2 or the 4-4-2. Nevertheless, the footballers did not feel to taste with these changes and the technician santanderino did not take in going back to this 4-3-3 of always. In Villarreal tried it with a 4-3-1-2 successfully, but what came afterwards was a drama.
• The players always have questioned to Quique Setién. Of course, when the technician santanderino arrived beside his technical body decided to apply his libreto so much in the trainings as in the formula to decide the lists of summoned. As 'MD', the footballers "questioned his capacity and orders in the sessions", until finally the tension exploded in Balaídos, where the players criticised him by his approach and the replacements.
• Changes in the trainings. Quique Setién changed the methodology since it arrived to the FC Barcelona, proposing sessions of training of high intensity with few days of rest for the footballers. After the stop by the coronavirus, still intensified more the rhythm, but the fact to having played two parties by week has finish doing that the technicians do not give with the key.
• The management of the minutes of the players. Quique Setién seemed to arrive to the FC Barcelona to revolutionise to the team, but the santanderino has finish using almost always the same vertebral column that Ernesto Valverde but even rotando less. Some controversial decisions that has taken the santanderino have not supported , as it remained visible in Vigo when Luis Suárez accused him after changing him.
• The 'case Arthur Melo'. The FC Barcelona negotiated with the Juventus of Turín the traspaso of Arthur Melo in return of Miralem Pjanic and, when finally oficializó the operation, Quique Setién left to have the Brazilian midfield player. To some players also would have bothered them that the Cantabrian left to have a footballer like Arthur Melo.
• Opinions very distinct. Leo Messi said does months that this FC Barcelona could not win the Champions League. Quique Setién contradicted to the Barcelona captain and east left him fall that he could think more because it had played a lot of more times the competition. Besides, so much 'the flea' as Luis Suárez asked self-criticism whereas the trainer santanderino was more conformista ensuring that the team played well in spite of not having good results.
• Fault of confidence in Quique Setién. The Cantabrian arrived to the FC Barcelona with fame to have a lot of character and the very clear ideas, by what expected more interventionism by his part that the one who had Ernesto Valverde. Nevertheless, in Vigo saw clearly that the players do not trust the indications of his technical body, with images like the one of Leo Messi 'happening' of Eder Sarabia, Ivan Rakitic doing aspavientos in front of the indications or Luis Suárez mounting bronca after being substituted.
• Eder Sarabia does not like. Since they went out to the light the images of the Classical with Eder Sarabia doing comments out of place, the staff has left to have him in consideration. His strong character and his cries also followed present in the trainings, and even carried some conclusive answer of a player asking him respect. It excused, but it is evident that the team no longer trusts he.