Marca: Quique Setién loses the confidence of the Barça 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 challenge that the Cantabrian had by in front was capital, since it had to assume the reins of a powerful team, with the requirement to win titles and without time to prepare it everything by means of a pre-season. Setién Went in in the team showing his personality and, from the start, implanted a distinct diagram to the of his ancestors that based in a line of three central defences, carrileros long and two attackers.

With this tactical drawing, Setién had achieved to adapt his ideas to the Real Betis and thus it also tried to use it in the FC Barcelona with the aim to recover this game of possession and position that the team had lost after drops like the ones of Xavi Hernández or Andrés Iniesta. Alas, the idea of the santanderino did not obtain good results, by what finally had to go back to rectify and bet again by the 4-3-3 classical.

Some months after his arrival, gives the feeling that the FC Barcelona has not achieved to modify in positive any appearance of his game. In fact, the culés were leaders to the stop, but the return to the competition after the pandemia is being disastrous. The culés gave average Ties puncturing against the Seville and can that they gave the another half with the tie of this Saturday in Balaídos.

According to the informations published by the newspaper Marks, the players of the first team of the Barça​ have lost by complete the confidence in Setién. The santanderino has not known enderezar the situation in spite of having three months to prepare new concepts and an important part of the changing room would be dissatisfied so much by the way to direct of Setién as by the fault of rhythm in the trainings.

The players, purportedly dissatisfied

Said media ensures that a lot of footballers culés ignore to Setién when it speaks them, by what the Cantabrian is used to to delegate in his second, Éder Sarabia, the orders to the team. In fact, until Luis Suárez threw him a pulla ensuring that "they are the trainers those that have to analyse" after the tie in Balaídos. In fact, Bartomeu would be abreast of the distance between the technician and the staff, by what could have sospresas to final of season.