KOUNDÉ, CENTRE-BACK OR RIGHT-BACK?
Hansi Flick's plan with Jules Koundé for next season
Hansi Flick is already preparing what FC Barcelona will be like in 2024/2025 and one of the players whose role could be key is Jules Koundé. He has been playing practically as a right back for two years... but the German would like him in the centre of the defence
Hansi Flick Lived a first very bustled week in Barcelona. Already it has begun to work in the planning of the next season, in which the maximum challenge is that the team go back to compete and add titles in his vitrinas after a year in which they remained in 'white'. The trainer Teutonic has found in Deco, sportive director, an ally and already are arguing the main 'novelties' of face to the 2024/2025.
In addition to the possible signings, that will depend on that the Barça can solve his problems with the Fair Play financial, one of the priorities is to have an idea of the role that can have each player of the current staff. One of the names that has been on the table is the one of Jules Koundé, the one who went the second footballer that more minutes added in the last course, by behind Ílkay Gündogan, but whose role in the team is not entirely clear-cut.
The 'doubt' with Koundé
And it is that the Barcelona him ficharon from the Seville, in 2022, so that it led the axis of the defensive saga with Ronald Araújo. That was the big aim with his incorporation, but in front of the big number of drops and urgencies that has had the staff, have been many the occasions in which the international with France has finish playing in the right side. Without going further, of the 48 parties that played in the 2023/2024, 27 of them were in the band.
It is worth it to remember that Koundé had kept a meeting with Xavi Hernández in the summer of 2023 for 'ask him' play like head office; a message that observed. The first commitments played them in the axis of the saga, but since it fell lesionado Alejandro Balde, in January, saw forced to displace to the band so that Joao Cancel played like left side. All the second stretch of the course lived it 'reconverted' a player of band.
Flick Bets by Koundé like head office
The intention of Flick, at least for now, is that the footballer of 25 years can play like head office; something in what it has coincided Deco. A priori, and to fault that there is an agreement with the Manchester City, Joao Cancel will be the attendant to appear in the right. This will cause the debate in the couple of head offices, that up to now there was state conformed by Araújo and Pau Cubarsí. Of face to the season that comes will be the doubt of: it will be headline Koundé or will be by behind the canterano of 17 years?
