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Roberto Martínez in a party of the selection of Belgium

It SOUNDS LIKE SUBSTITUTE FOR ERNESTO VALVERDE

The warning of Roberto Martínez after the interest of the Barça in his signing

Published:28/05/2019 - 16:09h

Updated:28/05/2019 - 16:09h

The FC Barcelona follows surrounded of rumours that aim to the possible dismissal of Ernesto Valverde, and Roberto Martínez has consolidated like one of the big alternative for the bench. The Catalan has pronounced on the subject and has launched a warning

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After a bitter end of season, the future of Ernesto Valverde in the FC Barcelona has heated , and do not cease the rumours that speak of a possible change of course of the Barcelona project that would include a relief in the bench. The club has denied the imminent cessation of the trainer but follows looking for solutions, and has not closed the door to the contracting of a new technician.

In the City Condal already would handle a long list of alternatives, and one of the favourite would be Roberto Martínez. After going through Swansea, Wigan Athletic and Everton, the one of Balaguer is now seleccionador of Belgium, combined with which made a big paper in the World-wide past of Russia and heaved until the third square of the championship.

The newspaper 'Het Laatste Nieuws' has questioned to the Catalan by the interest barcelonista, and his answer has not gone further of a warning. "I do not give him the himself to anybody without having spoken before with Bart and Mehdi", has aimed, doing reference to Bart Verhaeghe and Mehdi Bayat, president and vice-president of the technical Commission of the Belgian Real Union of Societies of Football (URBSFA), the equivalent to the Belgian Federation.

The quoted half, that describes his reply of "críptica", underlines that the only true is that any one that want to do with his services will have to negotiate with the URBSFA, with which is linked until 2020 and with which already prepares his next aim, the Eurocopa of 2020, another tournament for which exist big expectations given the evolution of the team from his arrival in 2016.

In this sense, the newspaper 'Sport' affirms that they would not exist big obstacles to convince to the ilerdense, that besides does not have clause of penalty and would not have obstacles of his upper, whenever, as it has recalcado in several occasions, the negotiations boarded of direct form and with a meeting to time and in no uncertain terms.

Roberto Martínez already sounded for the Real Madrid

The posture of Roberto Martínez is very similar to which kept when it sounded for the Real Madrid, that had him between his options when it did without Julen Lopetegui. Finally, Santiago Solari was promoted and occupied his place, but the Catalan did not leave carry by the speculations and kept the calm. "The speculations, the rumours, can not them control. The football is on the present", manifested then, reiterating his commitment with the selection of Belgium.

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