Press reports revealed a sharp disagreement between Barcelona president Joan Laporta and Deco, the team’s sporting director, regarding the new coach.
Barca is seeking to find a new coach to succeed Xavi Hernandez, who decided to leave the team after the end of the current season.
According to a report by a journalist close to Barcelona, “Javi Miguel,” there is a dispute between Barcelona president Laporta and Deco, the sporting director, regarding the new coach.
Laporta wants to sign Hansi Flick, the former Bayern Munich and Germany coach, while Deco wants Porto’s Portuguese coach Conceicao and strongly nominates him, and the final decision will be made before the end of the season.
The same source stressed that Laporta wants to include a great coach with a stronger personality, such as Jurgen Klopp, Hansi Flick, and Thomas Tuchel, and that we will see if Deco will adapt to the sharp and strict German personality or not.
Press sources confirmed that Deco wants Conceicao because his agent, Jorge Mendes, controls everything that happens inside Barcelona and does not want a coach whose interests conflict with him, which if it happens, Barcelona will pay the price.
On the one hand, Laporta does not want new experiments. He wants a coach whose success rate is guaranteed because the time for experiments has passed, and the one who will be held accountable for the tax of failure is the club president.