Barcelona: Xavi, Gallardo, Roberto Martínez and Pirlo, the pros and cons in choosing their new coach

Date to date on Barcelona further deepens his sports crisis – inherited from the institutional one – and in Barcelona there is already talk of replacement options to occupy the position of coach of Ronald Koeman. Names like Xavi Hernández and Marcelo gallardo it sounds again at the Camp Nou.

After the defeat to Benfica in the Champions League, Barcelona took it upon themselves to ensure that they would not make any hasty decisions. It has been reported that After that, comes the date for FIFA. And he will take advantage of it to make decisions.

They are not the only options. In fact, Andrea Pirlo is another sounding coach, while Robert Martinez, a Spanish coach for the Belgium national team, is another name ringing in the offices. The concrete thing is that Ronald Koeman, game by game, is more out of the club.

According to Mundo Deportivo, these are the strongest options available at Barcelona. However, there are certain contradictions between Joan Laporta and her board of directors. For the president of the club, the name is Robert Martínez, for the directors, Xavi Hernández.

However, and not for the first time, Marcelo Gallardo is also an option. In Argentina they assure that there was already a communication between Barza and the current River Plate coach.

THE CANDIDATES

There is a dilemma in the culé store. If they bet on the identity that the club seeks to recover, under the nostalgia of what was achieved with Pep Guardiola, or bet on a strong hand that directs the course in this first season without Lionel Messi.

Under the first criterion, it would be an important figure in the dressing room.

However, his only experience is having led only Al-Saad of Qatar. In principle, the ex-footballer has shown his desire to lead Barcelona. “Hopefully,” he declared last February, when he was already related to the club.

For Laporta Xavi it ​​is not the right option. Even a while ago he declared that the path for the ex-footballer must be

Roberto Martínez is the most experienced coach, with more than 14 years directing with experience at Everton between 2013 and 2016, until reaching the Belgium team, which he maintains as number 1 in the FIFA ranking, being third in the World Cup in Russia 2018.

It is the name that Laporta uses and in Belgium they even talk about rapprochements between both parties, but to be finalized after the final of the Four of the Nations League, which runs from October 7 to 10.

For Marcelo Gallardo, arriving at Barcelona would mean leaving River Plate where it has been since 2014 and has lifted twelve titles. According to ESPN, Marcelo Gallardo has already been communicated, and the Argentine coach’s environment would have responded that now it is not possible, that the link could only be established in January.

Pirlo may be the fourth option, but despite the fact that his style is close to what Barza wants, possession and elaborate starts, he combines two other cons: little experience – he only directed Juventus – and lack of knowledge of what which is the culé intimacy.

For Laporta, the Italian’s option is the strongest according to his personal taste and because the ex-footballer would be an ‘external agent’ who would free himself from the pressures that exist within the club. Without the internal influence, Pirlo could work more freely.

It is time for decisions at Barcelona and the name of the new coach must already be in the Laporta offices to begin to address this crisis. Two defeats in the Champions League, without even making a shot on goal.