BARCELONA – Ronald Koeman praised Barcelona’s “suffering capacity” to win a game that, he warned, would have escaped last season. He expressed his satisfaction with the delivery of the team, ignored all the football criticism for the low Barça football tone … And he expressed, with all the clarity and crudeness, what he expects from the last three days of the market .
“The club knows what we want but I don’t know if we can … Wanting and being able is different,” said the Dutch coach when questioned about his expectations, ruling that he does not close the door to anything more than his applications are known.
“I don’t ask anything from the club. I try to speak clearly understanding the economic situation that exists and there are three days left in which we hope we can strengthen the staff because we need it,” he warned to immediately show another reality: “If not it is possible we will continue to work the same “.
Koeman roars in silence to reinforce the locker room with the physical midfielder who was not Wijnaldum and the striker who accompanies Memphis Depay with solvency, in a position that is currently occupied by Braithwaite and that will be discussed, supposedly, Agüero … But for which he would want an undisputed footballer he understands does not have in the squad.
However, more than in the innings, the speech of the Barça coach was especially forceful this Sunday in terms of departures. He summoned Pjanic and Umtiti. And also to Riqui Puig and Rei Manaj, discarding Collado again. He was also on the Coutinho bench, although, of course, the position of the Brazilian is not the same as that of those, whom, without naming, Koeman invited to make an immediate decision in reference to his march.
“Tomorrow we will talk about this issue but neither for the club, nor for the coach nor for the players this situation is good because you have to have a future where you are,” revealed the coach, ruling that “there are many here who do not they are going to have options to play and it is a very complicated situation.
“It’s not good to individualize … The players and the club know what I’m thinking and that’s enough,” he said dryly, when questioned directly by the ostracism of Riqui Puig, substitute and without minutes for the third day in a row and that if last year it was advanced by Ilaix, a player of a different football character, now it has already been by two young people like Nico and Gavi, who won as much praise as silence receives Riqui.