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As good as this season has been, I expect us to buy players more suited to the 3-4-3 and 3-4-2-1 formations. That means getting quick defenders who can get forward - like Rose and Walker.
Kyle Walker-Peters might be one, but think we need to find more suited players in the summer.
So, Luis Enrique has confirmed he's leaving Barcelona in the summer.
STAY AWAY.
I'm hoping they would think Poch is to much of a risk as he hasn't won anything yet, maybe if we won the PL last season they might have been more keen.... every cloud and all I guess!
But I really really hope he does not leave, as I could see him taking half the team with him if he did!
So, Luis Enrique has confirmed he's leaving Barcelona in the summer.
STAY AWAY.
Barcelona's last five managers:
Luis Enrique (Never won anything before going to Barcelona)
Gerardo Martino (Won the most)
Tito Vilanova (Never won anything before going to Barcelona)
Pep Guardiola (Never won anything before going to Barcelona)
Frank Riijkard (Never won anything before going to Barcelona)
Who was the least successful out of all of them? The guy who had won the most trophies.
I think what helps in our favour is that three of the last four managers had history with the club whereas Pochettino has history with their rivals. Money and trophies does talk though and if Barcelona were to give Pochettino free reigns over bringing youth through, playing free flowing football and getting the best out of players, he is the perfect candidate.
didnt realise this with the last managers at Barcelona, let's just hope Poch would rather build a legacy at spurs!
I'd actually love to see that...or Wenger.
I agree 100%.I don't think the Espanyol-Barça thing is anything like as important as we would like it to be. FCB regard them almost like we'd regard QPR, it's probably mutual at an institutional level. As far as the fans go, Espanyol's closest team is Madrid, but I'd say that in a hypothetical fight to hire him, Pochettino would be a thousand times more likely to join FCB than RM.
Espanyol have sought to distance themselves from the old anti-Catalanista element, rebadging themselves a decade or so back as Real Club Deportiu Espanyol (the Catalan spelling, although they had to invent the word Deportiu in Catalan in order to maintan the RCD bit) after previously being Real Club Deportivo Español. For someone coming from outside, these squabbles are irrelevant, MP is big friends with Ivan de la Peña, who played for and is loved by both clubs and FCBs Carles Pujol. His sons speak Catalan (were born there) and identify themselves as such (as he said in a recent interview in Spanish with the La Nación newspaper in Argentina).