After humiliation in Lisbon, Quique Setien's

spell in the Barcelona dugout looks to be

coming to an end, though the question

remains of who will replace him.

Barcelona are considering a number of names,

including Ronald Koeman as a leading

candidate.

The sporting management team know that they

must get the next appointment right as any

failure would only make the current crisis worse

and cause a number of high-profile figures to

leave the club.

What's clear is that the new coach must learn

from the mistakes of his predecessors if he is to

have success.

The untouchable figures in the squad have

gained too much influence and as was

foreseeable years ago, it has made the role of

coach a difficult one.

If a respected figure like Luis Enrique had

problems with this, it's normal that those who

have followed have struggled too.

 

With the current pandemic and the club's

financial situation, focusing on young talents will

be important.

Setien hasn't dared to give Riqui Puig or Ansu

Fati the key roles they were deserving of and

that cannot continue.

 

IMMEDIATE IMPACT.

Whoever comes in will not have long to prepare

pre-season with just weeks until the start of the

new LaLiga Santander season.

It will also be a season with elections, with a

change in the board midway through the season,

so the new coach will have to convince the new

president.

 

Setien promised to play good football in his

presentation but couldn't follow through on his

promise.

Managing his image and not making promises or

having to explain comments to the squad after a

press conference will be crucial for the new man

in charge.

 

MANGLE MESSI.

The best player in history is past his peak and it

could be his last season in Barcelona so if the

coach does have him available, he has to make it

clear that he will need to wind down in

importance just as Andres Iniesta and Xavi

have before him.

Having a say in transfers

In recent years Barcelona have signed players

without thinking about the coach, singing

unknown players the coach hadn't asked for who

ended up leaving through the back door.

They seemed to be destined to improve the club's

finances rather than adding value to the team,

but the new coach should insist on having an

influence on transfers.

 

The loss of Barcelona's trademark style has been

a slow process but an unstoppable one, even in

spite of Setien's appointment with the Johann

Cruyff style.

Setien's style was inconsistent, his side was often

offensive and then would sit in their own half

once they had gone ahead.

Recover discipline

Beyond just the influential figures in the dressing

room, Barcelona need a figure of authority who

can take decisions with respect from the players.

 

Several players have considered training at

Barcelona in recent years to be too lightweight

with little intensity and following the demands of

the players and that has to change.

1. My son, if you keep spending on a woman and she never asked you if you’re saving or investing, and she keeps enjoying the attention, don’t marry her.

2. My son, a woman could be a good wife to you, some could be a good mother to your children but if you’ve found a woman like a mother to you, your children and your family, please don’t let her go.

3. My son, don’t confine the position of your wife to the kitchen, where did you get that from? Even in our days, we had farm-lands where they worked every morning . . . that was our office.

4. My son, if I tell you that you’re the head of the house, don’t look at your pocket; look if you will see a smile on your wife’s face.

5. My son, if you want to have a long life, let your wife be in-charge of your salary, it will be difficult for her to spend it when she’s aware of the home needs and bills to pay but if it’s in your care, she will keep you asking even when all has been spent.

6. My son, don’t ever beat your woman, the pain in her body is nothing to be compared to the wound on her heart and that means you may be in trouble living with a wounded woman.

7. My son, now that you’re married, if you live a bachelor kind of life with your wife, you will soon be single again.

8. My son, in our days, we had many wives and many children because of our large farm-lands and many harvests, there are hardly any land for farming anymore, so embrace your woman closely.

9. My son, under the cocoa tree that I did meet your mother could be your eateries and restaurants of nowadays, but remember, the closet thing we did there was to embrace each other.

10. My son, don’t be carried away when you start making more money, instead of spending on those tiny legs that never knew how hard you worked to get it, spend it on that woman that stood by you all along.

11. My son, when I threw little stones or whistled at the window of your mother father’s house, to call her out, it was not for sex, it was because I missed her so much.

12. My son, remember, when you say your wife has changed, there could be something you’ve stopped doing too.

13. My son, your mother, Asake rode the bicycle with me before I bought that tortoise car outside there, any woman that won’t endure with you in your little beginning should not enjoy your riches.

14. My son, don’t compare your wife to any woman, there are ways she’s enduring you too and has she ever compared you to any man?

15. My son, there is this thing you people call feminism, well, if a woman claim to have equal right with you in the house, divide all the bills into two equal parts, take one part and ask her to start paying the other part.

16. My son, I met your mother a virgin and I took more yams to her father, if you don’t meet your wife a virgin, don’t blame her, what I didn’t tell you is that our women had prestige.

17. My son, I didn’t send your sisters to school because I was foolish like many to think a female child won’t extend my family name, please don’t make that mistake, the kind of female achievers I see nowadays has made the male-gender an ordinary tag.

18. My son, your mother have once locked up the cloth I was wearing and almost tore it because she was angry, I did not raise my hand to beat her because of a day like this, so that I can be proud to tell you that I never for once beat your mother.

19. My son, in our days, our women had more of natural beauty, though I wouldn’t lie to you, some had minor painting of their appellation mostly on their arms, the ones you people now call tattoo, but don’t forget that they didn’t expose any part of their body like your women of nowadays.

20. My son, your mother and I are not interested in what happens in your marriage, try to handle issues without always coming to us.

21. My son, remember I bought your mother’s first sewing machine for her, help your wife achieve her dreams just as you’re pursuing yours.

22. My son, don’t stop taking care of me and your mother, it’s a secret of growing old and having children to take care of you too.

23. My son, pray with your family, there is a tomorrow you don’t know, talk to God that knows everything, everyday.