Ramon Planes has asked the FC Barcelona leave the club leaving his position as technical secretary of the entity immediately. The Barça coach ends his contract on June 30, 2022 and wants to go on an adventure outside the Barça. In that sense, he has decided advance your exitto have time to decide between the offers that have reached him and those that may reach him and that is why he has made this request to the club.
Within the Barça the request has been received from Planes with surprise because so much Mateu Alemany, the football director, like the president Laporta and the sports vice president, Rafa Yuste, they are very happy with their work. However, they have agreed to assess their motives and everything indicates that their request will be accepted. Now it is necessary to know when a definitive answer will be given and, if his request to leave is accepted, when his departure is officially communicated.
Ramon Planes arrived at FC Barcelona in June 2018, during the mandate of Josep Maria Bartomeu, to act as an assistant to Eric Abidal, with Pep Segura, then general manager of football, as his mentor. His official position was that of deputy to the technical secretariat. When the Frenchman left the club, Planes promoted to technical secretary.
Ramon Planes has starred in notable work at FC Barcelona, for example when recruiting players such as Ronald araujo and Pedri gonzalez. He arrived at FC Barcelona from Getafe. He had previously developed his technical work in Lleida, Hospitalet, Racing de Santander, Alavés, Espanyol, Tottenham, Elche, Rayo Vallecano and Getafe.
The figure of Jordi Cruyff
This request from Ramon Planes comes a few days after the signing of Xavi Hernández as coach of FC Barcelona. If the club accepts his request to leave, as is to be expected, it will be necessary to see if a new technical secretary is hired or trusts the figure of Jordi Cruyff, who already performed similar functions in other clubs such as, for example, the Maccabi of Tel Aviv.
In the project that he had drawn up before the elections Xavi Hernandez with Victor Font was Jordi Cruyff, but as a sports director. The position of technical secretary was for Titus White, who now works in Alavés, and for Fernando Navarro, which is the ‘right hand’ of Monchi at Sevilla. If the club is looking for a technical secretary with experience in the League and the confidence of Xavi, both meet the profile.
Other technicians who have run for the position months ago, linked to Joan Laporta, are Marc Overmars (Ajax), Michael Zorc (Borussia Dortmund) y Ralf Rangnick (Lokomotiv of Moscow). Curiously, too Leo messi he ran, by the time his career ends, as future Barça technical secretary