Koeman explores the Dutch way

If history ruled, and despite the fact that some candidates like Victor Font do not want to give him more than a year as coach of the Barça, it could be predicted that Koeman will be time in the Barça. Not surprisingly, four of the five coaches with the most league games in the history of the Blaugrana club are Dutch: Johan Cruyff (300), Rinus Michels (204), Frank Rijkaard (190) and Louis Van Gaal (133). They are all reminded of Dutch signings. Cruyff played with Michels and Neskeens. With Cruyff, the same Koeman or Rochard Witschge. Open the Bosman law, with Van Gaal the tap was opened: Frank and Ronald de Boer, Reiziger, Bogarde, Cocu, Overmars, Kluivert... With Rijkaard there was also some brushstroke, like that of Van Bronckhorst.

So Koeman has landed and, although the Dutch quota is covered, for the moment, by Frenkie de Jong, rumors have been triggered about the possibility that 'Tintin' seeks in the team some more extension of his in the field. The first name to emerge was Donny Van de Beek, midfielder with arrival of Ajax that was already in the orbit of Barça and Real Madrid last season. The Barça midfield will need troops if, in addition to Arthur, they end up leaving Vidal, Rakitic and Sergio Busquets. In addition to Van de Beek, two other midfielders have been fixed for Koeman in the Netherlands. One is Georginio Wijnaldum (29 years old), who ends his contract in 2021. He also ends his contract in just one year Marten de Roon, a hard-hitting midfielder who has played it all in the exuberant Atalanta and you've seen 15 cards this season. Van de Beek, De Roon and Wijnaldum have been, together with De Jong, the base of the team that surprised in the Nations League.

But they have not only sounded midfielders. Also forwards. Even if Lautaro Martinez It is still the great goal of Barça today, Memphis Depay (he prefers to have his last name omitted, as he was abandoned by his father at the age of 4) is also under Koeman's radar. Depay also ends its commitment in 2021. Longer are the contracts of Donyell Mahlen, player of PSV until 2024 on the radar of Ramon Planes since last fall; and Bergwijn, who went to Tottenham And according to De Jong, he is the most difficult player he has ever faced.

Van de Beek, Wijnaldum, De Roon, Memphis, Bergwijn, Mahlen. Players that could be heard a lot in the coming weeks at Can Barça.