Koeman gives up Eric

Carles Tusquets, President of the Management Board of Barça, called this Friday in the morning one meeting with the three candidates officials to the presidency of the Barça club, Joan Laporta, Víctor Font and Toni Freixa, to discuss the possible signing of Eric García before the winter market closes next week. The summit was dissolved a few hours later, and Tusquets and the candidates went to talking on phone.

The strangest thing about the sequence is that, as AS learned, Ronald Koeman works for days with the idea that Eric Garcia will not come. It was, therefore, a new electoral staging of Tusquets and the candidates. A new senseless startle for a team that, after many months, is guaranteeing results and showing attitude while the aspirants to the armchair turn their backs and look out for their electoral interests.

Eric García's case was resolved days ago. Tusquets knew from the mouth of Laporta and Freixa that was not authorized to make the transfer of the central. Without consensus, it was impossible. And more after the veiled threat than Laporta he did to Tusquets, warning him about the consequences that, in the future, he might have to do acts of disposition. That is, to decide unilaterally to sign Eric despite the fact that, according to TV3, a report from the technical secretariat calls into question the capacity of Umtiti and Mingueza to play level matches.

The fact is that the gum was stretched again this Friday. Victor Font He again formally requested Laporta and Freixa to agree to the signing, but that was not possible. Koeman looks at the scene in amazement. Internal wars of the candidates; and the president of the Manager with Laporta, without too much interest in the common good or the opinion of the coach. Paradoxically, Koeman has only found the support of Víctor Font, the only candidate who publicly questioned the continuity of the Dutchman if he is president.

What Koeman and the technical secretariat, directed by Ramon Planes, cannot understand is that the matter was agitated on Friday morning when the Dutch coach already has the informal notification of Tusquets that there will be no signings. “Ask the candidates,” he said yesterday at the Barcelona Equestrian Circle. Font took advantage their ties with City to leave the signing on a tray; and Eric Garcia offered to play for free until the end of the season. The economic impact of the signing was barely 230,000 euros this course. But he got caught in the middle of the electoral war.