Quique Setin, Saturday at Mestalla.
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Chronicle
Maxi Gmez disconnects the blur of Bara de Setin
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Analysis
The Setin disaster, by Julin Ruiz
The environment not only is it divided by cruiseries Y nuistas, but between those who count passes and those who give up those who count passes. The discussion about the style of play was always welcomed in a club whose great torment is his habitual dissatisfaction with the present. The hiring in a few hours of Quique Setin by President Josep Maria Bartomeu – executed after failing in his run-over negotiations with Xavi Hernndez, Ronald Koeman and Mauricio Pochettino – brings a subliminal message. In case of sinking, there will always be the option of blaming Cruyff's apostles. No to the directive. No to the locker room.
For the past five and a half years, both Luis Enrique Martnez and Ernesto Valverde executed survival plans. Never stay. They managed in their own way the sunset of an unparalleled generation. They sacrificed the aesthetics and the rhetoric of the midfielders – if it was by obligation to what they found in the dressing room only they know – but they also managed to catch titles and move on. I don't miss anything with Messi on your side. The board thus chose to disregard the transition. And close my eyes before the growing power of a locker room that went from advising Bartomeu to the acquittal of Valverde after the collapse in Anfield to see with good eyes his dismissal mid season and with the leading team in the league.
Perhaps nobody noticed that Quique Setin, firm in his convictions, hardly adapts his tactical ideology to decrepitude. Impact his analysis of the first defeat as coach of Barcelona: There are some things that players do not interpret well. Or maybe we don't explain them well. More than a reproach, some frustration began to be intuited in the face of the impossibility that the games played in his head have continuity in the field.
The 3-5-2 that Setin is trying to drive into the meninges of his players, beyond the fact that the poor planning of the staff could discourage the drawing, has forced several of the players to leave their comfort zone. Griezmann is asked to uncheck. Does not make them. Ansu Fati, at 17, is claimed to be a semidis as a lane. It is not your role. Sergi Roberto, who started the season on the promise that he will be a midfielder again, is asked to learn to be central now. Mestalla revealed the consequences. Umtiti, ahead of Lenglet, is asked to return to be the center that wins the World Cup with France. And there is no match in which he himself denies it. Piqu remains untouchable, and Todibo, once the hope of Abidal, goes to Germany. De Jong is asked for control and impudence, and what should be learning has changed in worrying involvement. Arthur is asked to give coherence to possession, and it is Arturo Vidal who sublimates the power of disorder. The team is asked for depth and goals, but look at the bench and see that no one can replace Luis Surez. Because last summer nobody remembered the grotesque step of Kevin-Prince Boateng. Or that in the defeat of the Cup final against Valencia who finished the game as center forward was Piqu. We forget fast. Now touch open the safe to solve the urgencies of the past. It was always like that.
Setin insists on his. He tries to convince the dressing room. Deny partying because there is no time to lose. With or without storms. Some people twist the gesture.
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