“Now I’m just another employee”

Sergio Barjuantechnician of the subsidiary, will continue at the head of the renamed Barça Atlètic the next season after staying just one point away from playing in the playoff for promotion to Segunda, after a season marked by the several absences of players who had to reinforce the first team.

In an interview on Catalunya Ràdio’s ‘Tot Costa’ program, Sergi positively valued his first course in the subsidiary. “It is something totally different from what I was used to until now. Here I am just another employee, with the aim of educating, training and directing the players towards football and life in general. In this process there are results, but we have been close to the playoff. We have to find out why it hasn’t been achieved, but we have to be happy because many of our players have made it to the first team”, he analyzed and did not venture to put on a new one for next year because “we still have to see how it turns out the template,” he said.

The experience in the first team

On his short experience in the first team after the dismissal of Ronald Koeman, Sergi He explained that “I have very good memories, it was only a week, but I tried to help with the role that was given to me. I told the captains what they needed from me,” she stated. “You always like to have candy in your mouth and not take it away, but the luck I’ve had is that I’ve been a professional player and I was clear about what my restraint was,” he added.

In the branch, Sergi has had to face some complicated situations, some with a happy ending, and others instead, as in the case of Kays Ruiz, whose contract was terminated before the end of the season, not so much. On Arnau Tenas, Sergi explained that “his evolution has been very good, he has finished the year very well, let’s remember that he is young, that he is only 21 years old. The only problem I have had with him is that he is a goalkeeper, and only one player plays. He is a goalkeeper who will be talked about a lot in the coming years, I don’t know if here or abroad, and as a teammate, he has been a great dressing room manager, he has helped us and we helped him, he has been very good, even though we had a rifirafe, because he was the captain and I like the captain to be a field player. He has been the best captain I have had this year,” he added.

About Kays Ruizwho in summer returned from PSG With the release letter, Sergi explained that “he arrived late, he had to start the preseason with the first team and he caught Covid and couldn’t go. The integration process was more difficult. We have tried to help each other, but it has cost a lot. He is a great footballer, he has a great vision of the game, of the last pass, but the circumstances have led him to have other doubts about responsibility on a personal and teammate level”, he concluded.

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