“With this Barcelona squad I would aspire to win titles …”

The former Barcelona B coach, Javier García Pimienta, has been dispatched at ease after the defeat of the Barça team in the Clásico last Sunday. The coach believes that Koeman is not knowing how to get the most out of the current squad. In his opinion, the Barça squad has enough level to compete to win titles. In fact, he is convinced that he would be able to improve the level of the team.

“Of what I am sure is that the first team of Barça, with the current squad, with what there is now and as soon as Dembélé, Ronald (Araújo), Pedri recover … having all the players now, I don’t know if I would win the Champions League, the League and the King’s Cup, but I would aspire to win almost all the titles. Aspiring to win means competing to try to win all of these. Then you can get Bayern Munich, Manchester City or Liverpool and you can lose, because it falls within the logic, but the team would play better and would have more options to aspire to win titles. I have no doubt, “said the coach in an interview with JijantesFC.

García Pimienta was fired last June after being ratified a few weeks earlier. In the interview with Gerard Romero he also criticized the Barça leadership: “They told me thank you for everything, for your behavior and for these years, but that they wanted to put their people. Telling me that I was not in line with grassroots football … is quite the opposite. In 2018 when I go up to Barça B is when it returns to the origin. In previous years, top squads had been formed without options for players to reach the first team. All the games that I have coached at Barça, in the B, youth, cadets… we have played with the 4-3-3, true to style ”.