As the next coach for several reasons: Firstly, the fact that the Euro Cup ends in mid-July would represent a significant impediment when it comes to some planning aspects at FC Barcelona, as he would start pre-season late. At Barça, no one doubts that his style is based on attractive and offensive football, but that is not everything. At the club they have doubts regarding the relationship that Julian could have both with the locker room and with a complex Barcelona environment and ecosystem. Barça leaders believe that a coach with more experience and with more experience in different situations is more suitable.
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by cinephilecious
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Shame, I rated him highest from all the speculated German coaches, except from Klopp but he was never a realistic option, and I absolutely would have preferred him over other names thrown around such as De Zerbi or Michel who have zero experience at a top club.
He’s better than Tuchel though, ask any Bayern fan.
After hearing he was bad mouthing Barça yeah I’m glad he isn’t an option for us.
”More experience”.
Also Barca: Lets get Flick.
was my favourite choice out of all the candidates tbh
Well that sucks.
The planning part is a legitimate point, the rest not imo. How somebody handles the environment you never know anyway cause it basically exists nowhere else to this degree and about the experience factor: he has managed like 3x the amount of games as flick has in recent times, with very different setups, different budgets, different expectations…
I am surprised that no one talk about Joachim Löw
In the landscape of Coaches, I would avoid failed Bayern ones; their board is fairly competent. JN was impressive but very inexperienced.
De Zerbi would be the dream but I expect he is waiting for a top PL club.
My pick would weirdly be Unai Emery, outperforming everywhere. Even at Arsenal, he finished 5th but with a horrible squad.
His style is definitely more direct than Pep or Enrique, but I feel it would fit the squad very well, Raphinha, Ferran, Gavi would thrive in his high intensity setup.
The first reason I understand. Euros end in July and Barca want a manager before then. The second reason is dumb. Nagelsmann has plenty of experience. Just because he hasn’t won a CL doesn’t mean he’s inexperience. He’s faced and beaten many good european sides.
When he was at Bayern, I recall he had a fallout with Lewandowski who also indirectly criticised him after joining Barça. The reunion would have been a bit awkward to say the least.
Julian Nagelsmann is overrated. He lost to Villarreal in the Champions League