As he complained after the match with Granada, Barca today is not the Barça of 8 years ago, there are no players who can succeed one-on-one, there are no players who can break through with speed, there are no players who can play Tiki-Taka passing, and there are no shooters who can create opportunities in the box. The subtext is that he can only use a simple and rough British cross, and the tall double center-back inserts himself into the box to fight for air supremacy... But this is not Barca football, and turning his back on tradition, Koeman neither listens to president Laporta's arrangements nor wins the game with his own expedients, so there is no way back.
At least in midweek against Cadiz, Koeman was able to direct the team from Barca's coaching bench, but it was only a matter of time before he left. Like Messi's departure, everything has long been determined, but there is a lack of a reasonable time.
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In the eyes of AS editor-in-chief Relaño, Koeman reminded him of Barca football before the arrival of Michels in the 1960s: British long passes, simple and rough high-altitude bombing. That alone is enough to get Koeman to hand over the coaching position. With 54 crosses in a single game, 45 were in the box, a single-game record in the top five leagues this season, even surpassing the Premier League's burnley and Arsenal (35) and more English than English football. Unfortunately, Barca only had 26 percent of their crosses in place, making their tactics extremely inefficient.
The match that Barca fans can't bear to watch is even more unacceptable than the 0-3 defeat to Bayern. Can Barça, which has lost its tradition of pass-control football, still be called Barça? In particular, this kind of "deviance" actually happened to Koeman, who had been trained by Cruyff and came from the Netherlands, is it intolerable? Koeman's puzzling doesn't stop there: he held on to the cross, but left high school striker Luc De Jong on the bench and didn't play until the second half. Even more ridiculous is that at the end of the game, the connection between Pique and Araujo two centre-backs equalized, and after the game, the two centre-backs even admitted that they had never practiced the tactics of a cameo center in pre-match training!
According to the editor-in-chief of Relaño, Coman has once again left Barca in the chaotic state of chaos after the departure of Argentine coach Herrera in the last century. As the fifth Dutch coach in Barca's history, Koeman is completely devoid of the understanding and insistence of his predecessors on the philosophy of Dutch football. Barca have completely abandoned the proud pass-control football of being one of the club's brands, just as they have abandoned Messi, who is also one of the brand symbols. Critics argue that Koeman is turning Barca into a team with no formation tactics, no creativity, no mature system and no spiritual core.
Fans have enjoyed the "caviar" of pass-control football for so many years, and now have to chew the hard-to-swallow British hanging "screws"... Koeman's complaints about the quality of the team are correct, and it is also right to resent Laporta's intervention, after all, only Frenki De Jong is reliable in the midfield, but the team relies on the young B-team center-back to try the header for the fifth time to avoid the home defeat, is there a process and result that makes barca people feel more ashamed?
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The open clash between Koeman and Laporta doomed the Dutch to a tragic end. As a spare tire for Laporta's "manager-elect", he should not have the luxury of getting enough respect. Last summer he was already a "spare tire" for Bartomeu, and finally paid 6 million euros to "redeem himself" before he got out of the Dutch Football Association to coach Barca. Laporta has never respected the "spare tire" and even said this summer that Coman could be replaced at any time, as long as Barca can find the right new coach. This is the biggest humiliation for any current manager, and Koeman has made his own counterattack, and in the end all he has to get is to continue to be "forced" to stay in the team: Because Laporta can neither find a suitable successor nor have the money to pay Koeman's compensation.
After the contradiction between the two was made public by the media, the situation was out of control. The chairman thinks that the coach is incompetent and self-aware, the coach thinks that the chairman is hypocritical and dishonest, and even says "they should thank me, because without me there would be no Barça now", pointing out that he has trained Three new people for Barca last season, Araujo, Mingeza and Pedri, and this season can also make Garvey, Nico and Demir stand out. But Laporta and most people do not recognize Coman's so-called promotion of La Masia's rookie, and they are more puzzled, why can't a team with 4 Dutch players play authentic Dutch football?
Koeman never hid his transcendental pragmatism, only this time he was clearly overheated and proved his incompetence. With just one win in their last five games and five of their last eight La Liga games, Koeman is going through his worst of times at Barca. Because the compensation is too high for barca today (13 million euros), Coman will continue to coach in the context of La Porta's search for a successor. But the Dutchman has lost almost everyone's trust, and as the Daily Sport put it, he feels loneliness like never before.
Koeman stressed that the club does not have the right players at the moment, but also asked him to provide a higher level of game content, which is unfair. But no one cares about the feeling of the spare tire, and Laporta's public statement is a kind of "riding a donkey to find a horse." Moreover, Laporta did not respect Koeman's idea of the squad in the slightest: before the summer window closed, he gave Koeman a Dutch center who would not have scored in Sevilla, and at the same time required him to play 433, such a coaching environment, which coach can happily do well?
Koeman still stubbornly believes that the criticism is only because he did not win, and has nothing to do with the content of the game, and also tells the cruel truth that everyone knows: "Today's Barça is not the Barça of 8 years ago". But the failure of the football world always has to be a scapegoat, and the coach is always the most suitable candidate, not to mention a coach who has been "spare tire" for more than 1 year...