Bartomeu admits he shouldn’t have fired Zubizarreta

Taking advantage of the presidential elections Porto and one of the candidates, Andre Villas BoasI bet you Andoni Zubizarreta as technical secretary, the former president of Barça Joseph Maria Bartomeu He openly confessed that he should not have fired the Basque coach, then sports director.

pinto da costa who decided to run again, was pardoned Zubiprecisely because of their dismissals in Barça and in Marseilles. Bartomeu, who led the club between the 2013-2014 and 2020-2021 seasons, for the first time, in a statement to zerozero.pt., that it was “a mistake.” This newspaper consulted uses different words: “I think the decision taken in January 2015 was not the most appropriate.”

He explained that the board of Barça At that time he hired Zubizarreta in the summer of 2010 to become the club’s sports director. “At first, his main job was to reorganize the whole The Masia. He was very disruptive and created new methods and new protocols for player development. Of Spain, Europe and other countries. It included new computer systems and new ideas. Almost everything has changed except the concept of La Masia. I am only referring to its reorganization.

At the beginning of 2015, Bartomeu make a decision to terminate their services. The tension that existed in the locker room in between Luis Enrique and the players graduated after a match against Real society in Anoeta. “We presidents don’t always understand. Over time, I think I was wrong to fire him. If I could go back, I wouldn’t do it. They were days of great tension. There was a big problem between Luis Enrique and the players and I have to make decisions. I fired the sports director and the general director,” he explained, to clarify that “it is not true, as they say, that he left because of the sanctions imposed on us by FIFA. He didn’t come or be with me. The problem is in front of us,” he remarks.

The former president of Barça blame the appearance of players like Ansu Fati, Lamine Yamal and Pau Cubarsíthat arose thanks to his methodology “When he arrived he created the concept we call succession lines. The players of The Masia to reach the first team. That work didn’t pay off right away, but the players came for what created them. “Zubi”.

Bartomeu also announced that another of his achievements was the prolongation of the winning cycle of Pep Guardiola together uncle vilanova. “He convinced Tito Vilanova to take over when Guardiola left. And he also chose Luis Enrique a few years later. And he brought N.eymar, Ter Stegen, Luis Suárez. We had Messi, but he was the only one who didn’t win titles. Zubi “He is the father of the second triplet in our history.”