“I Regret Not Leaving Barçelona Sooner” – Quique Setien
Written by Patrick Echatah
Ex-Barcelona coach and Villarreal boss Quique Setien chatted about his former club this week. Setien made it clear that he regrets how things went at Barcelona but makes it clear how the dream of coaching Barcelona wasn’t as expected.
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“Barca was the team I had always dreamed of coaching, but if you see there are things you can’t change, you should leave,” he said.
“But it is an opportunity you have dreamed of forever. And arriving through one door and leaving through another the next month like [Jose Antonio] Camacho did [at Real Madrid in 1998]…
“There was a moment I thought about it, but you overcome those moments. If there are things that don’t fit, you should not be a hypocrite and you should go.
“When you arrive at a club that has been winning everything for 14 years… there are some habits that I had never seen.
“There are things you can’t change because they are so established and it is not an easy situation. It was a huge learning experience. I would do it again, without a doubt. You learn from everything to get better in the future.”
There’s no doubt that Setien came at an unfortunate time in the club’s history, but when your dream club comes calling, you answer the phone.
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Meanwhile…
PSV midfielder Xavi Simons is no stranger to how things were run at Barcelona.
The youngster was one of the club’s most highly-rated talents but moved to PSG in 2019 after his contract expired. Simons has since moved to the Netherlands to play at PSV and wasn’t shy about the differences of training styles at clubs.
“Believe me, at Barcelona you don’t do a lot of work in the gym, you work with the ball, but not in the gym,” he said.
“When I went to PSG, I discovered that there they worked in the gym. I saw the differences directly: the French league was very physical.”
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