Four years, no more, no less, we had to wait Quique Setien to get back the last cent left of his payment after leaving the FC Barcelona in a few months. The Cantabrian, who arrived on the bench of the culé after the brutal departure of Ernest Valverde and who was the protagonist of the devastating victory of Champions League in front of him Bayern of Munich for 2-8, finally close your file with the Barcelona after receiving everything that was agreed to terminate their contractual relationship.
We have to go back to the year 2020, in the middle of a pandemic and at one of the times when the Barcelona began to flow. Setien took over Valverdewho ended his term after several years in office. The Cantabrian period promised to be a period of good football at the Camp Nou but, from the first weeks, it was clear in the media linked to the club that the coach was not in his place in the locker room. The rest is history.
Setien experienced one of the most confusing stages of football in Barcelonathat of the break due to the pandemic and Covid-19, despite this in just over seven months he has managed 25 games in which he has achieved 16 wins, four draws and conceded five defeats, those that have weighed the most. They lost in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey against Athletic Bilbao (1-0), also the Classic in front of him Real Madrid (2-0) before everything stopped in the world, and that emblematic 2-8 at the Da Luz stadium in Lisbon where the Bayern of Munich not only one of the most painful defeats in history for the Barcelonabut also of the whole history of Champions League with this 2-8 in the boots of Perisic, Kimmich, Gnabry, Lewandowski, Muller (2) and even Coutinho (2).
It was actually the last game he would direct. Quique Setien with the Barcelonadate on which a long dispute with the Blaugrana club would begin to receive the full amount of his contract, which he had signed until the 2022 season, although with various exit clauses for both parties, none of them in the scenario that would end. give.
“The Board of Directors has accepted that Setién will stop being coach of the first team. “This is the first decision in a broad restructuring of the first team, which will be taken with the consensus of the current technical secretary and the new coach, who will be announced in the coming days,” the club announced at midday. -August approximately Setiena few days after the heavy defeat against the Bayern of Munichalready with the name of Ronald Koeman on the table to replace it.
And during these last four years, Quique Setien He fought and fought to receive the money that belongs to him, the amount agreed in his contract in the event of an early departure, an amount that during all this time the Blaugrana club refused to pay and which, as pointed out BrandCantabrian hopes to finally collect in the coming days, days in which there is much talk of the rights of coaches, especially in this type of situation, totally unprotected against clubs that allow themselves to spend millions on signings but can afford the luxury of extending year after year their debts to their former workers.
