Deco has become Barcelona’s strong man in sports. The former Portuguese player revealed the tactics used by the club to sign players while avoiding the possible spectre of having to sell good players to gain salary space. The manager, meanwhile, He shot Xavi Hernandez after he described Hansi Flick as “very hard-working.”
“I didn’t succumb to the temptation to sell, but it wasn’t easy because we didn’t know perfectly whether we could play with that or not.for ‘Fair Play’ and all those things. So not selling is very complicated, because if you don’t sell, you can’t buy, you can’t sign. But we were clear from the beginning, I was very clear, that the important thing in this team was not to sell the important players but to maintain and retain and know what we had at home,” Deco explained in the club’s official media.
The manager does not blush when he admits that many clubs have come to fish in Barcelona given the club’s economic weakness.There were offers for several of our players, but we made it clear that we did not want to lose any important players. That’s the idea. In other words, if we’ve built a team in recent years, we can’t dismantle it. So the idea has always been that you have to raise the level, not lower it. So selling an important player is lowering the level. We couldn’t do that because,” he added.
The role of young people
Deco is clear that the club must support La Masía.If you don’t have the level, it’s impossible to play for Barça. The bet must always be La Masía. “I think it’s historic that important players, top players, have always left the club, but they don’t leave just to leave. There is work behind this, there is work that is well done in grassroots football, with Alexanko and all the people who work there,” he said.
“We talk almost every day, see things. I don’t think we look at the need, I think we look at the level of the player and of course it’s much better. when you don’t need to go to the market because you have quality at home. “It’s fundamental for a club,” he commented on the good work of the base, which produces great results like Lamine Yamal, Pau Cubarsí or Fermín López, among others.
“The idea was that if these young people were working, we wouldn’t need to go to the market as much. So the idea was to find that balance and know what we would be missing. Within what we had in mind, I think we found the balance. I think the signing of Olmo gives us enough balance in midfield.is a different player from the midfield profiles we have. So, with that, we also gain in offensive quality,” he commented about the market.
Another blow for Xavi
And for now, Hansi Flick’s hand is visible after winning the first four rounds of La Liga. “He is a calm man, he is passionate about football. He likes to work, he is hardworking, he is a coach who has clear ideas and who is very demanding. “He is very clear about what he has to do, about what a football player has to do,” he explained about the German, unlike Xavi for whom he never had such good words.
“He is also very clear about what the people who work at the club on a daily basis have to do. “For me, I would define him as a worker,” concluded the Portuguese in an interview broadcast by Barça.
