Éric Abidal, ex technical secretary of the Barcelona

ABIDAL GOES THROUGH THE BACK DOOR

Barça charges Abidal and terminates his contract as technical secretary

Published:18/08/2020 - 16:28h

Updated:18/08/2020 - 19:04h

Éric Abidal has ceased to be Barça's technical secretary for all purposes. The club has announced the termination of his contract in a statement thanking him for his work in recent years

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Éric Abidal​ carries on a tightrope in the FC Barcelona from his 'rifi-rafe' with Leo Messi does already several months. The French does not enjoy of the seen well of the heavy weights from this incident and his work at the head of the technical office neither had done him an indispensable. His errors in matter of signings are a reality and this, added to the problem with the Argentinian, him auguraba a future very aciago in the club barcelonista.

At the end it has occurred what had to occur and the Barça has decided to dispense of the Frenchman. The Barcelona group has announced this decision in a communiqué in which it signals to have arrived to an agreement with him to terminate his agreement. Of this way, finalise more than two years of union between the team culé and the ex defender, that returned to the City Condal in June of 2018 in replacement of Robert Fernández.

The club wanted to appreciate in this writing the work of Abidal in these two years at the head of the sportive direction of the Barcelona. "The club expresses publicly his gratitude to Éric Abidal by the professionalism, the commitment, the dedication and the positive and near deal that has showed always to all the estamentos that conform the Barcelona family, and wishes him luck and successes in the future", affirmed.

To the French him atrubuye good part of fault in the fallido signing of Philippe Coutinho, that probably already was the worst operation in the history of the club. The Brazilian cost 120 million euros more 40 by aims to turn into the most expensive arrival of the history of the Barça. But the mediapunta has not been neither near to show cost this and right now only is an enormous economic problem that the Catalans want to remove of on.

Besides, to the ex left-handed side also blames him of other arrivals that have not worked and that have supposed enormous economic outlays for the Barcelona. The most sounded are the ones of Ousmane Dembélé and Antoine Griezmann, that cost 105 and 120 'kilos', respectively. The extreme of Vernon, besides, cost 40 more by aims, of which has have paid at least 20. To day of today, any has given the level expected by the injuries, as it is the case of the ex of the Dortmund, or by problems of adaptation, as it is the one of the ex rojiblanco.

The club wants deep changes this summer

In definite, the work of Abidal at the head of the technical office barcelonista seems to have had more shadows that lights in his two years in the charge. The humillante failure in the Champions League has been the last nail for his grave and this past Monday decided his goodbye in the meeting that had the Managerial Board. Josep Maria Bartomeu has promised deep changes in the club and has begun by Quique Setién and by the French, that already form part of the past.

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