Núñez and Cruyff, a relation of love-hate in the FC Barcelona

The relation of Josep Lluís Núñez and Johan Cruyff began like a tale of fairies, and with the will of both that all went out well for relanzar to the FC Barcelona in all the competitions after one of the periods more convulsas of the club. It ran the Wednesday 4 May 1988 when Núñez gave the opportunity to Cruyff so that it occupied the bench of the Barcelona.

Still they did not have sanado of the all the wounds of the 'riot' of the players in the Hesperia, and Cruyff was the attendant to sort out in a changing room in which there were a lot of changes. They left thirteen players and arrived twelve new signings during this same summer, after it said that Núñez had agreed to the signing of Javier Clemente to train to the Barça.

But to last hour the ex president would have changed of posture, and opted for hiring to Johan Cruyff to the one who motivated him the idea to train in the team where was a legend to sportive level. "Now I am smarter that before, will not commit the same failures that in my period like player", said then the Dutch, that arrived to the Barcelona after winning two Glasses of Holland and a Recopa like technician of the Ajax.

With the arrival of Cruyff, the FC Barcelona invested 2.000 million pesetas for 'resurrect' to sportive level, and arrived faces so known like the one of Ronald Koeman, by the one who paid 1.000 million pesetas and that would finish being the big hero of the first Glass of Europe of the Barça. After a first campaign of altibajos, in which the Barça finish second in the League, deleted in chambers of the Glass and champion of the Recopa of Europe, the illusion returned to some fans culé that went back to flock to the Camp Nou.

Eight years afterwards, however, the relation between Núñez and Cruyff arrived to his climax of deterioration, after having worsened of progressive form with the step of the seasons. The team had worsened, of the 'Dream Team' already remained so only a moving memory and the last signings supported by Cruyff had not worked.

The relation Cruyff-Núñez worsened with the bad results

The goleada received in the final of the Glass of Europe of 1994 (4-0 in front of the Milan) escoció a lot in Can Barça, and the season 1994-95 also disappointed. Everything burst to the term of the course 1995-96, when the split between Cruyff and the directive of Núñez did patent to the public light, with hard crosses of statements between both parts.

At the end, on 18 May 1996, the club destituyó officially to Johan Cruyff, generating a division in the barcelonismo, since the Camp Nou pronounced in favour of the Dutch. Shortly after Núñez accused to Cruyff to be disloyal and to deny to speak with the directive. "If somebody has done something so that Cruyff triumph have been I", even said on the Dutch. A relation of love-hate that carried to the Barça to the sky, and afterwards to the hell.