Barça's first contact with Hansi Flick on behalf of Joan Laporta

Hansi Flick Has converted quickly in one of the candidates to suplir to Xavi Hernández in the bench of the FC Barcelona. The German technician, that finds at present without team, after his cessation like seleccionador of Germany, already even has been contacted by the group culé to communicate him that it is one of the names that stir to turn into the next technician of the Catalan entity.

After the announcement that Xavi will not follow further of 30 June, the club has initiated already the research to have new trainer for the next season. Like this it informed the journalist Christian Falk, detailing that the sportive director of the Barça, Deco, and for the president Joan Laporta, put in contact with Flick to express the interest of the Barcelona club in his services.

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❇️ Barça sporting-director Deco contacted Hansi Flick on behalf of club president Joan Laporta
❇️Boat want to signal interest and tell Flick that have is on the list of candidates to succeed Xavi
❇️ At this time Flick Have just been on vacation in Spain

— Christian Falk (@cfbayern) January 31, 2024

Deco And Laporta have wanted to mark territory

The intention of the Barça, and of Deco, would be to leave clear to Flick that appears between the candidates for suceder to Xavi, marking like this the start of the negotiations. The contact shows the interest of Laporta in hiring to the German, remembering besides that the president of the Catalan club is a big admirer at present of the trainers germanos, and knowing that the options of Jürgen Klopp or Thomas Tuchel lucen descartadas by the moment.

This current interest of the Barça in Flick is far to be the first equally. Already in the summer of the 2021, when it abandoned the bench of the Bayern of Munich, grieve a year after attaining the triplete with the Bavarian club, the directive of Laporta put in contact with him so that it did charge of the bench barcelonista, then occupied by Ronald Koeman that was more than discussed and that never was of the taste of the president.

The most recent history does not endorse too much to Flick

However, Flick in this moment kept waiting for the selection of Germany when having known that Joachim Löw would close his stage at the head of the national team. The ex of the Bayern was the attendant to take the controls of the selection of his country after the exit of the seleccionador that carried them to win his fourth World-wide in 2014, but his stage finish in failure after being deleted in phase of groups in the World-wide of Qatar 2022 and later win only one of six friendly of preparation for the Eurocopa 2024.