The Catalan press ensures that José Mourinho asked to Txiki Begiristain, when this was technical director of the FC Barcelona and was negotiating in 2008 with the luso like technical future culé, that Luis Enrique was one of his assistants in the team
As it has published the newspaper "MD", José Mourinho would have interviewed at the beginning of 2008, in Lisbon, with the then vice-president and technical director of the FC Barcelona, Marc Ingla and Txiki Begiristain, with the aim to negotiate seriously the signing of the Portuguese trainer like future trainer of the team knowingly that Frank Rijkaard would not follow. During the conversation, one of the names that would have gone out of the mouth of "Mou" like assistant would have been the one of Luis Enrique, since the luso always wishes to have near to somebody that know to perfection all the gears of the club to the that trains and can advise him in determinate fields.
Also they stirred the possibilities of Pep Guardiola and Eusebio Sacristán like second trainers of Mourinho in the Barça, but the first option of the Portuguese would have been without place to doubts, and always according to the Catalan newspaper, the Asturian. In the four years that remained in the entity barcelonista, the now trainer of Chelsea had known perfectly the character and the capacities of Luis Enrique from the bench, and also the ones of Guardiola in spite of that his relation finish twisting. Mourinho would have confessed to "MD" that his signing or did not go to depend of the beneplácito of Johan Cruyff, that finally finished decanting by the one of Santpedor.
By this reason, ensures the Catalan newspaper, would not have to extrañar to the barcelonistas the effusive praises of Mourinho to the figure of Luis Enrique. Although "MD" collects also some statements of the Portuguese in which also elogia to Pep Guardiola. "Pep already trained when it was player. It does years that said that it would be a big technician, in what it proposed it to him. Therefore I appointed him between my possible assistants in the Barça", would have said after his coronation like Doctor Honoris Cause by the Technical University of Lisbon.
Carlos Domínguez
@CarlosDomnguez1
As it has published the newspaper "MD", José Mourinho would have interviewed at the beginning of 2008, in Lisbon, with the then vice-president and technical director of the FC Barcelona, Marc Ingla and Txiki Begiristain, with the aim to negotiate seriously the signing of the Portuguese trainer like future trainer of the team knowingly that Frank Rijkaard would not follow. During the conversation, one of the names that would have gone out of the mouth of "Mou" like assistant would have been the one of Luis Enrique, since the luso always wishes to have near to somebody that know to perfection all the gears of the club to the that trains and can advise him in determinate fields.
Also they stirred the possibilities of Pep Guardiola and Eusebio Sacristán like second trainers of Mourinho in the Barça, but the first option of the Portuguese would have been without place to doubts, and always according to the Catalan newspaper, the Asturian. In the four years that remained in the entity barcelonista, the now trainer of Chelsea had known perfectly the character and the capacities of Luis Enrique from the bench, and also the ones of Guardiola in spite of that his relation finish twisting. Mourinho would have confessed to "MD" that his signing or did not go to depend of the beneplácito of Johan Cruyff, that finally finished decanting by the one of Santpedor.
By this reason, ensures the Catalan newspaper, would not have to extrañar to the barcelonistas the effusive praises of Mourinho to the figure of Luis Enrique. Although "MD" collects also some statements of the Portuguese in which also elogia to Pep Guardiola. "Pep already trained when it was player. It does years that said that it would be a big technician, in what it proposed it to him. Therefore I appointed him between my possible assistants in the Barça", would have said after his coronation like Doctor Honoris Cause by the Technical University of Lisbon.
Carlos Domínguez
@CarlosDomnguez1