New Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman will sell up to six first-team players before the next La Liga season, according to a report published in Mirror. The players spoken of in the report are Sergio Busquets, Luis Suarez, Arturo Vidal, Ivan Rakitic, Samuel Umtiti and Jordi Alba.
The former Everton coach will have his dream role in a convulsing era at the Camp Nou, the brand new club out of a goal won through Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals.
Koeman doesn’t have the ability to have much budget at his disposal to exercise his team before next season and will have to sell players to buy new ones.
✈️ “I just saw Koeman take off on a jet where #Barcelona posedArray.” ⏰ “I’ll show up in a few hours.” Marcel Van der Kraan tells talkSPORT2 that Ronald Koeman will be shown as head of Barcelona soon ?? pic.twitter.com/JBee1zXF10
Koeman will look to reform the team after taking the reins of Quique Setien’s Barcelona.
Barcelona finished a season without trophies for the first time since 2007, an indication of the magnitude of the Dutchman’s striker’s task.
Koeman, a legend in Barcelona under the baton of Johan Cruyff, won four La Liga titles from 1991 to 1994 while playing for the well-known ‘dream team’. In a team made up of legendary players such as Hristo Stoichkov, Romario, Pep Guardiola and Michael Laudrup, it was the Dutchman who scored the winning goal for Barcelona in the 1992 European Cup final, the first in the club’s history.
“It’s your dream job,” Ronald Koeman’s former Southampton assistant Sammy Lee about the Dutch Barcelona coach. pic.twitter.com/7a0ADSfYfg
Koeman will have to reshape the backbone of the Barcelona team, as players such as Gerard Piqué, Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba and Luis Suarez are all in the 30-year-old’s appearance.
The former Southamton coach will have to make some decisions, as Piqué alluded after Barcelona’s humiliating defeat in the Champions League to Bayern Munich.
Piqué wrote on the club’s website: