It didn't last until the end of La Liga this season. On Friday, Harvey was dismissed by Barcelona President Laporta. Then the club and Harvey made official statements to end the two-and-a-half year cooperation in a friendly manner. However, a series of sudden events just before the final announcement of the decision still conform to the previous script, full of impulses and emotional outbursts. Can the management of one of the most important clubs in the world be so bloody?
Announcing Harvey's dismissal on Friday is an emergency
In the original plan, Harvey and Laporta will hold talks after the last round of the league against Seville, and then decide whether Barcelona will fire Harvey. But everything came faster. In view of Deco and Boyang's meeting with Frick in the Europa League final, there were more confirmed news that Frick would replace Harvey. Naturally, Harvey also had certain channels to know that he had actually been fired, but the club had not yet announced it.
According to the original plan, the club is not going to have any news about the change of the head coach of the men's first team this weekend, because the Barcelona women's football team is going to play against Lyon in the final of the Champions League women's football team this weekend. Barcelona does not want the problem of the head coach of the men's football team to affect the attention of the women's football team in preparation. The senior executives of Barcelona are preparing to go to Bilbao, the venue of the final of the Champions League women's football team. But before the start of Barcelona training on Friday morning, Harvey sent a message to Barcelona President Laporta, asking: "Am I out now?" Laporta did not return the message to Harvey, but asked the driver to turn around and go straight to Gambo Sports City. At this time, Barcelona's training was not over. Laporta, Deco The first vice chairman Jutes, the youth training director Sorrell and others waited for Harvey in the Sports City office. Later, Laporta and Harvey met and talked. Although both sides said that the talks were conducted in an environment of mutual respect, in fact, the two sides had many different views. Laporta told Harvey that he made the decision the afternoon before yesterday and decided to fire Harvey and ask Frick to be the coach next season. Laporta's argument is that Harvey does not believe in this team, and Harvey refutes Laporta that he believes in this team, but Harvey demands to make changes to the team, including replacing Levin and Felix, but Laporta believes that Harvey's requirements cannot be met and are not appropriate. Finally, the argument between the two sides ends, and neither side can convince the other, And because Laporta has made a decision, there is no need to argue any more. Then the club issued an official statement, Harvey will continue to guide the team to play the last game against Seville, and the future coach of the club will announce later. Harvey also issued his own open letter to thank the club, chairman and fans for their support. At least the two sides parted in a seemingly harmonious way.
Harvey side does not admit betraying Laporta
Since Harvey made the fans realize the reality and the team is lack of competitiveness against Real Madrid and the strong teams in Europe before the game against Almeria, Laporta became furious and began to release the news that Harvey would be fired, and Barcelona's chaos was out of control. The news released by the media is that Harvey betrayed Laporta. Harvey admitted to Laporta that he believed in the team, so Laporta agreed to let Harvey remain in office. This is the most important argument for Laporta to dismiss Harvey. However, the journalists who supported Harvey issued a rebuttal. According to the information disclosed by Harvey's side, Harvey's words at the press conference did not change at all. He also said the same when meeting with Laporta. Harvey has never been behind Laporta's back in front of Laporta, The media supporting Harvey also found Deco's previous interview with Catalan TV in March, in which Deco also said that the current economic situation of Barcelona does not allow the club to make important signings at high prices, to prove that Harvey did not say anything strange to betray Laporta. The current economic situation of Barcelona is well-known.
Broker war triggered
Subsequently, a broker war broke out in the Barcelona media. A key point of the disagreement between Harvey and Laporta was that Harvey needed a high-level midfielder in the transfer market last summer and this winter, but Laporta and Deco brought Harvey a Brazilian striker Vito Roque, and cost Barcelona a lot of money, According to the media, Barcelona has paid 39 million euros, while Vito Roque's total price is 61 million euros. Vito Roque only played more than 300 minutes after coming to Barcelona. However, it was Andre Curry, the official agent of Barcelona in Brazil, who was dissatisfied with the local agent of Barcelona. For example, Minglia, the agent who signed Messi for Barcelona and was responsible for the introduction of Ronaldo, Romario, Stoichikov, Maradona and Rivaldo, released many secrets about Andre Curry's introduction of Roque. In view of Minglia's retirement, his son Minglia Jr. is now responsible for the brokerage business. Andre Curry released that when Malcolm introduced to Barcelona, Minglia Jr. took 10 million euros of brokerage fees from Barcelona to disclose.
In exchange for Curry's attack, Minglia Jr. went directly to the local media to explain on TV. Minglia Jr. explained that because Munch had actually signed Malcolm in Rome, Malcolm had flown to the Rome airport, and Barcelona had paid an additional 8.5 million euros in brokerage fees to keep Malcolm from leaving the airport and flying back to France, In the end, his own company ended up with only 1.5 million yuan in this brokerage fee, and other fees had to be paid for "Brazilians, Frenchmen and Italians" in the transaction. However, Minglia stressed that it was profitable for Barcelona to sell Malcolm in the end.
Later, Minglia also revealed many anecdotes about Rocco's joining Barcelona. He revealed that Deco and Andre Curry sold Rocco to Barcelona together when he was still a player agent before he became a sports director, which was rejected by Kruiff and Alemani, who were then in charge of the sports department, Young Cruyff and Alemani told Deco and Curibassa that they did not need such players. In addition, Minglia also revealed that before Curry became the agent of Rock, he was also in charge of the agent affairs of Rock. He once recommended Rock to the Spaniard. At that time, the transfer fee was only 12 million euros, but was rejected by the Spaniard who was about to be demoted that season.
The candidate chairman who once played Harvey asked Laporta to stand aside
After Laporta released his anger and created the crisis of Harvey's retention, the level of chaos in Barcelona can be seen. In Barcelona's last home match of the season against Balekano, a small number of fans can already be heard singing: "Let Harvey, not Laporta." After the game, Harvey made a speech asking the fans not to boo Laporta, but when the conversation changed, he expressed his gratitude to the fans for their support.
The ruling position of Laporta in Barcelona has been threatened. The opposition asked Victor Fonta, who had been defeated by Laporta in the presidential election, to go further, put Victor Fonta on the table and forced Laporta to court, and implicitly criticized Victor Fonta for his lack of aggressiveness to Laporta. In this case, Victor Fonta, who was not prepared to attack Laporta, also published an open letter detailing the chaos of Barcelona's internal affairs during Laporta's administration, expressing that it is now time for Laporta to stand aside.
Although Victor Fonter tried to hide his support for Harvey in his open letter, everyone knows the relationship between Victor Fonter and Harvey. In the previous presidential election, Harvey was the most important card of Victor Fonter, who was also the first candidate to publicly declare that he would participate in the election. However, after Laporta announced that he would also participate in the general election, events changed. First, his brother-in-law, Echevalia, persuaded Harvey not to stand on Laporta's side. Harvey did not want to stand against Laporta, and chose the middle side. It was also one year after Laporta was elected, Under the persuasion of his brother-in-law, Echevaria, he chose Harvey to replace Koeman. Unlike other people in Laporta's cabinet, Harvey has never been a firm confidant of Laporta. Like many former executives who left Barcelona halfway (such as CEO Ray Vettel, Vice President in charge of economy Luo Meiwu, and financial director of the campaign team Gilo), Harvey has no right to make decisions or even voice opinions on major issues. If Laporta believes that Harvey is the "traitor" of his future opposition, Harvey will certainly not be able to stay in Barcelona.
Laporta had two legitimate opportunities to fire Harvey
If Laporta wants to fire Harvey, it has its own reasons from the perspective of sports competition alone, but it has finally become so dramatic and absurd that fans and the entire Barcelona community will no longer discuss the rationality of the club's dismissal of Harvey in sports, and doubt Laporta's governing ability.
If the president and the coach of the club cannot keep pace with each other, and do not have the same thinking and understanding, it is difficult to lead the team forward if they are not united. The dressing room will see the differences between the actual manager and the highest authority of the team, and choose a different team. This is what happened in Barcelona this season, so it is necessary for Laporta to finally fire Harvey in the short term, But Laporta had two more reasonable opportunities to fire Harvey, so as to avoid such a ridiculous scenario, but Laporta did not take advantage of it.
First of all, on January 27, after Barcelona lost 3-5 at home to Villarreal, Harvey announced that he would leave Barcelona by the end of the season. This was the first opportunity for Laporta to fire Harvey, because Harvey had shown that he could not bear the pressure and the team could not bear the pressure. In this case, it was justifiable for Porta to choose to fire Harvey, Because in some ways, coach Harvey has shown that he can't take charge of the team, but Laporta's choice is: "If not Harvey, I would have fired him."
Then, less than a month ago, Harvey went to Laporta's home and finally withdrew his decision to leave, and Laporta gave him his consent. Since Harvey has announced that he will leave the team at the end of the season, Laporta has the right to choose to make a plan without Harvey next season. But Laporta saw the team's performance rebound, and after showing competitiveness in the Champions League, he hoped that Harvey would stay, It was he who announced publicly to the media before Harvey: "All coaches who hope to coach Barcelona next season will wait for Harvey to make a final decision. All agents, including my friends ZaHarvey and Mendes, know my idea."
The problem is that Harvey has to plan for Barcelona next season after he decides to stay. This time Harvey does not want to compromise, but plans the team according to his own ideas. One of Harvey's problems this season is that he has accepted all the suggestions of President Laporta and has not adhered to his own ideas. For example, before the Champions League group game against Antwerp this season, Harvey had given the main players a holiday, but Laporta criticized him because the team had just lost to Girona, and Laporta believed that the team needed more training rather than rest. Finally, Harvey made a second list to go out and put back Jingduoan and Levan, who had planned to stay in Barcelona for rest, In the end, the team lost. The media reporter at that time took out a sentence from Cruyff that year and said: "If the head coach is obedient in the contest with the chairman, the team will torture the head coach in the end."
It can't be said that Harvey doesn't support the work of the club and Laporta. Everyone knows that Felix was forced to Barcelona through the relationship of Mendes, the agent. Harvey took all the responsibility at the first press conference, refuting that Felix is the chairman's choice rather than his choice, and admitting that Felix is his own choice. Harvey failed to persuade Busquets to stay for another year, but he hoped to bring in a high-level midfielder. The club brought him Romeu, who only had more than 3 million yuan, and Harvey did not make any noise. However, Harvey's grievances eventually backfired on him. Romeu showed his level at the beginning when he played against middle and lower level teams, but then kept losing goals against high-level teams, especially when De Jong was injured and did not help him, he showed a lack of confidence and eventually became a substitute, which led to an irreparable black hole in Barcelona's midfield, It was not until half a season later that Christensen was transformed into a middle back that he was slightly relieved. Although Felix showed his brilliance in the first 1/3 of the season, the problem that he could not play at a high level in a row was exposed again later. He lacked hard work in the game, did not defend according to the coach's requirements, and passed the ball at random everywhere. Finally, he became an unimportant substitute.
So when it came time to plan the team building plan for next season, Harvey realized that he had to change. As the coach, he could not just wipe the president's ass and silently accept all the pressure. But Harvey's will was not important as soon as he showed that the president was angry and was taken down.
On the whole, in the short term, since Laporta and Harvey can no longer trust each other, Harvey's winning is a necessary choice, otherwise the team will split between the coach and the chairman, and it is impossible to make any achievements. Harvey will be dismissed if he is not dismissed now and will not play several rounds next season, which also wastes Barcelona's time. In the long run, if Barcelona wants to go on the right path, it needs to change a more serious and organized president. Harvey should have his own opportunity when the time comes.
Liang Hongye, a full media reporter of Titan Sports Weekly, reports
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