{"id":354093,"date":"2021-05-19T22:43:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=354093"},"modified":"2021-05-19T22:56:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:56:44","slug":"laliga-barcelona-president-laporta-takes-final-decision-on-manager-to-replace-koeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=354093","title":{"rendered":"LaLiga: Barcelona President, Laporta takes final decision on manager to replace Koeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona President, Joan Laporta, has decided on the manager to replace the club\u2019s current coach, Ronald Koeman.<br \/>\nAccording to Spanish radio station RAC1, Laporta has spoken to Bayern Munich boss, Hansi Flick, with regard to becoming Barcelona\u2019s next manager.<br \/>\nLaporta found Flick \u2018receptive\u2019 and liked the \u2018methodology and the intensity\u2019 he would bring to the Barcelona squad.<br \/>\nHe sees Flick as his first choice to replace Koeman at Camp Nou if the Dutchman was sacked.<br \/>\nKoeman is currently under intense pressure at Barcelona, having won just one of their last five La Liga games.<br \/>\nHe also saw his side crash out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage last February following a 5-2 aggregate defeat to Paris Saint-Germain.<br \/>\nBarcelona\u2019s draw with Levante and then defeat at home to Celta Vigo ended their hopes of LaLiga title success this season.<br \/>\nBarcelona can finish the LaLiga season no higher than the third position and could even drop to fourth place if they lose to Eibar this weekend.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Flick has an agreement to become the next Germany manager after Joachim Low leaves his role as national team coach after this summer\u2019s European Championships.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona President, Joan Laporta, has decided on the manager to replace the club\u2019s current coach, Ronald Koeman. According to Spanish radio station RAC1, Laporta has spoken to Bayern Munich boss, Hansi Flick, with regard to becoming Barcelona\u2019s next manager. Laporta found Flick \u2018receptive\u2019 and liked the \u2018methodology and the intensity\u2019 he would bring to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,16754,2398],"class_list":["post-354093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-laporta","tag-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/354094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}