Quique Setien has been chosen to take over as Barcelona coach from Ernesto Valverde.


The Barcelona board approved the decision for the 61-year-old to become the new Blaugrana boss unanimously, with the former Betis coach's stock having gone up since this morning.

Barring any surprises, Setien will become the new Barcelona boss.

A frenetic day at Barcelona began in the morning when Valverde took his last training session at noon, then president Josep Maria Bartomeu informed him that his time with the club was over.

By the afternoon, and after a tense board meeting, Setien was chosen as coach until June.

The contract details are yet to be finalised, but no problems are expected and Setien's agent is already in Barcelona.


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Meet The New Boss...


FC Barcelona and Quique Setién have reached an agreement for the latter to become first team coach until 30 June 2022.

Below are details of his presentation:

Tuesday, 14 January

- 1.30pm CET contract signing in the President Suñol box in a private event.

- 2.00pm, photo session on the pitch at Camp Nou.

- 2.30pm, presentation and press conference in the Auditori 1899.

The new coach

61 year old Quique Setién will be the new FC Barcelona coach. The man from Cantabria in the north of Spain comes to Barça after having had spells at Racing Santander, Poli Ejido, Logroñés, Lugo, Las Palmas and Betis, his previous club in the 2018/19 season. Throughout his career he has been a proponent of possession based, attacking football that has been attractive to the fans.

As a player Setién was a midfielder who excelled with Racing Santander over 12 seasons in two separate spells. He also featured for Atlético Madrid where he won the Spanish Super Cup as well as enjoying spells at Logroñés and Levante.

Vast experience

Quique Setién is one of the most experienced coaches in Spanish Football. The coach from Santander started his managerial career at his home town club of Racing Santander, helping them to promotion to the Spanish top flight in 2002. After a spell out of the game, Setién returned to take over at Logroñés, a club he had represented as a player in the first division of Spanish Football, but he was unable to avoid relegation to the Third Division.

Barça’s new coach then moved on to Galician club Lugo and he gained promotion to the Second Division A in 2012. After a total of six seasons with Lugo, he joined first division side Las Palmas where he stayed for two campaigns. In 2017 he signed for Andalusian club Betis where he guided them to sixth place in the league and place in the Europa League in his first season in charge. Setién’s second campaign with the Seville based club saw him take the team to the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey before departing in the summer of 2019.



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Oops, they need mourinho

So the dwarf couldn't help Barca becoming a laughing stock?

Don't compare him with my CR7 ever again plz.