Barcelona | Ronald Koeman questioned Quique Setién about the way he set out the matches by using Frenkie De Jong and Antoine Griezmann in another position | Barca transfers

The re-foundation operation in Barcelona began with the designation of Ronald Koeman as a new coach. The Dutchman will be in charge of reconfiguring a competitive team to fight not only in LaLiga Santander, also in the Champions League, the great objective of the club and the one that has exposed the shortcomings of its previous project.

And the first thing he will do Koeman it will be to decide which players will stay for the following season. For example, Antoine Griezmann, who cost the Catalans more than 100 million dollars, was listed as one of the possible expendable players because he could not match with Barcelona what was shown in Atlético Madrid or France.

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However, for Ronald Koeman this had to do with the position in which he used Quique Setien to the forward ‘Gallic’. For this reason, during an interview with NOS Voetbal, the new ‘culé’ coach shot at his predecessor, who placed the Frenchman as a winger and not in his natural position: as a half point or second striker.

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“With all due respect, Griezmann is not a winger. He needs to play where he has played all his life, with all his qualities. That’s why I think this is the most important thing for a coach: knowing his players and being able to get the most out of them. , and that begins by putting them in their position, “he said.

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Another one that Koeman believes was not playing in his natural position is his compatriot Frenkie De Jong. And is that for the strategist, the former Ajax has shown in his old club and Dutch team that he can play even better by acting where he always did.

“My idea is that Frenkie plays like in Ajax and in the Dutch national team. One day I went to Barcelona to watch a Barça game and I saw him in a position that I thought: ‘I would never put him there’. When you invest in a player that has cost so much money you have to make him play in his position, where he does have the efficiency expected of him. I think that Frenkie has already shown in Ajax and in the national team what his position is, “he said.

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