Joan Laporta met with the Barcelona players this afternoon following the sacking of Ronald Koeman.
Koeman was sent packing on Wednesday night after Barca made it back-to-back defeats with a loss to Rayo Vallecano.
The Dutchman had been in charge since August 2020, but his spell has now come to an almost inevitably early end after months of intense pressure.
The search has already begun for his replacement, and it looks as though former midfielder and current Al-Sadd boss Xavi Hernandez will be the man to take charge.
But in the meantime, Laporta has met with the players at the club’s Cuitat Esportiva training base.
📸 | Joan Laporta talking to the players earlier today.pic.twitter.com/q5XibNo2wF
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As you can see on the image above, Laporta spoke to the players in the dressing room of the training base.
The Barcelona president made the visit to explain the situation and the next steps to the players.
Koeman also visited the training base today to gather his belongings and to say goodbye to his players.
I’m very happy to sacked koeman and iam also happy to dicided xavi as a new manager of FBC NEVER GIVE UP
In term of koeman being sack, am not happy he was the right coach in fcb.
all he want was time to build the team since messi was no more.
you must be joking my guy
Dat nice
you guys are crazy
Barca board should try and do everything that will bring xavi as the manager
XAVY WILL MOVE THE TEAM FOWARD
LOL…Xavi replacing Koeman is no upgrade dipsh*t’s. I feel good for Koeman to be out of that gong show…he gave so much to Barca as a player and got stuck with managing a mess due to bad Execs. So many idiot Barca fans think he’s the problem…soooo stupid!! Koeman will be in a better place sooner than Barca!!