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Luis Enrique was the natural successor to many, but his candidacy began to lose steam as his career in Roma has not been as expected.

Still, still has defenders at the club and prominent members of the wardrobe, who know and admire him, would welcome that was chosen to replace Guardiola. (via MD)

At Roma coach, Spanish Luis Enrique, has dried up credit. The press loves him, the fans, who so far had supported him, crying out to go and the players are silent.

Although Roma sports director Franco Baldini, reiterated yesterday after losing 2-1 at home against Fiorentina that Luis Enrique does not play and a few days ago, after the humiliation of 4-0 against Juventus, repeated support society, it seems that the adventure of Luis Enrique at the Roma is over.

A few weeks ago, Luis Enrique claimed that he was very happy at the club and the city and would not rule out staying "up to 5 or 10 years", but this Sunday after the defeat of the season number 14 vented coach "You can rest assured that is one less day to get out of here. "

Words to reporters in recent days accused him of being to blame for the negative results of the club, which could even after several years even stay out of European competitions.

And today the Roman press not skimp on reviews and the "Corriere della Sera" four columns devoted to this: "I fight you're right it is just all your fault."

A holder who responded to the last news conference of Luis Enrique, in which the coach, with sarcasm, had told reporters: "I take my responsibility as coach from the first day you get to Trigoria (Roma training center ). It's all my fault. I have one hundred percent wrong. "

The romance with the press, who had hailed as the new (Pep) Guardiola has been broken, but also initiated the divorce with fans.
The bus from Roma had to wait several hours to leave the Stadium and made it through another exit face of protests from fans, but even so, some 200 fans surrounded the vehicle, shouting "You are a mercenary," "come out Luis" and "Where is the project?

Roma fans excited by the arrival of new shareholders and a young coach who would open a new era had forgiven the output of the previous stage of the Europa League, the two derbies against Lazio lost, including the two 4 goals conceded against Juventus, but the defeat against Fiorentina at the Olympic did it.

Before the game against Fiorentina in the stands was even a banner that read: "A real man in a world of fakes. Forward Luis".

The banner disappeared and instead just let the whistles, insults and the chorus calling for the departure of Luis Enrique.

In watching the game against Fiorentina, Luis Enrique had gone clung to the press: "The day that the company has no confidence in me I will go, the day that players do not follow me, I will go; the day in which the fans do not want me, I'll go, but I will not go because you (reporters) critiquéis me, "he added.

To join this disturbing words of one of the supporting columns of the team and fan favorite Daniele De Rossi: "I support the coach, but if society tells me he wants a coach to win the scudetto will be the first support you to leave Luis Enrique ". (via SPORT)

Besides Luis Enrique said "could go in Rome another 10 years," already feels "more Italian coach, and is" very comfortable both with the other coaches and with the press. "

Roma coach, Spanish Luis Enrique, today called on not to try to compare his team's game with Barcelona for his last as coach of azulgrana subsidiary. The ex Barcelona player has said that it is impossible to imitate the style of the team 'culé'.

"I'm not trying to play as Guardiola or as a Barcelona. Repeat this pattern of play, with that culture, with those players is impossible. Play mode you most about the win is what I think is pleasing to the amateur, a coral game, I have already been implemented and we do not know where it will lead. Our game model is that of Roma, which I brought, but not that of Barcelona, ​​"said the technician civil.

"The Barcelona game adapts to the characteristics of their players and that of Roma to their own. We can not do what Messi dribble 4 or 5 opponents, or as Xavi, Iniesta and Alves, pass the ball between 4 or 5 opponents without losing ever, "he added. Besides Luis Enrique said "could go at Roma another 10 years," already feels "more Italian coach, and is" very comfortable both with the other coaches and with the press. " (via AS)

It is spoken of as one of the forward-looking to the bench of Barça if Guardiola does not continue, but Luis Enrique just think 'Giallorosso'.

Luis Enrique is focused on his work in Roma, who heads the club since last summer. The Asturian does not know anything about the rumors that he would place on the bench for FC Barcelona: "Talking about future in football is a utopia, there is no future. The only sure thing is that society (Roma) has given me great confidence in the early tempoorada when things were not going as expected. If the company wants, I'll be very happy to stay until the end of my contract, "he told" Corriere della Sera '.

For now, the option of returning to lead the to Barça first team contemplates: "I have not changed. I'm the same person a few months ago. I'd rather not talk bad about me, but I do not pay much attention to what is said. " (via SPORT)

MD Internet users believe that the Asturian is the best candidate to succeed Pep.
The German Joachim Low and Argentine Marcelo Bielsa are the two best positioned.

Luis Enrique Martínez is the favorite coach of the barcelonismo to succeed Pep Guardiola on the bench azulgrana if the current Barça coach decides to give up his time in the first team. In a survey from 13.25 h. Wednesday in mundodeportivo.com, Internet Culès are opting overwhelmingly in favor of the candidacy of the Asturian, who after three years at Barça B now leads to Roma, which appears in fifth place in Serie A in Italy. On our Facebook page, readers of MD also are spoken.

With 2,000 votes, a figure that has reached to 17.33 h., Luis Enrique has 39 percent, significantly away from the next two candidates proposed by mundodeportivo.com, and interestingly the only two that ever relationship with FC Barcelona , Argentine Marcelo Bielsa (21%), Athletic coach, Joachim Low (17%), and Germany coach of his country. Bielsa and Low are the two most highly valued foreign coaches, Andoni Zubizarreta, sporting director of FC Barcelona. Both like their commitment to attacking football and intense for younger players.

In the voting list, follow them Òscar Garcia, who has announced that at the end of the season will leave the club but obviously it would reconsider its position if chosen, Michael Laudrup (6%), Ronald Koeman, coach of Feyenoord, and Ernesto Valverde, of Olympiacos (4%) and Eusebio Sacristán of Barça B (3%). (via MD)

Luis Enrique, Roma coach and former coach of Barça B, he expressed his desire to continue training Pep Guardiola Barca next season.

"The future of Guardiola? As friend and fan of Barcelona I would like to continue by himself and the club. It is a very intelligent person, is Catalan and has the feeling azulgrana inside, but has yet to decide his future and so clearly expressed, "said Luis Enrique to the Italian press, who asked the coach Asturian if you recommend Guardiola change of air toward the Alpine country.

"Long ago I have not spoken with him because he is always working hard. I work a lot and that I have a single competition. Italy knows well, has played in Roma and Brescia and also has an Italian better than mine ..." he joked Luis Enrique, who re-emphasized however that, for him, Guardiola would like to continue in the club azulgrana next season. (via SPORT)

Barça is aware that the style of the team should prevail over the names: the profile of possible replacement for Pep is well defined.

Pep Guardiola will not be the Barça coach next season is almost unimaginable scenario for the board, staff and the fans. But the fact remains that the situation requires the club to think about alternatives. The board has not set up any parallel negotiation or has planned to open other options because it is clear that the overriding priority is to wait for Guardiola, but in the offices of the club there is unanimity in defining the profile of the coach have to take over from Pep.

The philosophy and style of play are not discussed, so that the list of coaching candidates for the bench of the Camp Nou names like Luis Enrique, Òscar García, although you can leave the club at the end of the season to continue his learning, announced Catalunya Radio, or even long term, Xavi if he decided to make a career as a coach.

They would be the 'new guardiolas', ie young coaches prepared and attached to a touch football and possession, with an inescapable calling offensive and extremely knowledgeable about the intricacies of the club, a detail that the board and especially the sporting value. Luis Enrique, his first year living in Italy at the head of Roma, noted as a possible alternative to Pep. For many, it is the natural replacement for Guardiola, for his way of thinking about the game. The Asturian has already been relieved at Barça B, when Guardiola took the first team after rising to a subsidiary of Third to Second Division B. Luis Enrique took on the challenge of ascending to the team to Second Division A and succeeded in his second season. His football philosophy is similar to that of Pep, with a 4-3-3 as the base schema, although the Asturian coach gives more importance to the physical factor and is reputed to be a coach harder in the disciplinary aspect.

The name of Òscar García fleet in the environment as one of the natural successors of the current coach of Barça. The ex player of FC Barcelona, ​​Valencia and Espanyol, now coach of Juvenil is the assistant Johan Cruyff in the Catalan selection. Its harmony with the Dutch makes it the best representative of the style of play and possession of the Barça. Relations between policy Rosell and Cruyff not cross his best, but if the Dutch had to decide on the ideal relay Guardiola, put on the table the name of Òscar Garcia, who last season won all the titles at stake in Youth and the last few days his name sounds, Shakhtar Donetsk.

To his credit plays a profound knowledge of the quarry and the support of Guardiola, who is well aware of his opinion when players move up to youth and subsidiary.

And long-term thinking, a number of managers who would welcome an opportunity to give Xavi if the midfielder decides to become a football coach when you leave the active. This is a remote hypothesis, but many believe that the best way to preserve the DNA of the team. (via SPORT)

Last season, Luis Enrique led Barça B to a meritorious third place finish in Spain’s Segunda División. This season, with Eusebio Sacristán on the bench, the team is taking flight after an irregular summer and a tough start to the season.

With Pep Guardiola’s arrival to Barça B’s bench in the 2007/08 season, the Barça youth team left its losing ways by the wayside and earned their promotion to Second Division B. Two years later, thanks to the manager Luis Enrique, Barça B climbed one step further up the promotion ladder and earned their spot in Second Division. A year and a half later, the youth squad continues its fantastic run.

2011 saw best Barça B side in Club history. Luis Enrique led his squad to an impressive top three finish in Second Division, beating the previous all-time Barça B record for season finishes. Despite the team’s unquestionable quality, Barça B was not allowed to dispute the promotion play-offs because the first team was already in Spain’s top flight. Lucho’s [Luis Enrique] team was awarded the Fair Play award for their season-long exemplary conduct and Jonathan Soriano earned the Pichichi award with 32 goals.

At the end of the season, Luis Enrique decided it was time to manage elsewhere. Eusebio Sacristán took the reins from the Asturian with the goal of continuing to produce first team players and maintain Barça B’s divisional ranking.

A plethora of youth tournaments with the national side and the inclusion of many Barça B players in the first team’s season preparations led to an atypical preseason for Barça B, where many of its players were absent or arriving late due to international duties. Therefore, Eusebio didn’t have a full squad until September.

The atypical preseason and the loss of important players from the previous season, like Nolito - who now plays for Benfica - and Jonathan Soriano’s long term injury, were key factors in Barça B’s irregular start to the season.

At the start of the season, Barça B beat Huesca and Cartagena away from the Miniestadi, but they lost at home to Villareal B, Deportivo and Sabadell. Improving at the Mini has been one Barça B’s goals this season.

The team played great football, but some players showed their inexperience, seeing that many came from the Under-17 squad. The turning point came after the draw with Alcorcón and loss at home to Guadalajara in matchday 10. The Azulgranas occupied the 17th spot of the table and were dangerously close to the relegation zone. From that point, Eusebio Sacristán’s men went on a winning run, they managed to string four wins and two draws together in six matches. The streak was broken by Elche, the current League leaders.

Barça B ends the calendar year comfortably sitting in the middle of the table, with Rodri and Kiko Femenía fully integrated in the team’s dynamics and with a recovered Jonathan Soriano. The reserve side wants to improve and grow, their goal for the upcoming 2012 year is to improve the results at home and avoid losing points due to conceding goals in the final minutes of matches. (via FCBarcelona.cat)