Lower confirmed in Hansi Flick's working team

BarcelonaHansi Flick's renewal until 2028 has brought a downside related to his staff of work. His Barça has finished the season with two more titles in the bag, the Spanish Super Cup and the League, and also the feeling of having gained defensive solidity, as demonstrated by the fact that Joan Garcia has won the Zamora Trophy. But these great news have coexisted with the repeated complaints in the locker room about the accumulation of injuries, which some heavyweights of the team have associated with deficient physical preparation. As a result of this unease, the German coach asked those responsible at Barça for a change in this department. The request has become a reality: Julio Tous, hired two summers ago, will stop working with the first team. "Between Hansi and Julio, Jan [Laporta] has chosen Hansi. He had no other option," they explain in this newspaper from Sant Joan Despí.

Two weeks ago, ARA already explained that Flick's request was very serious. Initially, Deco and Alejandro Echevarría, Tous's main supporters, intended to keep him in the first team staff even if he lost daily responsibilities. In the end, however, the solution will be for the professional of Canarian origin to keep his fee of the first template even if it lost attributions in daily life. Finally, however, the solution will be that the professional of Canarian origin keeps the The final decision will not be made by Hansi Flick

As Tous's dismissal has reached the sector, there isn't a day that goes by without the Barça receiving offers from different physical trainers. Professionals with extensive experience in Germany such as Holger Broich and Oliver Bartlett have been mentioned. Flick worked with Broich in his historic season at Bayern (2019-20) and knows Bartlett from shared periods at the German Football Federation (DFB). Neither of them will land in Barcelona to strengthen the team, as Blaugrana sources acknowledge to ARA. The choice, as advanced by RAC1 and corroborated by this newspaper, is heading towards Catalan or Spanish profiles who master the locker room language and know Barça well. Among the candidates who have been studied in recent days is Edu García, known in Sant Joan Despí for having independently worked with Eric Garcia and Ferran Torres. He has many followers in the squad, but internally there are doubts about whether it is advisable to listen so much to the players in such a sensitive measure.

The vacancy that Tous will leave in the first team is still to be filled and the final decision on his replacement will not be made by Flick alone, but will be agreed upon with the rest of the sporting commission. Be that as it may, the change of guard in the physical preparation department is seen in the locker room as a triumph of a campaign marked by complaints about post-injury readaptations and also about day-to-day work. Important players like Raphinha, Lamine Yamal or Eric Garcia raised their voices against Tous's methods and have managed to get Flick to pressure for the objective to be materialized. The preseason will begin on July 13 with renewed spirits at the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper first and then with a stay in English lands to prepare for the next season.