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TA analyzes the reason why Alemani left: Decaux Arrival & club sports structure adjustment

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Live broadcast on August 17, Barcelona officially announced that Decaux was the club’s sports director, and the former sports director Alemani would leave after the summer window. The Athletic author analyzed The possible reasons for Alemani’s departure, which was related to The arrival of Decaux and The adjustment of The club’s sports structure.

As an executive, Decaux’s story in Barcelona was associated with Alemani from the beginning. When Alemani announced his departure in early May, the club began to look for new candidates to take his place, and Laporta thought Decaux was the best choice. The decision to introduce Decaux also led to the departure of little Cruyff. In the first two seasons, little Cruyff had been working with Alemani and they had a very close relationship with Harvey.

In an interview in June, a source from Barcelona was asked about The cooperation model between Alemani, little Cruyff and Harvey. He revealed to The Athletic: “We have a structure, everyone knows exactly what we have to do and how to operate together.”

Alemani is responsible for negotiating with potential new players or existing players in the team, little Cruyff was the first person to contact potential signing players and reveal Harvey and his coaching team’s vision for their football. These two sports directors are described as “good police and bad police” (little Cruyff is a good police).

Barcelona appointed Decaux, who was still serving as a football agent at that time, to replace Little Cruyff in theory, who would leave after the contract expired on June 30, but in fact, this was not the case. Laporta promised Decaux in early May that he would become the main figure in Barcelona’s sports management, when Alemani seemed to be far away from the club.

In addition, Laporta also asked Deco to stop acting as a broker. During the transfer to Barcelona Rafinha last summer, Deco played an important role as a broker for Rafinha. The latter rejected Chelsea’s interest and transferred to Camp Nou with Decaux’s participation.

Decaux accepted Laporta’s request to leave the brokerage company. On June 30 this year, his D20 Sports company officially announced its closure. Becoming the main figure in Barcelona’s recruitment department was an unacceptable good opportunity. For Alemani, less than a month after announcing his departure in early May, he called Laporta and asked for a private lunch meeting.

There, Alemani revealed that he regretted his decision and asked to stay. Although Laporta was glad to accept Alemani’s request, it was not surprising that the Decaux camp did not have the same enthusiasm for the news. Because Decaux has made up his mind to become Barcelona’s main role in recruiting, he does not intend to lower his position.

As one of the greatest forces in potential discussions, he worked behind the scenes all summer and showed his ideas to the club without hesitation. A Barcelona source said: “Decaux asked us to have all the power”.

In addition, some other sources revealed that the trust between the club and Alemani broke down after the Aston Villa incident.

(Ma Dongyu)

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