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Report: Barcelona’s possible manager has five targets in mind

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An explosive report suggests one of Barcelona’s possible managers already has five transfer targets in mind if he arrives at the club soon. 

One of Barcelona’s possible managers is Erik Ten Hag, he is Joan Laporta’s favorite to take Ronald Koeman’s place. Also, he has an entire plan to start working on as soon as he arrives as the club’s next coach. However, there is still a major possibility this won’t happen because the president is also listening to pressure coming from the club’s board members. Most of them favor Xavi Hernandez as the ideal candidate to take the club’s hot seat as soon as humanly possible.

But Laporta only sees Ten Hag as the answer to fix all the club’s issues in the least amount of time possible. As of right now, the Dutch manager is focused on yet another brilliant start of the season with AFC Ajax. When he was recently asked about the possibility to coach FC Barcelona, the manager seemed angry at the reporter for asking the question. Despite all of this, Ten Hag must know that clubs as big as Barcelone only come knocking on your door once and it might never happen again. 

Ten Hag’s plan if he coaches Barcelona. 

According to El Nacional from Catalonia, Erik Ten Hag is getting his transfer plan ready for the time he possibly makes the decision to leave AFC Ajax. His main idea is to make it happen until next season but the club might urge him to arrive sooner than that. If Ronald Koeman keeps up with the negative results, he will have to make a choice. With this in mind, the report reveals that the Dutchman already has five players in mind for his new squad.

He allegedly wants Donny van de Beek, Matthijs de Ligt, Ryan Gravenberch, Dani Olmo, and obviously Erling Haaland. FC Barcelona currently doesn’t have money to pay for these transfers but getting rid of players might help. This report also confirms that Ten Hag wants to get Umtiti, Coutinho, Lenglet, Luuk de Jong, and Martin Braithwaite off the team as soon as he arrives. Do you think this will be possible for Erik Ten Hag to achieve if he arrives at FC Barcelona?

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