Barcelona ‘know perfectly well’ where weaknesses lie as sporting director Deco dismisses ‘irrelevant’ concerns over Hansi Flick’s style in wake of Club Brugge slip
Deco’s comments were made as the squad trained at the still-under-renovation Camp Nou, a move designed to familiarise the team’s new faces with their future home.
The director noted the “spectacular” progress of the stadium and the squad’s anticipation of a return from their temporary home at Montjuic.
“All of us at the club who are still in Montjuic miss being here,” Deco said. “It feels like it was a magnificent stadium before, and now it’s even more so. There are memories, of course, but the most important thing is that we can return as soon as possible. It’s different playing here; the players have the same feeling.”
He also highlighted a remarkable statistic: that eight members of the current squad, many of them homegrown, have never played an official match at Camp Nou due to the two-and-a-half-year renovation.
“This is a sign that things have been done well, that there are homegrown players, from La Masia, and this is important and a good sign because in the last two and a half years that we’ve been away, we’ve been able to bring through important players from La Masia,” he said. “That’s what Barca is about; the president was looking for this project.”
