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HOW DID IT HAPPEN?

‘THE FINAL STRAW CAME WHEN BARCELONA FAILED TO WIN THE FIRST TWO FIXTURES OF 2020. VALVERDE WAS SACKED THE FOLLOWING MONDAY’

or the first time in 17 years, Barcelona have changed coach in the middle of the season. Not since dismissing Louis van Gaal in January of 2003 had the Catalan club witnessed a change in the dugout in the middle of a campaign, while they hadn’t even fired anyone since then as Radomir Antic, Frank Rijkaard, Pep Guardiola, Tito Vilanova, Gerardo Martino and Luis Enrique had all left on their own terms or in a mutual parting of the ways. Given the situation down the road at Real Madrid, where mid-season firings have become normal, this loyalty to the coaches was a matter of

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