Former Barcelona manager accuses club of not paying his compensation 

Barcelona sacked Xavi Hernandez last season with Hansi Flick appointed as his successor. The Catalonia club are in good form winning all their five La Liga matches played so far.

However, Barcelona’s financial crisis seems to be taken a toll on the club. According to the club former manager, Quique Setien, Barcelona are yet to pay his compensation fee, four years after he was sacked.

Quique Setien managed Barcelona during 2020 and even led them in their infamous 8-2 defeat to eventual UEFA Champions League winners in that campaign, Bayern Munich.

The former Barcelona, Real Betis, and Villarreal coach has given an interview recently and has talked about several things related to his time at Barça. As highlighted by Mundo Deportivo, this also includes his statement regarding some of his dismissal-based compensation.

Quique Setien (Photo by Michael Regan – UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images)

“I still haven’t received all the money Barcelona owes me. However, there is a deadline at the end of this month, four years later.“

However, beyond this dispute of his, the former coach for La Blaugrana has also stated that his time at the club was worthwhile to him despite the negativity that surrounds his tenure there, even saying that it was ‘something special’:

“Of course it was worthwhile; for me, given my passion for football, coaching Barça was something special. It’s the pinnacle, being able to coach a team that plays the way you like, without having to start from scratch with something they haven’t done before. I learned many things at Barça that I still apply.”

Setien also noted that coaching Lionel Messi is an experience that he agrees is something not everyone can boast about:

“Indeed, not everyone can. It was an extraordinary experience.“

At the moment, Setien remains without a club and his last official stint as a manager was with Villarreal before he was dismissed in late 2023.