Barcelona Aare hunting for a new head of their reconnaissance department, where the sitting Paulo Araujo would leave the club after three years in the role. The Portuguese can be moving to the Premier League.
Araujo, 55, arrived in 2022 as a lot of surprise, with some pointing on his relatively short CV in the area. The Portuguese, who was previously in sports marketing, only had three years of experience on which Burnley was employed between 2019 and 2022, despite the reins with the Catalan giants. Sport says he will leave with great affection, with Barcelona who regards him as a plus.
The Catalan says every day that there are people in the club who believe that more should have been done to hold Araujo. He is credited for rearranging the reconnaissance system and giving Barcelona's talent spotters more freedom, while also modernizing internal processes. Director of Football Deco, who has recommended him for the role, is now charged with his replacement. The Blaugrana have been linked to former West Ham United and Bayer Leverkusen-Man Tim in recent months.
Sport also says that Arajo has many options as soon as he leaves Barcelona. This includes several offers in the Premier League, which undoubtedly entail lucrative contracts. Before he came to Barcelona, ​​Araujo also worked as a consultant in the UK.
In a statement about his time about his time in the club, Araujo explained that his three years had felt three days before he went to thank those who gave him the chance.
Thank you to President Joan Laporta for giving the opportunity to lead the exploration department at challenging times for the club, when the always busy to win was married to the well -known difficulties of the financial fair play.
But even with these difficulties, under the enormous leadership of the president, we were still able to win 2 LA Liga titles during my 3 full seasons, 2 supercopas from Spain, 1 Copa del Rey and reach the semi-final of the Champions League.
Also, many thanks to my friend from a long time, was Deco, who had the courage to invite a man who, although with a long history in sports organizations, was relatively unknown in the world of the football club.
I worked under the management of Mateu Alemany and Jordi Cruyff and in the past two years with Deco and Bojan Krkić and I have to say that I have learned a lot from these highly experienced football professionals about the branch of football.
I am sure that Deco, with his leadership of the football department, benefits from his experience in the game at the highest level, but with his very remarkable and strategic vision of football management, with the support of everyone at the club, the club will lead to many more important victories for the Barcelonistas.