Busquets starts coaching at Barça Atlètic

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Sergio Busquets moving into coaching with Barça Atlètic is a pretty classy bit of news. It feels like the sort of club move that makes sense for everyone involved, especially if he wants to learn the ropes properly rather than jump straight into the big job.

There is always a bit of romance when a club legend comes back in a new role, and Busquets is exactly the kind of figure you can imagine younger players learning loads from. Whether he ends up being a top coach or not is another question, but as a starting point it looks smart.

Some people will already be talking about the first team job one day, others will just be happy to see him back around the place. Either way, it has the feel of a proper Barça story, for better or worse.
 
People are acting like this is some obvious downgrade or some grand admission he is not ready but honestly this is exactly how it should be done if you actually care about developing as a coach, not just rocking up and demanding the big job because you were a legend on the pitch, Busquets has always been intelligent, always been the brain of the side, and if anyone can learn the trade properly by working with young players and understanding the day to day of coaching it is him, not every ex-player needs to sprint straight into the first team seat and pretend they know everything, this is the patient route and it is the right one
 
Honestly this is the kind of thing that makes me weirdly happy, not because I know what kind of coach he will be but because it feels like a proper full circle moment and I can already imagine the headlines if it goes well and people start saying he was always destined for it
 
I think this is genuinely a sensible step for him. He does not need to go straight into a massive job and get judged off one bad spell, and Barça Atlètic is a decent place to learn the craft while still being around the same footballing culture that shaped him. If he takes to coaching the way he took to reading the game as a player, then you can absolutely see why people are already talking about a future first team role. But football is football, and being a genius on the pitch does not automatically mean you can coach, so I would still keep the hype in check a bit, even if the idea is exciting and it feels like the start of something proper for the club and for him
 
The officials will probably be watching his every move as well because if this club gets anything going they always find a way to make it about the ref, the decisions, the standards, the whole bloody circus around Barça and then everyone acts shocked when the focus goes off the football, Busquets deserves a clean start here without some nonsense hanging over it and if the club are serious about building a proper coaching pathway then the people in charge need to back him and stop making every single thing into a drama with the suits and the match officials and the media all piling in like usual
 
Nah I dont buy that at all, moving into Barça Atlètic is exactly the sort of thing a smart ex player should do if he actually wants to learn the job properly and not just get handed everything because of his name, this is the opposite of lazy in my view and people are chatting nonsense
 
It is a nice story, and it also makes sense from a development point of view. A player like Busquets can pass on a huge amount just by being around the younger lads every day.

Whether he ends up as a first-team coach is impossible to know, but this is a sensible place to start.
 
this is actually a good move imo because he gets to learn without all the pressure and the young lads will probably soak up everything he says, people always want ex players to skip the queue but this is how you build something proper and not just a headline
 
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