Just two days after ending a first season in six years without a major trophy, Barcelona have turned to one of their own and appointed former captain Luis Enrique as new coach.
The move to go for someone who has plenty of playing and coaching experience at the club comes as little surprise after an ill-fated season for Argentine Gerardo Martino.
Hired just two weeks before the campaign began because of Tito Vilanova's sudden resignation as he fought a battle with cancer, Martino proved to be out of his depth at one of the biggest clubs in the world.
Whilst he was winning at the beginning of the season, Martino's preference for a more direct style of play came under criticism.
In the second part of the campaign as the results got progressively worse, it was his inability to man-manage the conflicting egos within the squad that came under the spotlight.
The Barca board's bet is that Enrique can fulfil both these criteria. He made over 200 appearances for the club in six years after joining from eternal rivals Real Madrid in 1996 and also had great success in three seasons in charge of Barca B coach.
The 44-year-old succeeded Pep Guardiola as Barca B coach and led them back to the second tier of Spanish football for the first time in 11 years in his second season.
Crucially, Enrique also has a hard side that will allow him to take a more disciplinarian stance than that offered by Martino as standards started to slip over the past six months.
However, unlike Guardiola, he is taking over a club in transition with many key players leaving or coming towards the end of their time in the Catalan capital rather than their prime.
Enrique's task is to mould Barca's disparate collection of younger stars, led by Neymar and Lionel Messi, into a side that can once again dominate on the domestic and European stage.
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