In spite of enduring one of the first starts to a season in the club’s history, Barcelona players were royally gifted by the club’s president.
Barcelona have not been enjoying their best run of form of late and only claimed their first win of 2020 after three attempts, courtesy of Lionel Messi’s composed finish versus Granada on Sunday evening.
Quique Setien’s debut was off to a flyer and that was certainly a morale boosting win for the Blaugrana, who continue to lead La Liga Santander.
Ernesto Valverde’s firing just five days prior to the match meant that the former Real Betis manager did not have much time to make his new side adapt to his imprint, but he certainly did a good job from the dugout in his first game in charge of the club. That being said, all this was surely down to the double sessions which were held during the week.
Diario AS has reported that despite the club having started off the season in a turbulent manner, Josep Maria Bartomeu did keep his promises from last season by awarding the players with gifts ahead of the Christmas period. That was obviously when Ernesto Valverde was in the dugout, and not Quique Setien.
All of the Barca players and other staff members closely linked with the squad were gifted a watch manufactured by Swiss company Zenith thought to be worth 10000 euros each. This was in light of the club winning La Liga last season. This is a custom that was followed even in the season prior to the last, when everyone was gifted Bulgari watches.
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In addition to that, Barca’s squad members were also gifted with the iPhone 11 Pro Max and iPads following their 4-1 victory over Eibar as Christmas presents. While the players decided to have themselves the mobile phones, the iPads were for the other staff members who worked behind-the-scenes to ensure that the Catalans are at their brilliant best.