{"id":10106,"date":"2020-09-18T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=49604"},"modified":"2020-09-18T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T08:48:00","slug":"former-fc-barcelona-coach-quique-setien-to-sue-club-over-contract-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/former-fc-barcelona-coach-quique-setien-to-sue-club-over-contract-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FC Barcelona coach Quique Setien to sue club over contract dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Barcelona coach Quique Setien along with three of his assistants announced on Thursday, that they would be suing the club for failing to fulfil the terms of their contracts after being sacked almost a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement with assistants Eder Sarabia, Jon Pascua and Fran Soto released on his official <em>Twitter<\/em> account, Setien said he had only received written notice of the termination of his contract on September 16, having been sacked on August 17. He said he had not received any compensation from the club a month after being sacked.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Setien says Bartomeu never spoke to him about terms of sacking, just yesterday he received written dismissal, without any mention of settlement of contract. So he and fellow coaches are taking club to court. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j1LyuibzlJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/j1LyuibzlJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dermot Corrigan (@dermotmcorrigan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dermotmcorrigan\/status\/1306636783753592832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1562741015059-0\" class=\"dfp-ad mbot\" data-google-query-id=\"CLWjtJii8usCFdvacwEdKkIF4w\">\n<div class=\"home-content-p\">\n<div id=\"content-body-26989124-32636239\">\n<p>Setien was appointed Barcelona coach in January after Ernesto Valverde was dismissed but he was sacked in August after the team ended the season empty handed and lost 8-2 to Bayern Munich in the Champions League semi-final, the club\u2019s worst ever defeat in European competition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAfter a month of absolute silence from Barcelona\u2019s board of directors, and after diverse demands on our behalf, we did not receive any communication from the club until receiving a letter yesterday via burofax (recorded delivery),\u201d<\/strong> said the statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSaid letter revealed the clear intention from the club to not comply with contracts we signed on January 14 2020.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The statement added: <strong>\u201cGiven everything expressed above, we have felt the need for our lawyers to find a solution to this conflict and take the corresponding legal action, in order to preserve our rights and everything we had previously agreed with Barcelona.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Barcelona's La Liga opener against Villarreal could have an important absence: Ronald Koeman. The RFEF hasn't been able to register the Dutch coach yet, because there's a dispute between Barcelona and Seti\u00e9n over the settlement of the year remaining he had on his contract. [cope] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vp69cn1yHg\">pic.twitter.com\/vp69cn1yHg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 barcacentre (@barcacentre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barcacentre\/status\/1306488489899421696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This dispute also means that the current manager of FC Barcelona, Ronald Koeman would have to take charge of the team from the stands as he will not be allowed on the touchline for the club\u2019s season opener against Villarreal as he is yet to be registered officially due to the unclear circumstances of Setien\u2019s sacking.<\/p>\n<p>Setien\u2019s complaint piled yet more pressure on president Josep Maria Bartomeu, less than an hour after a group seeking his removal announced they had gathered enough signatures to force a vote of no-confidence against him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row nopad nomargin\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 bkg-white\">\n<div class=\"ad-banner text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row adv-container\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"ad-banner text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sqj\" class=\"spr-qa\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 py-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Barcelona coach Quique Setien along with three of his assistants announced on Thursday, that they would be suing the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":32614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-10106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-fc-barcelona"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}