Kimmich, Flick’s central player

The main priority in the transfer market for the Barça sports management is to strengthen their stronghold position.. The arrival of Guido Rodriguez from Betis with a letter of freedom is taken for granted, but Another player needs to emerge to become undisputed in central midfield, where Hansi Flick usually deploys two players, a double center in his most commonly used 4-2-3-1 formation..

Number one on Xavi’s list was Joshua Kimmich, whose contract with Bayern Munich expires in 2025 and remains unrenewed. And this same name is the main priority of the successor to coach Terrassa. He knows him very well, since both played for Bayern and the German national team. And he has always trusted him to play as a holding position and has used him very little as a right-back, a position the German has been playing in lately..

Flick sees Kimmich as a central midfielder, as the numbers show. Kimmich made 73 appearances with Flick at Bayern, starting 65 of them as a central midfielder, almost always forming a double pivot with Goretzka.. Otherwise, he played six times as a right-back and was used twice as a resource in central defense by Flick. Almost every time he played on the side (a position Kimmich knows very well), he had to cover Pavard’s absence, such as in the final stages of the Champions League in Lisbon, which Bayern eventually won. As a striker, he played against Barça with a score of 2:8 and scored a goal.

The German national team has only one appearance in the lineup. Flick always trusted Kimmich as a central midfielder. Sometimes, as at Bayern, with Goretzka, but most often with the player who wears the Barça uniform, Ilkay Gundogan..

Both could repeat their partnership as Barca mainstays if the Barca team manages to sign them. Deco now has an ally to achieve this goal, although, as SPORT explained this week, Barca’s sporting management’s first approach to Kimmich was not satisfactory in terms of the financial proposal.