Sergi Barjuan will be the next Barcelona B coach, multiple sources, including Onze and Mundo Deportivo, confirm.
What do we know about the 49-year-old?
He's a big friend of Laporta
The two have quite a warm relationship with each other and Barjuan always backed Laporta to win the election.
Joan Laporta announced Sergi joining his board but there were actually no vacancies at the club for Barjuan. Now that Pimienta's leaving the club, the former Barca star will get a job.
He spent much time at Barca
The former left-back was part of Blaugrana between 1988 and 2002. After that, the ex-Spain international left the club for Atletico Madrid where he hung his boots.
In 2009, Barjuan came back to Camp Nou to train Barca U18 for 2 years.
He hasn't succeeded as manager yet
Barjuan has managed Recreativo, Almeria and Mallorca but none of these stints ended up being successful.
Things got slightly better at the Chinese second-tier side Greentown but it's obviously not something a future Barca B boss should be proud of.
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Pimienta has worked at Barcelona since 2006 and was even among the candidates to replace Ernesto Valverde and Ronald Koeman in the first team.
Pimienta twice led Barca B to the Segunda playoffs but failed to achieve promotion.
Pimienta: 'There are players who have Barca DNA but aren't given chances'
"Riqui Puig was made to play for Barcelona," Barca B boss Garcia Pimienta has told Beteve.
"Barca must always be prepared to look for the best talents, as long as it improves what they have at the academy [La Masia]. Sometimes, a lot of players have problems adapting to the way we play.
"There are also cases, like Ronald Araujo's, who have shown they can play in the first team. Maybe we made a mistake with some signings, but there are players who have the profile [to play for Barca] and aren't given chances.
"What is true is that the home players have an advantage over those foreigners because they [foreigners] find it very difficult to adapt," Pimienta concluded.
Pimienta possibly takes a jibe at Ronald Koeman here. As we all know, the Dutchman has given few chances to Riqui Puig, opting for either Pedri or Ilaix Moriba instead.
On Saturday, Pimienta declared his desire to be in charge of the first team one day.
