Barcelona's club president has not lost faith in coach Quique Setien, while leaving the door open for Xavi Hernández as a future coach. Josep Bartomeu told Spanish sports daily Sport in an interview that "at no moment did we think about a coaching change" despite Barcelona's poor finish to the Spanish league season.

Setién replaced Ernesto Valverde in January and Barcelona was top when the league was halted in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But his team stumbled once the competition resumed, and Real Madrid won its first title in three years. "When we hired him, we told him it was a project for this season and the next," Bartomeu said.