to understand why culers would be so upset for alexia going to LCL, it's time to talk about michele kang and her serious obsession with dismantling barça.
over the last three years and since lyon's loss in bilbao, kang has taken:
jona giráldez (former head coach of femení)
markel zubizarreta (former sporting director and architect of what barça femení is today)
gonzalo rodríguez (former first team manager of femení)
ingrid engen (to ol lyonnes)
jana fernández (to lcl)
lucía corrales (left in a last minute deal and we had to scramble to fill her spot with la masia)
mapi león (not officially announced but that's the landing destination)
you don't have to be a longtime fan to know how the loss of those on the staff has hurt the team, and now the potential loss of salma (excellent form) and alexia (the best player in the world at the moment) looms large.
her mantra is: "if you can't beat them on the pitch, destroy them off the pitch." and the more she loses, the more aggressive she is in who she goes after 😵💫
maria tikas explains it all below:
source: diario sport
michele kang is obsessed with barça. the first thing michele kang did when hse got involved, and this is my view today, the first thing michele kang did when he got involved in women’s football was to sign jonathan giráldez, take on part of the staff, then markel, the architect of barça, who then also signed gonzalo for london city, and now they’ve gone for mapi. her obsession is to take everything she can from barça; she wants to copy all of barça’s success.
and michele, there’s one thing you can’t buy, and that’s barça’s identity and the fans, the connection with all of this. and you can’t buy that with money.
