How Flick turned Barcelona around since becoming manager

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Barcelona's first preseason friendly this summer ended in a penalty shootout win over Manchester City, but new coach Hansi Flick was not happy with how his side ended the game against the Premier League champions at the Camping World Stadium in Orlando.

"He was angry because we only pressed until the 70th minute," Barça president Joan Laporta revealed last week. "I like how demanding he is."

Sources tell ESPN that Laporta is "smitten" with Flick, a coach he has admired for a long time and had even previously tried to hire in 2021, when he first considered firing Ronald Koeman. Flick, manager of Bayern Munich at the time, had just accepted the German…