Garcia Pimienta 'hurt, p***ed off' by Barcelona sacking | OneFootball

Javi Garcia Pimienta admits he feels "p***ed off" with his sacking by Barcelona.

The former Barca B coach was dumped by new president Joan Laporta and replaced with Sergi Barjuan over the summer. A former winger with Barca, Garcia Pimienta spent three years in charge of Barca B. During that time, he oversaw the promotion to the first team of the likes of Oscar Mingueza, Ansu Fati and Riqui Puig.

As such, Garcia Pimienta felt he was poorly treated by the new board given his results.

Via AS, Garcia Pimienta told Mundo Deportivo: "At the end of May and with one more year on my contract, Alexanco, one of the people who I've trusted the most in my career and to whom I am very grateful, confirmed that I was continuing.

"Two weeks later, (Rafael) Yuste told me that I was leaving and thanked me for the job. It was a total surprise. I was working on the new season, the day before I was watching Youth A win the League and that Friday I thought I was going to a planning meeting. Until I got there and they fired me. The only thing they told me was that they wanted their people to come in, that there were no other reason.

"(I feel) hurt, sad, p***ed off ... I think they were not the correct ways, it was not fair. The work that has been done at Barça B in recent seasons has been brutal and it is not understood."

Indeed, Garcia Pimienta insists he was wrongly judged for on-field results rather than the players his coaching produced for the first team. Barca B again missed out on promotion to the Segunda Division after their playoffs defeat last season.

He also stated: "When you have so many high-level players who end up playing in the first team, I think the goal has been met. But people are passing by. Those who are there now, who were the ones who signed me 15 years ago, decided that I should not continue. This happens and now it's time to look to the future."

Garcia Pimienta currently remains out of football. He has spent his entire coaching career with Barcelona, spanning from 2006 to this year.

- updated September 1