Stoichkov To Assist Guardiola?

Guardiola and Stoichkov played together for five years as part of Johan Cruyff's 'Dream Team' era at the Camp Nou and could now be set to link up once more according to a report in 'Meridian Mach'.

The Bulgarian daily's "secret sources" suggest that Stoichkov has already entered into a verbal agreement with Barça to take up the position as assistant to Guardiola and will travel to Barcelona early next week to put pen to paper on the contract.

Stoichkov has coaching experience from his three year spell in charge of the Bulgarian national team and a short stint at Celta Vigo, where he was unable to save the team from relegation to the Segunda Division.

He has suggested in recent weeks that the club should seriously look into signing Tottenham Hotspur's Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov, who was one of ten players that 'Sport' reported as being Barça's transfer targets for the summer.

The 42 year old is currently in Sofia to take part in a match to commemorate the 60th anniversary of CSKA Sofia - the club at which his career really began to take off. He is joined by businessmen from the city of Barcelona, who are contemplating the construction of a solar power plant in the area.


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