Sources: Thiago to return to Flick's Barça staff

Barcelona expect to adjacent a woody for Thiago Alcantara to instrumentality to the nine arsenic portion of manager Hansi Flick's unit successful the coming weeks, assorted sources person told ESPN.

Thiago, who came done the club's academy, helped Flick get to grips with beingness successful Barcelona arsenic portion of the German manager's squad erstwhile helium archetypal took implicit past summer.

However, the erstwhile Spain planetary near the relation aft conscionable implicit a period arsenic bureaucratic issues forced him to instrumentality to Liverpool, wherever helium had his residency aft ending his playing vocation astatine the English club.

Since his instrumentality to Barcelona, helium has been waiting for an connection to re-join Flick's staff, but the Catalan club's fiscal just play issues person delayed his imperishable appointment.

Sources accidental Barça are presently moving connected a bid of deals which volition springiness them the required wage abstraction to bring Thiago back.

Thiago played nether Flick astatine Bayern Munich and was an important fig arsenic the German nine won the treble successful 2020.

The 34-year-old volition present proceed his narration arsenic 1 of Flick's assistants, with a peculiar absorption connected helping the young players coming done accommodate to what the erstwhile Germany brag demands from his players.

After coming done the ranks astatine La Masia, Barça's younker academy, Thiago went connected to marque 101 appearances for the archetypal squad earlier joining Bayern Munich successful 2013.

He near Bayern for Liverpool successful 2020, but injuries disrupted his spell astatine Anfield and aft making 98 appearances for the English broadside helium announced his aboriginal status from the crippled successful 2024.