After a 4-0 drubbing at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday evening, Luis Enrique's position as manager of Barcelona has come under serious scrutiny.
The Spaniard is expected to part ways with the club at the end of the season and now the Catalan giants will have to begin a recruitment drive to source out the ideal replacement.
Spanish football expert Guillem Balague has had his say on who he believes would be the ideal candidate for Barca in order to revive the slick tiki-taka football which made them so great.
Mauricio Pochettino is a potential candidate but Balague believes Sevilla coach, Jorge Sampaoli, would be the best choice for the La Liga giants.
"Sampaoli is another situation - Juanma Lillo, his assistant, was key in the developing of Pep Guardiola as a coach, based especially on his ideas about the positional game", Balague said, as perSky Sports.
"So Sampaoli would be a good choice," he added. "He is on their shortlist, but he is not the only one. He has a buyout clause of £1.35m, so if anyone wants him they will have to pay that. But I am pretty sure he is open to the idea of going to Barcelona.
"Neymar wanted him to become the Brazilian national coach recently and also has been privately having meals with him, even hosting him in his house near Barcelona. Lionel Messi also likes him and has told him so, while Luis Suarez would also give his vote of confidence to Sampaoli if he was the chosen one.
"But as I said, he is not the only one on the shortlist of Barcelona and the board would like to choose without the influence of players, if that is possible at all. Another name on that shortlist is Ernesto Valverde from Athletic Bilbao, who twice in the last six years has been on Barcelona's shortlist, but they ended up getting other coaches."
Barcelona take on Leganes on Sunday evening in a bid to get back to winning ways and attempt to keep pace with La Liga leaders and bitter rivals, Real Madrid.