Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde named All Football Coach of April

Barcelona boss Ernesto Valverde has been named All Football Coach of the Month for March.

Valverde leads our All Football Coach of the Month five-man list of nominees, beating Liverpool coach Klopp, Ajax coach Ten Hag & Co to the award with the most votes cast from AFers.

After beating Levante 1-0 at the Camp Nou, Ernesto Valverde has delivered another LaLiga title to Barcelona, and his management of the squad has been perfect this season, showing that he has learnt from the mistakes of the 2017/18 campaign.

The 55-year-old has won the 2017/18 and 2018/19 league titles, a record that only Luis Enrique, Pep Guardiola, Louis van Gaal, Helenio Herrera and Enrique Fernández can match.

Now, his tally is four: two LaLiga, a Spanish Super Cup, a Copa del Rey, and there could be more to come this season.

Roma defeat still hurting, but Valverde already learnt from it, balance and rotate his squad in league and Champions League. After 4-4 Villarreal draw and 0-0 Huesca draw, Barcelona get a crucial win against Atletico in their LaLiga title pursue and reach UCL semis with 3-0 win over Man Utd.

Ernesto Valverde is a different coach, with a different skill set and different priorities. But he's still the man who accomplished a tremendous feat, navigating the trauma of Neymar's departure and succession, managing the veterans -- six of this starting XI are now in their 30s -- and creating the sort of environment that allowed Messi to be Messi.

What Pep Guardiola managed in 2009 and Luis Enrique repeated in 2015, Ernesto Valverde could achieve this season.

Three trebles – league, cup and Champions League – in one decade would be extraordinary. And it would be with three very different coaches.

LaLiga already in hand, two more to go for Valverde's men, the treble season is near?