PETE JENSON: Cruyff is undaunted by the task of rebuilding Barcelona

It's not always easy for a son who has a famous father looking over his shoulder but Jordi Cruyff doesn't seem encumbered.

Sat beneath the image of Johan Cruyff, he appears inspired and emboldened by the task of rebuilding Barcelona.

Of his late father he says: 'He had the capacity to always find the positive in things. I was amazed by it. Even in the hardest moments of his life, he was an optimist. I'm sure his forecast for the future of Barca would be positive.'

Cruyff died six years ago on Thursday. He would have been 75 this April. His legacy lives on in the 'Cruyff courts' phenomenon – the small, enclosed football pitches built by his foundation in neighbourhoods all over the world.

And his impact at Barcelona is enduring too. Now his son Jordi is the club's technical secretary.

It's going well. Bringing in three players from the Premier League in January has helped transform the team's fortunes.

On Sunday night Jordi was posing for a celebratory photograph on the pitch at the Santiago Bernabeu with coach Xavi, director of football Mateu Alemany and president Joan Laporta.

Barcelona had just beaten Real Madrid 4-0 and two of those winter window signings, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Ferran Torres, had played a huge part.

'When it finishes well then you're relieved,' he says of the January transfer window, when the club closed the deal to take Aubameyang from Arsenal on a free after they had terminated his contract.

'We were not only depending on ourselves. You depend also on the player and on Arsenal. And it's not like a loan when you can sort things out in June or July. That always makes it more complicated and there is nervousness because you are right at the end of the market, you can't look for alternatives.

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