Fed up of waiting! Allan Barcellos leaves São Paulo for rival Palmeiras? | OneFootball

Coach Allan Barcellos grew tired of São Paulo’s false promises and will leave the club, in talks that began this Tuesday (24), where he served as head coach of the under-20 team. Despite the coach’s initiative, the parties are now negotiating a mutual agreement for his departure.

The exit comes as a surprise, since at the start of this year, Barcellos had signed a contract extension with Tricolor until the end of 2027. However, as reported by AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR, some promises not fulfilled by the board, such as his transition to the club’s senior team, upset the coach, who decided to leave São Paulo.

And to make matters worse, his destination could be rival Palmeiras. According to the website Nosso Palestra, Allan, who has been on the rival’s radar for some time, already has advanced talks to take over the green-and-white club’s under-20 team. However, nothing is official so far.

Besides Palmeiras, some other Brazilian clubs have approached Barcellos in recent months both to work in youth development and also with senior teams.

Allan Barcellos had already been showing some dissatisfaction after promises of new developments within the club, which did not happen over the last three months, appearing only very rarely at the Barra Funda training center alongside the senior squad.

Without feeling that the transition process from the youth ranks to the senior team was being carried out at São Paulo, he preferred a change of scenery and is expected to accept the challenge of managing Palmeiras.

According to sources heard by AMT, Roger Machado’s arrival at Tricolor had no influence on Barcellos’s decision, as he truly decided to leave because of promises São Paulo failed to keep over the last two years, more specifically in the last three months.

With Tricolor’s youth system, the still only 33-year-old coach won back-to-back Under-20 Copa do Brasil titles (2024 and 2025) and the Copinha (2025), in addition to finishing as runner-up in the same competition at the start of 2026.

The coach’s recent success at São Paulo even led Brazil’s under-20 national team to sound out Allan Barcellos for the position, after Ramon Menezes was dismissed at the end of last season.

Allan arrived at Cotia in 2022 from Grêmio and, before taking over the juniors, worked with the Under-13, Under-14, Under-15, Under-16 and Under-17 teams.

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