BARCELONA have chosen to abandon their plans of hiring a new scout after some of his old tweets have resurfaced.
Elvis Coca was set to become a new member of the La Liga side's backroom staff before the club were made aware of tweets praising Real Madrid and criticising the Catalan side.
Coca had previously been working as a scout for Mirandes in the Spanish second tier.
The deal had already been agreed for the scout to move to Barcelona before the tweets were then discovered.
The tweets, which are now deleted, contained Coca celebrating wins for Barcelona's bitter rivals Real Madrid, as well as complaints about the Catalan club receiving help from referees.
Speaking on local radio after the offer had been taken off the table, Coca said: "I've missed out on the opportunity of a lifetime."
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Barcelona have a history of pulling out on deals because old posts on social media.
Back in 2015, the club had announced the signing of 24-year-old Sergi Guardiola as a free agent.
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The striker was then released from his contract just hours later after the uncovering of offensive tweets about the the club, as well as Catalonia, from 2013.
Guardiola claimed that the tweets were posted by a friend as a joke, and that he was unaware of them existing.
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