2024-02-28 14:06:18
What if Xavi ultimately stayed a few more months at FC Barcelona? It is still too early to affirm this hypothesis but the idea is starting to gain ground in recent hours in Catalonia. The technician, however, announced his departure at the end of the season on January 27, after a humiliating 5-3 defeat at home against Villarreal. “I would like to announce that on June 30, I will no longer continue as coach of Barça. I think the situation needs to change course and, as a culer, I cannot allow the current situation.”
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By announcing the end of the adventure, the Blaugrana coach gave up his last year of contract. He spoke of a certain weariness and too much mental fatigue to continue his mission, in addition to experiencing too great difficulty in finding solutions to redress the sporting situation of his club, not at best at the end of January. But since then the situation has changed, as if this public declaration had helped unlock something. Barça had a string of 4 wins and 1 draw in La Liga, plus a 1-1 at Naples during a dominated Champions League round of 16 first leg.
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Almost the entire club wants to see Xavi continue with Barça
Should we see a place of cause and effect? Yesterday, The beach bar revealed the possibility of seeing Xavi reverse his initial decision. “In football, you never know”, a member of the 44-year-old coach’s entourage told the media. He also refers to the fact that the former midfielder wanted to leave Barça in 2014, before changing his mind to leave in 2015 after a magnificent hat-trick. But why is such a turnaround already possible just one month after making a departure official? According to Sportthere are several reasons for this, including the recovery in results already mentioned.
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Xavi has always been supported by Joan Laporta. The president even informed his coach, informally, that he would like to see him complete his contract. He always sees him as the man for the job. Rafa Yuste, vice-president of the club, has the same opinion, which is not the case for the entire board of directors of course. The doors are nevertheless wide open. Managers are generally satisfied with his work. The recovery in La Liga, 3rd just two points behind Girona, has something to do with it.
Xavi has already been contacted by other clubs
They also know that the coach has always retained the support of his locker room. The public statements of Robert Lewandowski on this subject or even of Frenkie de Jong and Sergi Roberto are not innocent. They appreciate his frankness and are grateful to him. There is no need to recall Xavi’s past with Barça, he who was trained here before becoming a very important player, symbol of the generation raised by Guardiola, and captain. He knows the house perfectly and the difficulties it has been going through for several seasons. The financial aspect is the last argument presented by Sport.
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Changing coaches will have a cost for the Blaugrana entity, which does not need that at the moment. Once announced as successor on the bench, Roberto de Zerbi has a release clause of €10 million in his contract linking him to Brighton. It’s already too much. We would then have to turn to a free coach like Hansi Flick or Thomas Tuchel at the end of the season. Finally, to definitively convince Xavi, it will undoubtedly be necessary to throw Deco out with the risks that this entails. Not sure that all this is enough, agrees the Catalan media, affirming in another article that the 2010 world champion will not reverse his decision. He would have even already been contacted by other clubs…
Pub. 02/28/2024 3:06 p.m. Updated 02/28/2024 4:25 p.m.
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