2023-12-15 19:56:00
Xavi, if someone told me that I was the Mariano José de Larra of the 21st century, I would think they were kidding me. When that journalist you faced today compared you to Alex Ferguson, Xavi, he was kidding you. Or, what would be even worse for him, he was taking it on himself. I think they were also making fun of you (I mean) when they compared you to Guardiola. That day, the day they compared you to Guardiola, they actually did you a disservice. Laporta didn’t love you, Guardiola did. And you have the bad things about Guardiola, namely his arrogance, his deification, that way of speaking disparagingly about others… You also have the good things, which is his idea of football. And it’s not that I particularly like your ideas, not even football ideas, but having an idea about something is always good in life. You have their ideas, but you don’t have their players. Fundamentally you don’t have Messi, who was the one who made the difference, but then you don’t have Iniesta, you don’t have Puyol, you don’t have Alves… And you don’t have yourself.
You don’t have yourself, so it is almost impossible for you to play what Guardiola’s Barça played. And that is part of the problem because, being orthodox as you are, you try to make the rest of us believe that it is possible for your Barça to play the same thing that Guardiola’s Barça played but with other totally different footballers, which is as if John were ‘t Schip said that his Amsterdam Ajax can play the same thing that Cruyff, Neeskens, Rep or Krol played but with Taylor, Silvano Vos, Branco van den Boomen or Chuba Akpom. If Cruyff himself returned from his grave and was seated on the bench at the current Ajax, he would end up saying something similar to what Van der Vaart said the other day: “It’s a shitty team with shitty players.” You don’t have a shitty team at all, but you insist on selling the bike that the idea is enough, and no, it’s not enough to have an idea, you have to have the players that you don’t have. And since you continue to sell the milonga of excellence, of style, of perfection and of DNA and you continue to say nonsense like “it’s not enough for us to just win but we have to play well”, well, people have caught your drift. registration, Xavi. If you had been honest and humble, if you had recognized what Koeman, for example, recognized in his day (although he with a squad even worse than yours) today you would not be in the center of the target, but like mediocrity you respond with excuses like the grass, the time, the sun, the rival, the referees and, now, journalism, the staff is fed up.
And speaking of journalism. The other day Lobo Carrasco said in El Chiringuito that Xavi had to be removed from the spotlight, and I explained to my friend Carrasco, who was a great footballer but is not a journalist even though he collaborates with different media outlets, that journalism is not For that. Here, in Madrid, at least not. I, who am a very Real Madrid fan, have criticized Zidane, Cristiano, Ramos, Ancelotti… Lobo also called that ungrateful another day, but I am grateful to my parents and not to Zidane. He asked Zidane to lead Madrid well and Ramos and Cristiano to play well and not think they were above the shield. Journalism, Xavi, at least free journalism, is not there to put or remove you from the focus, nor is it there to support you. Free journalism is there to be critical, to demand and to be fair.
I respect, Xavi, the idea you have of football. I don’t share it but I respect it. But you have a very distant idea of what journalism is and that is probably because you have only experienced sports journalism in Barcelona up close. The day after the biggest scandal in the history of Spanish sport broke out, that is, the payment of 7.6 million by Barça to Negreira over 17 years, the following could be read on the cover of Mundo Deportivo: “Champions League Duel “, regarding the match against United. And in Sport, “Let it be a magical night.” Do you want more protection than that, Xavi? You don’t want protection, you want vassalage. You want vassals in the press room, and that is because you are used to that, it is what you have been living for 25 years. And not only that, Xavi. You want vassals and, furthermore, you want them of the idiot kind. You don’t even need an intelligent servant; you want him to be an idiot. You want one of those servants who, when you say that you have agreed with Laporta and Deco on the call for the game against Antwerp, he responds “oh, that’s great, Xavi is so smart.” And when Deco says that there has been no consensus and that the calls are your thing and you say again that you agreed with Laporta and Deco, he responds “what a genius Xavi is.” That’s not supporting, Xavi, that’s massaging your feet with rose water.
Be worthy. Respect yourself. And if they force you to do things you don’t want to do, leave before they kick you out. Because they are going to fire you, Xavi. Do you have an idea? Take it out. Your problem is that you continue to think like a footballer would and you are no longer one. You are not a player, you are a coach. Before putting Barcelona sports journalism in its place, put yourself in yours. They can no longer do more than what they have been doing for Barça since the 70s. At this time they continue to disguise, if not directly hide, the payment of 7 million to the referee vice president. What else should they do? Say you beat Antwerp? Or that you play football well? That day may come, I don’t rule it out. But against Antwerp you lost and played extremely poorly. As, by the way, your Barça has been doing since you arrived. The rest are nonsense.
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