2023-05-29 19:25:02
Xavi insists. He knows it’s hard, but he insists. He knows that “it depends”, above all on the will of Leo Messi, whose contract with Paris SG ends on June 30. But the Barça coach insists because he considers that the return of the Argentine star to Barça would be key to giving a new impetus to his sports project, which has just won the League. “Leo has become almost a midfielder”, the Barca coach has revealed in an interview with the newspaper Sport. “Almost like a midfielder. There is no doubt that he would help us”, Xavi stressed.
Imagine the coach a Barça with Messi different from the one who left, although equally decisive. “Perhaps the explosiveness has been losing it, but we also saw Messi in the extraordinary World Cup”, recalled Xavi, indicating that “I think he still has years ahead of him, of a high level”.
balance the team
The coach is sure that Messi would give unbalancing talent to the work that Xavi is building at the Camp Nou, although now he is preparing for temporary exile in Montjuïc, for at least a year and a half. Xavi does not believe that the balance of his Barça will be altered by the presence of the former captain.
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❓ How would Messi fit into this new Barça?
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— SPORT Diary (@sport) May 29, 2023
“In the end, you can’t ask Dembélé for the same defensive level as Koundé”, revealed the coach, assuming that “many times the winger gets confused and doesn’t do the same turn in the 80th minute as in the 20th minute”. indicated Xavi, who would not modify any aspect of his original idea.
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“Leo could play in several positions. From false nine, winger, interior, even at the base coming from behind to make the last pass”, the coach commented on the role in which the Argentine star would fit. Messi always enjoying the freedom to move around the entire attack front, reiterating that he would “help” Barça a lot.
It would correspond to him, as coach, to find a solution so that Barça continues to be balanced, as he has shown in this League. “You have to make up for it with footballers. In the end, work and obligations are the same for everyone. And we’ve seen it with Robert”, he said in reference to Lewandowski “world crack, who has adapted very well to our high pressure, to our pressure after loss, to our mid-low block. Well, the same for the footballers who can join. The same”.
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