2023-06-13 07:45:59
BarcelonaAlready redone from the dumper jet lag of the trip to Japan and the emotions accumulated in the farewells of Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba, Xavi Hernández has started the holidays this week. The Barça coach wants to disconnect with the family after a very intense season on the pitch and stressful in terms of media overexposure, with press conferences every three days and a final round of balance interviews. A positive balance, everything must be said, with two official titles (League and Super Cup) in the bag.
Xavi lowers the curtain with the only certainties that Leo Messi will not strengthen the squad this summer and that Iñigo Martínez will start the pre-season on July 10 as a Blaugrana player. The rest of the homework is to be done and will depend on the usual: the fair play financial He has entered the pumpkins of Martín Zubimendi, who does not want to leave Real Sociedad, and he still does not know who will govern a midfield without Busquets. It is also not clear if Ilkay Gündogan will be the alternative that he so insistently calls for so that every Pedri injury is not a drama. In fact, he detects that in order to strengthen the Barcelona core, president Joan Laporta is prioritizing Rúben Neves over other operations that do not bear the stamp of Jorge Mendes, who is in Barcelona to do business with the club. All of this in the classic summer context of players with current contracts who do not want to leave Barça no matter how much they are placed on transferable lists. The transfer market is so capricious.
With the hottest thing in the sink in terms of arrivals and departures, if one thing has already been agreed, although not signed, it is the improvement and extension of Xavi’s contract and his staff until June 2026. A few months ago, in the middle of the storm over the Negreira case, Laporta promised an upward review of the emoluments of the Terran player to make him a tenured technician that would contrast with the instability on the bench they cultivated Josep Maria Bartomeu and his board. From those words of the manager, a less placid negotiation has resulted than what the coach wanted to convey, uncomfortable in the face of any situation involving conflict – especially if it has to do directly with him – but which will have a happy ending because none of the two parties has a better alternative.
Xavi is cheaper than Valverde and Koeman
The issue will be resolved with a significant increase in salaries that will repair the anomaly of having a coach of a team that wants to aspire to all the titles receiving four million euros gross per year and that, on top of that, had to finance the termination from his previous contract in Qatar with money from his own pocket. If there are no setbacks, Xavi will double his fees via a new contract which, despite the substantial improvement, will be below the financial deals that both Ernesto Valverde and Ronald Koeman had before they were sacked.
In the case of the Valaisan, the bill will increase to 12 million gross by adding to it what the members of the team of professionals who disembarked with him perceive. His brother Óscar and Sergio Alegre as second and third coaches; Iván Torres as physical trainer; David Prats, Sergio García and Antonio Lobo as scouters; Carlos Nogueira and David Pozos as recoverers, and Ricard Pruna as chief medical officer. Other day-to-day members of the sports city do not have a sports contract, but are part of the club’s fixed workforce.
The effort that Barça makes to shield Xavi and his team will have an impact on the calculation of the fair play financial Contracts will not have to be registered like those of footballers (indeed there would be scope to work with the agreement vell until 2024), but it will have influence when calculating the value of payrolls that can be registered in the League. The juggling with the fair play they also depend on the expenditure to maintain the subsidiary, the Juvenile A, the women’s, the sports structure and the professional sections. Hence the cuts expected in basketball or handball.
#contract #Xavi #Hernández #staff #Barça