2024-01-28 09:56:03
1.Xavi Hernández, in his last game as a Barça player, lifted the Champions League in Berlin. In his last game as a coach, he could do the same. Right now, but not even the most optimistic culler, sees the team with options to play the Wembley final next June 1. So, Xavi’s last game on the bench would be at Sevilla, on May 26, with the aim of leaving the team in the top four. In other words, the circle will have closed and, three years later, Barça will be where it was. From “New Era”, as the Club’s propaganda television series says, nothing at all.
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2.Why doesn’t Xavi fold now? For aesthetic reasons and for economic reasons. Laporta, in three years, would have thrown Messi out, when he came from Ibiza to sign the renewal, he would have dismissed Koeman after belittling him and, now, the cost of burdening himself with a third myth he did not want to and could not assume . And even more so when Xavi was renewed in September, until June 2025, on the day the Club released a video of the President repeatedly kissing the coach’s forehead. In the first term, Laporta’s coaches, Rijkaard and Guardiola, always ended their seasons. Now, who boasts of experience, in the middle of the course he cannot load two in less than three years. It doesn’t suit. And, which seems to be a key factor, they cannot dismiss Xavi because there is no money to pay the entire contract and, on top of that, the signing of a new coach. Xavi steps aside and announces, like the culer that he is, that he will end the season and fold. In other words, he gives up a lot of money – from 2024-25, which he would be entitled to – but his CV will not include a dismissal, which would have been ugly and painful, for being at the Club of his heart.
3.Xavi believes that the team and the players will break free and perform better. We do not know. It’s a matter of faith. Only time will tell if he is right in his prediction. Xavi wants to be valued and he is right. He won a League (the first without Messi), which was not at all easy, and he gave debuts to fifteen players from the squad. These are its two great merits. The determined and courageous commitment to Lamine Yamal, Fermín or Cubarsí are a legacy of incalculable value. On the other side of the scale, the sentence of two consecutive years playing in the Europa League – and playing a role in it – would not have been allowed to any other coach, or President. This year, the level of football has stagnated and the record of conceding 5 goals at home sixty years later, which was the final straw, will not be forgotten either.
4.And Joan Laporta? The President who dominates the oratory, who began the mandate making videos wrong and right, has suddenly disappeared publicly. In a fortnight, three titles have been thrown and it is still time for him to give an explanation. That Madrid win you a final deserves a justification from the President. Even more so if you get four of them. If Athletic Club slaps you with four more and knocks you out of the Cup, too. If you score five at home, you say goodbye to the League and the coach says he’s leaving, the Barcelona player expects the President to show his face. In all this period, his voice has only been heard to comment on Madrid-Almeria and the “kidnapped VAR”. Hadn’t we stopped victimhood?
5.On Saturday, in the 45th minute, the fans booed Lewandowski. At halftime he booed the team. At the end of the match, the crowd shouted “Barça yes, Laporta no”. There were still no shouts against Xavi. On the contrary, as the coach himself recalled a few weeks ago, “the fans chant my name in every match”. And it’s true. It had never happened with any coach before. never That’s how he was saved from the electric chair.
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