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FC Barcelona: Xavi and his signing as Barcelona coach, live: last hour of the crisis

Laporta has already designed the plan to replace Koeman. Once the departure of the Dutchman was confirmed after the defeat in Vallecas, Barcelona made official Sergi Barjuan as an interim technician until the arrival of Xavi Hernandez. The current coach of Al Sadd He is pending to leave the Qatari club, a circumstance that could accelerate in the next few hours. His return to Barcelona it seems like a matter of time.

The last hour of the Barça bench, live:

16.50 Coutinho returns to the Brazilian squad

In a different vein, the next international break will not only be special for Xavi, who could return home. Also for Coutinho, called up by Tite for the South American qualifiers and returning to the Brazilian team… maybe when nobody expected it.

16.35 Al Sadd silences his XaviStay campaign

During the day yesterday, the Qatari team account did not stop reposting all the images of its fans with the hashtag XaviStay, “Xavi stay”. A campaign that was sounded, by the officiality of the account, but that has ceased today. Has he made up the idea Al Sadd What is he going to lose Xavi?

15.55 What measures will Sergi take?

Everything indicates that there will be three matches in which Sergi will be the boss of the Barça bench. What measures will you take in those three games? Will he play it with young homegrown players, will he try to provide the team with experience and seniority, will the scheme change a lot with respect to Koeman? We want to know your opinion.

15.30 The first ‘signing’ for Sergi

Barcelona’s new (interim) coach will be able to count on an addition to the squad that Ronald Koeman was unable to enjoy this season. Ousmane Dembélé is closer to his return and, as Sergi has admitted, has options to enter the list of summoned for the game this Saturday against Alavés.

15.00 Laporta’s wink to Xavi

It’s an open secret, but Laporta has taken great care in its language when referring to Xavi. It is seen that the forms with the Al Sadd, the still team of the coach of Terrace, are important. However, he left a sentence that sounds like a sentence. “I would like him to coach Barça in my mandate.”

Laporta: “I would like Xavi to coach Barça during my tenure”

14.40 Guardiola: “I have no doubt that Xavi is ready”

..And Pep blessed Xavi. The technician of the Manchester City he sees the one who was his player more than ready to take the reins of the Barça. “He knows the environment, he knows the game and he has the passion,” he warns.

14.30 Koeman’s departure

Laporta he understands that, seeing what he has seen, he had to do without Ronald Koeman before time. The president, who justified the dismissal of the Dutchman in the poor results, assures that the dismissal It was not done in a disrespectful way with the already ex-coach. “We communicated to him with all due respect. The situation was untenable and he told me that he partly understood it.”

14.10. Sergi’s plan for Alavés

Sergi will be safe tomorrow against Alavés and may repeat against Dynamo Kiev in Champions. At the moment, in the two training sessions he has been in as an interim coach, he claims to be testing new stuff.

13.55 hours. Laporta throws balls out with Xavi

Joan Laporta did not want to point to Xavi as the only candidate for the Barça bench. The Barça president, perhaps in order not to interfere in negotiations, has spoken of different options without wanting to give names, although he has hinted your intentions. Are you hiding something?

13.00 Press conference with Sergi and Laporta

The maximum representative of the Barça presents to the media Sergi Barjuan, interim coach of the Barça team.

Sergi Barjuan:

Alavés potential squad and party:

“We have to recover the idea of ​​vertical football. It is complicated. In a stressful situation it must be mastered as soon as possible”

Laporta:

On Koeman’s departure:

“We are very grateful to Ronald. We will always have him in the collective memory of Barcelona. The results have decided and the situation was untenable and could affect our intention to fight for the titles.”

About Sergi:

“The philosophy is one of a style of play. We know that Sergi knows this squad well and will be able to work with it. We are working to find a new coach, but the rush is not good advisers.”

Xavi’s option:

“I will keep the reserve of the options that we have, because we would not act like professionals and we can harm the work of the football management”

Xavi’s opinion as a technician:

“He is in a very interesting process, I have very good references from people who know him more in this area. I speak with him often. I have a friendship with Xavi and we have spoken these months. My opinion is very good.”

12.45. Sergi’s successful past as a footballer

In 15 minutes, Laporta will present to Sergi Barjuan before the media. Until yesterday, the coach of the Barça subsidiary has spent as a coach in Huelva, Almería, Mallorca and Chinese Hangzhou, although his greatest achievements in football were achieved in a short dress as a player for Barcelona and Atlértico. Here you have a video of one of his most memorable goals. For the nostalgia of the elderly and knowledge of the young.

The day that Sergi Barjuán ‘dressed’ as Messi to save Barcelona in the UEFA Cup

12.25 How did the rookie coaches fare?

Sergi will premiere tomorrow before him Alaves. And so we look back to see how did it go to the coaches in his debut on the Barça bench. Most of them passed their first exam, but there are also some moles than others.

12.15 Silence at Al Sadd

The Qatari club’s social media account does not offer news from its coach. This morning the image of a fan has just uploaded after the three messages they published in the afternoon yesterday, one of them with Xavi’s message at his press conference.

11.55 What does this new Ansu bring to Barça?

MBP analyze the new version of Ansu after the injury in the Barça game. Its impact, shelled in three different concepts, is considerable. Without that bonus, Sergi will have to face his debut against Alavés tomorrow.

11.40 The video of Riqui Puig after the dismissal of Koeman

It hardly counted for the Dutchman and now, after his departure, he does hope to have the minutes he wanted. Riqui It was recorded yesterday by a fan in the surroundings of the Barça sports facilities. “Now you are free,” he commented.

The video of Riqui Puig after the dismissal of Koeman: his laugh says it all …TIK TOK

11.25 Ansu’s braking

No participated in the session this Friday and the idea is that he can be ready for Tuesday’s Champions League match against Dynamo Kiev. Ansu, who was injured against Real Madrid, was already out in Vallecas.

11.05 Sergi’s second training session: Ansu Fati is not there

Sergi Barjuan puts on the tracksuit again to direct his second session as interim coach of the Barça. In it the absence of Ansu Fati, which was already low in Vallecas. After training, he will give his first call and will appear before the media at a press conference.

10.45 Etoo’s confessions in MARCA

Samuel Etoo, Barcelona’s hero, reviews his career and analyzes the current football situation in an exclusive interview by Juan Castro. “Xavi is my brother and a great coach,” says the Cameroonian.

10.30 am Seville-Barcelona, ​​on December 21

As revealed The Partidazo of Cadena Cope and Radio MARCA, the Seville-Barcelona, one of the four games postponed due to the international commitments of the soccer players of the Conmebol, will be played on Tuesday, December 21. By then, it is assumed that Xavi will already be sitting on the bench.

10.10 Joan Gaspart: “We will win the Champions League, the League and the Cup”

The former president of the Barcelona, has shown his most optimistic side in an interview in El Confidencial. GaspartDespite the delicate situation of the club, he believes that the team will achieve the treble thanks to Xavi: “Why isn’t it going to work? Everyone thought they had no experience Guardiola and Luis Enrique and then the results came in. Barça will win the Champions League and the League, because there is still a lot of championship left, and even the Cup. You can be wrong, but without optimism you are very unhappy. I have seen more difficult things in football. “

9.55 The ruin of Barça after Messi

Dismissal of technicians, collapse of results, confusion in the game, lack of goal. Barcelona post Messi is copying the deep crisis that also affected Real Madrid after the departure of Crisrtiano. Ronald Koeman has been the victim who at the time was Julen Lopetegui. Here you have a comparison made by José Luis Calderón.

9.40 Xavi’s best business card

In the last hours a spectacular goal from the Al Sadd from Xavi. The play, perfect for its execution and resolution, full of enthusiasm for the Catalans. Would you be able to apply that game in the Barça?

The impossible move of Xavi’s Al Sadd: this is how he brought the tiki-taka to Qatar

9.25. The very high price of changing coach

Nothing less than 16 million euros. Those are the accounts they manage at Barça for the change of coach. Between the settlement of Koeman and the new contract of Xavi, al Barça the coach’s relief could come out for a peak. Here, Luis Fernando Rojo, gives you all the numbers.

9.15. Cazorla talks about Xavi as coach

“He is a Taliban of possession, but not of the system.” Santi Cazorla, at your service in the Al Sadd, explains how Xavi’s day to day as a coach is. The Asturian has gone through the microphones of A Diario de Radio MARCA and has valued the figure of his coach and the option of taking the reins of Barça. “He is qualified”, sentence.

9.05 Laporta wrapped Sergi in front of the players

In which the soap opera closes Xavi Hernandez, Laporta wanted to give confidence to the interim coach in his presentation to the players. Thus, the manager accompanied the coach on his first day as coach of the first team. Laporta He also spoke a few words to the squad at such a difficult time.

First day of Sergi Barjuan: presentation, talk and session

8.55. Xavi, on the covers

The VAR mess in Levante-Atlético competes with Xavi in the covers of the media nationwide. The Catalan newspapers already welcome Terrassa, which they see as the solution to Barça’s ills.

8.45. Will Laporta speak today?

Sergi Barjuan, which will debut tomorrow before Alaves, will offer today, starting at 1:00 p.m., the press conference prior to tomorrow’s game. It remains to be seen if Joan Laporta will accompany the interim technician before the media. The president could take advantage of the departure to assess the crisis in which Barça is installed after their defeat in Vallecas.

8.30 November 3 as the key date

“I am very focused on Al Sadd.” Xavi did not want to give more clues before questions from the media at the press conference yesterday Thursday. He did so after holding a meeting with the leaders of his club, whose idea is that the coach of Terrace stay on your club bench for at least one more week. And is that On November 3, the date on which Al Sadd faces Al Duhail, their great rival, is marked in red. Will it hold until then?

8.25 Barça does not want to pay a transfer for Xavi

Xavi has a contract with him Al Sadd until 2023, but the idea of ​​Barcelona is not to pay any compensation for the coach. Because, Laporta has decided to be Xavi the one that treats his separation with his current club. In favor of a positive outcome for Barça interests plays the excellent relationship that that of Terrace maintains with the Qatari leaders.

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