Barça denies Al-Sadd and affirms that they have not paid for Xavi

Another mess at Barcelona. An hour after Al-Sadd announced that Barça had paid the five million termination clause for Xavi Hernández to leave the Qatari club and become Barcelona’s new coach, the Barça club surprised by leaking to the press that «no he has paid and will not pay »the compensation reflected in the Catalan coach’s contract. In any case, and despite Barça’s surprising reaction, Xavi is no longer Al-Sadd’s coach and will be Barcelona’s new coach to replace interim Sergi Barjuan, who this Saturday will lead his last game against Celta.

Barça will pay half with Xavi himself for the coach’s clause, who will also carry out various promotional events as Qatar’s ambassador. After Al-Sadd’s announcement confirming Xavi’s departure, the former Barça player said goodbye to the Qatari squad through tears, to head to Barcelona as soon as his incorporation to the Barça club became official.

Al-Sadd announced at noon through their social networks that Barcelona has already paid the five million Xavi clause to leave the club and will sit on the Barça bench. However, the club chaired by Joan Laporta insisted that it had not paid for the termination nor does it intend to pay in full the clause stipulated in its contract with Al-Sadd. The Qatari club explained that it has reached “a collaboration agreement” with the Barça club and the executive director of Al-Sadd, Turki Al-Ali, highlighted the excellent relationship they have with Xavi, who wishes him good luck in the future .

The new Barcelona coach will leave Qatar in the next few hours to sign for the culé club, which he will arrive after last week’s dismissal of Ronald Koeman, who has been temporarily replaced by Sergi Barjuan pending the one chosen by Joan Laporta and his board of directors . Xavi, the coach who most excites Barcelona fans, was chosen to take charge of Barcelona and try to reverse the complicated situation of the team, forced to qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League and fight for the League.

Xavi Hernández thus returns home, to the team in which he played for 17 consecutive seasons in the first team and with which he won four European Cups, eight League titles and three King’s Cups, in addition to the European Super Cups and the Spain and the Club World Cups.

The legendary former Barça midfielder led his last game with Al-Sadd on Wednesday while Barcelona negotiated in Qatar his contract with Al-Sadd, who has not yielded to the demands of the culé club to let Xavi go for free. The executive director of Al-Sadd acknowledged that Xavi communicated a few days ago his desire to go and coach Barça “for the critical stage” that the Barça club is going through. “We understand it and we decided not to get in his way,” he said. Al-Ali.

Therefore, without having yet faced the settlements of Quique Setién and Ronald Koeman, Barcelona will surely be forced to pay five million for the long-awaited signing of Xavi, which from now on becomes the great illusion of the Catalans. «Hopefully I can conquer many things with Barça. He has a challenge at the level of a club like Barça and I wish him the best of luck “, commented on Friday the former Barça player and current national coach, Luis Enrique.