The sudden and excessive praise for the figure of the coach Xavi Hernandez It is without a doubt the best thermometer of the situation that Barça is currently going through. The first thing that should be said is that if now, suddenly, the possibility of Xavi being convinced to turn back and continue next season at the head of the culé bench begins to be discussed in Barcelona, it is, of course, not because of Xavi but because Laporta, who as soon as the coach announced that he would leave at the end of the season he began to sound out the market, has not found a single high-class coach who is free or who wants to come and take over Barça. So, in the same way that he previously activated other levers, now Laporta also intends to activate the coach’s lever. In reality, he is preparing the sleepy and uncritical culé fans through the typical probe balloons so that, and as long as they manage to convince him, which I see as impossible, he will eat Xavi with potatoes. But, be careful, they won’t eat it because Laporta wants to but because Klopp, Tuchel, De Zerbi, Guardiola or Flick, which are some of the surreal names that have been considered, they don’t feel like it. The simple fact that this is being talked about in Barcelona already seems shabby to me because if there is one thing that Xavi Hernández has shown, and in spades, it is that he is not a high-quality football coach.
He said that this new smokescreen is the best possible thermometer of the current situation of this historic Catalan football club. It is evident that if the name of Agree, with Xavi necessity would be made a virtue. But let’s go down, please, to the terrain of the concrete, to the facts, to reality. Let’s avoid Narnia even if it’s for a moment. Does Xavi Hernández deserve to be classified as the new Moisés culé? Is he, as he once again insists in Barcelona, Guardiola’s heir? What has Xavi done this season for the Barça environment to say about him that he must be convinced in any way possible to continue? Well then: Xavi’s Barça fell resoundingly in the Super Cup final in JanuarySpain against Real Madrid 4-1; Xavi’s Barça was eliminated by Athletic Club de Bilbao in the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey; Having played 29 league games, Xavi’s Barça is 8 points behind the leader, which is precisely Real Madrid; and, yes, they have just eliminated Naples, which is seventh in the Italian League, 31 points behind Inter, in the round of 16 of the Champions League. Xavi’s greatest achievements to date have been to get Fútbol Club Barcelona into the top eight in Europe for the first time in many years and, the other day, to beat Atleti 0-3 at the Metropolitano.
And that is the big difference that exists between Barça and Real Madrid. Well, that is probably the big difference that exists between Real Madrid and the rest of the clubs in the world. If, at this point, Real Madrid had been beaten by Barça in the final of the Spanish Super Cup, had been eliminated by Athletic Club Bilbao in the quarterfinals of the Cup, would have been 8 points behind Barça in the League and had just eliminated the seventh-placed team in the Italian League in the second round of the Champions League, no one in their right mind would even think of handling the name of Carlo Ancelotti, who would undoubtedly be on the tightrope, as coach for next season. . So, instead of speaking well of the club, what this excessive praise for an undoubtedly mediocre football coach actually does is nothing more than continuing to reduce to a minimum a club that once, a long time ago, was so big that he seriously believed (falsely, of course) that he could look Real Madrid directly in the eyes. If, at least, with this regrettable record of results, Xavi had maintained the essence, something that in those parts they know so grandiloquently as “DNA”, Laporta would have some justification. But this coach has not even achieved that, he has stuck to the model that he never tires of preaching. Barça played to the best of its ability with what it had. And now, in this situation of economic and values bankruptcy (it should not be forgotten that this club was paying the arbitration vice president for 17 years, which is something that is rarely said) Xavi is not the best, Xavi is what remains. What remains is Xavi. It’s what remains.
2024-03-20 11:14:11
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