Renewed on Wednesday despite having the contract valid until 2025, Xavi Hernández resumes his work with “desire, energy and enthusiasm”. The strength and spirit that he lacked in January, when he announced his departure at the end of the current campaign, has been recovered by the Barça coach to address minimum and tangential objectives What remains for Barça: shield qualification for the Champions League (the minimum objective) and finish second and get a place for the 2025 Super Cup (the tangential one).
Xavi resumes the task, feeling like the coach of the following campaign and involved in remodeling the squad to his liking. It’s a saying. “We will be conditioned by the economic situation of the club and the ‘fair play’“commented the technician.
Lamine Yamal and Lewandowski joke as they enter the training ground. / Valentí Enrich
Diagnosis made
The same panorama from last summer. Barça will be able to strengthen itself better if it agrees to the 1.1 rule (whatever it earns it will be able to invest), but it is something that not even Joan Laporta, the president, has been able to guarantee. “He is an optimist by nature, like me,” said Xavi, who can only trust in the future and not in certainties. “But the diagnosis is made,” admitted the coach, who already has a guess about which players he wants to keep and who he would do without.
He clarified, for example, that He has asked Sergi Roberto and the club to extend the contract of the captain, who considers Frenkie de Jong as a very important footballer in the squad and, on the other hand, considers that Vitor Roque needs to play with more continuity due to his youth. Nobody is risking their position: everyone has already played it with the performance offered so far, unless there are extraordinary performances for better or worse between now and May 26, the date of the last day. Xavi will demand “an extra” from them for not having met the original objectives.
A Valencia and a Barça of merit
The final stretch of this second stage that begins begins with the match against Valencia this Monday and the visit to Girona on Saturday, where this second place will be at stake, almost essential for Xavi’s project to be presented with the minimum doses of confidence. The Barça coach granted “a lot, a lot of credit” to Rubén Baraja, who has stabilized Valencia with many young people after suffering an economic crisis even worse than that of Barça.
He also gave much credit to Women’s Barça for its classification the fourth consecutive Champions League final. “They are the best women’s team in the world. I am very proud of the work they have done,” commented Xavi, after highlighting the merit of having overcome the adverse score of the first leg against Chelsea on Montjuïc at Stamford Bridge.
2024-04-28 11:39:01
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