Friday, May 24, 2024, 1:48 p.m. | Updated 2:47 p.m.
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It’s official, Xavi Hernández will not continue leading the Barcelona bench next season. Laporta and Deco, meeting throughout the morning, dismiss the Catalan coach after last week’s clashes. In this way, the Xavi era at the head of the culé bench comes to an end with two titles, the League and the Spanish Super Cup for the 2022-23 season.
After the viral scene before the microphones where the president ratified Xavi as coach for next year, everyone took the Catalan’s continuity for granted. On April 25, Laporta got emotional and hugged Xavi at a press conference and now he fires him from the club. «I am left with the reaffirmation or confirmation that, as a coach, we have an extraordinary person with a culé feeling that he transmits. He transmits enthusiasm, confidence, generosity. Barcelona fans should be proud of the coach that Barça has,” Laporta stated just a month ago.
Everything caught fire again with Xavi’s statements in the previous match against Almería where he stated that “the situation is very difficult, especially on an economic level. The economic situation has nothing to do with what it was 25 years ago, when a coach came and said: ‘I want this one, this one and this one.’ The Barcelona fan has to understand it and we are going to adjust to that.
Hansi Flick, the one chosen by Laporta and Deco
Last Wednesday Laporta and Deco traveled to London to meet with the German coach. Although at the time of the meeting Xavi’s dismissal was not yet official, the culé board traveled to the English capital to discuss positions and find out the intentions of Flick and his agent, Pini Zahavi. The Heidelberg coach is Laporta’s favorite and is the one the Blaugrana sphere likes the most.
One of the main obstacles is economic. After the successes achieved by Flick with Bayern, the German’s cachet is very high. In just a year and a half at the head of the Bavarian bench, he managed to lift the Champions League, the Bundesliga and the German Cup. To that triplet he added the German Super Cup, the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup. Therefore, together with Xavi’s termination, Barcelona will have to make a large outlay for him.
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