He ‘Xavi case’among many others, is the demonstration that no one is in control in the FC Barcelona. Everything that has been happening since the Terrassa coach presented his delayed resignation is absolute nonsense. All.
Starting because, from day one, John Laporta I didn’t want it Xavi took charge of the team and, pressured by circumstances, the myth and his friend Alejandro Echevarria, he gave up. Then, as the months went by, he regretted it, but since Laporta 2.0 is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the first Laporta, he incomprehensibly bowed down to the legend and accepted such a botched resignation.
The club’s inability to find a replacement or have a ‘plan B’ (can we know what he does? Deco?), the confusion in all levels of the institution, the very little or no planning, the lack of professionalism and the impossibility of going to the market with money or possibilities of signing another coach and, of course, the distrust that exists in Rafa Marquezwho serves as an umbrella but not as a starter on the big bench, caused Laporta to stage, incomprehensibly, emotion, crying and a pat on the chest included, a disproportionate and grotesque press conference in which it seemed that Barça was presenting the Kylian Mbappé himselfwhen he simply confirmed a coach who had a current contract.
Unnecessary gesture
Was so much tinsel needed for such simplicity? Or, worse still, much worse: What hurry was Barça, what hurry was Laporta, to ratify a coach who was touched and dedicated? Hadn’t we agreed (they invented that excuse themselves, as they lost their titles) that the grades were given at the end of the course? Not to insist on all the paraphernalia, typical of turbulent times, José Luis Núñez I John Gaspartwith a pilgrimage and demonstration at the portal of the president’s attic.
. GIRONA, 04/05/2024.- The coach of FC Barcelona Xavi Hernández, during the match of the 34th day of the League in Primera División between Girona FC – Barcelona FC, in the municipal stadium of Montilivi. EFE/Siu Wu / Siu Wu / EFE
The president’s umbrella has jumped into the air, it has flown, before the great storm that could arrive if Barça does not finish second, which, given what has been seen (and given the effectiveness, morale and determination of the Girona), it is perfectly possible, very real.
I say that Xavi’s hasty confirmation is a mistake by the board, who said they didn’t want him and he stayed. It is a disaster at the presidential level, since his hunch was to rule out the coach, but his brother-in-law pushed him. He is a nonsense on a sporting level, since they have already lost the four titles. It is a confusion at a strategic level because there was no rush to reinforce the ‘mister’. And it is, above all, ridiculous on a communicative level, because the staging, I repeat, was as if it had returned Leo Messi.
It is very difficult to think that if Xavi does not manage to climb back to second place he can remain in office, even though he insisted, in Girona, after the sixth defeat of the season conceding four goals, that “there will be no debate about my continuity.” Xavi’s time has passed. The technician will not open that melon again, it would be necessary! He already said the first word. Now it’s up to the board, well, the board already said that he didn’t want it. It is up to the president, then.
“No, no, there will be no debate about my continuity”
If Xavi’s Barça does not finish second, apart from losing the 8 million global prize for participating and winning the Spanish Super Cup, it will have completed one of the worst seasons in the history of the ‘more than a club’, just entering the year of its 125th anniversary. Worst impossible. In this scenario, which, I repeat, is not so, so, difficult to imagine, it is possible that Laporta and Echevarría could continue ignoring the board, but the atmosphere will become unbreathable, even if the ‘soci’ continues to be anesthetized.
There are those who argue that Laporta is beginning to blame the squad more than the coach, but that is false. The cries of indignation in the back room of the box Montilivi (yes, recorded by TV cameras) were directed at the entire locker room, at that close-knit family that Xavi always talks about.
Record of myths
There are those who think that Laporta will hold back when it comes to firing Xavi because, after not accepting his resignation, he should now pay him and his large staff the money for next season.
There are those who believe that Laporta will not dare to fire the coach because he cannot go down in history as the president who defenestrated three Barcelona legends: Leo Messi, Ronald Koemanthe Wembley goal man, and Xavi Hernandez.
And there are those who think, but knowing Joan Laporta, that does seem like a great nonsense, that the president and his board, before firing Xavi for the terrible campaign and the loss of second place in LaLiga, should present their resignation. And, that, given the servility with which the current Barça directors behave, more like troupes than anything else, is truly unthinkable. This last possibility is a toast to the sun.
Subscribe to continue reading
2024-05-06 21:58:12
#Laporta #Xavi #Barça #finish
