Now Xavi smells like a sporting corpse and everyone leaves his side when he passes by, even those who defended him until a while ago, but, in reality, the Barça coach has only made two mistakes, one for lying and the other for saying the truth: claiming that he was leaving and then staying and suggesting that his team will not be able to compete with Real Madrid next season. If you say you’re leaving, you’re leaving. There Xavi lied. But Laporta bought the lie, which was even consensual, and told him that he admitted it solely and exclusively because he was a legend. Although knowing how Barça treats its legends, I would have started to tremble! If you say you’re leaving, you’re leaving. If you truly believe that this is going to cause a reaction from your players, you leave. And, when the time comes to leave, keeping your word… you leave. Because if you announce that you are leaving and then stay, you lose the respect of the locker room, and if you lose the respect of the footballers, then you are dead and buried. Of course at that moment, as soon as he announced his goodbye, the players showed their unanimous support for the coach, but that is only because the footballer is selfish and will do whatever he has to do to continue playing football. That was the mistake for lying. The other mistake, which is what apparently triggered the latest crisis, was telling the truth. Of course, Barça is going to have a difficult time competing with Madrid, but I also understand that you can’t say that. You can think it, as I’m sure Hansi Flick also thinks it, but you can’t say it. If you say that Barça is not going to be able to compete with Real Madrid, then you are kicking yourself in the ass, which is what it seems Laporta is finally going to do.
The rest are Laporta’s mistakes. Laporta’s first mistake with Xavi was entrusting him with the direction of the first team when he knew perfectly well that he was not prepared for it. He knew it and, still, he signed him. Because? Because he needed a hiding place, a refuge, a card with which to distract the fan’s attention, a mannequin to hold on to, a lever. Xavi is all that for Laporta: a hiding place, a sticker, an umbrella, a mannequin… He is all that, but he is not a coach because a professional coach does not allow, for example, the president to call him up. That day Xavi also had to leave, but he stayed. Laporta’s second mistake with Xavi was allowing him to say that he was leaving and then allowing him to stay. He looked into his eyes and knew he was the man. Well, let him go to the optician because he is about to throw him out onto the street. Unless everything was an orchestrated charade between the two, if a coach tells you that he is going to leave when the season ends, you, as president, have to tell him no way, that you leave him at that moment and he will look for another one. .
I’m not going to say that last season’s League was a problem, because a League never is, but it fueled the false idea that, indeed, Xavi was a coach for Barça. Xavi’s numbers are horrible, very bad, but they always say what he won, which was very little compared to what he lost. When you have a player as extraordinary as Messi and you see that he is celebrating his birthday and that he will soon have to say goodbye, you have to prepare for the replacement. And Barça did not prepare it. Nobody cared about that either. And, to make up for his apathy, it was sold that Fati was the new Messi and now it is repeated that Yamal is. They know perfectly well that this is not the case, as they knew that Xavi was not a coach for Barça, but, in the meantime, they survive one more day. That’s the goal, to get to Friday, and then Saturday, and then Sunday. And on Monday we will see.
Of course, Xavi is not a top-level coach for Barça, but Laporta is not a top-level president for Barça either, and it remains there. Now Flick? Well now Flick. I remember, at the end of the 90s, Felipe González saying in Congress that “neither Flick, nor Flock”, regarding a corruption scandal orchestrated by a German businessman who shared a last name with whom, if nothing strange happens, He will be the new culé coach. Is Flick playing now? Well, Flick. Next is Flock? Well Flock. But the thing is, just like Laporta does, it’s not that he can’t lead Barça, it’s that you can’t even lead a grocery store, as Marçal Lorente says. If, when he arrives, Flick decides to tell the truth, he will have to be fired like Xavi. He won’t tell it. He will pretend like Xavi did until the other day. He will pretend like Laporta does. They are good at pretending, Catalonia has always produced good actors. Camera. Lights. Action. And let the show continue.
2024-05-23 17:41:10
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