The team returned to training this Wednesday after having guaranteed second place, which allows the club to participate in the next edition of the Spanish Super Cup, and having enjoyed two days of rest to prepare for the last game of the season: Sunday against Sevilla at the Sánchez-Pizjuán. However, the session, as AS learned, was special because more than one player was aware that it could be his last week at Barcelona, as well as within the staff, who will learn first-hand on Monday or Tuesday of next week. whether or not they continue to lead the first team.
In fact, right now there are only three training sessions and one game left to put an end to a season that is as erratic as it is irregular, with a very disappointing record in terms of titles. The squad will begin their vacation on Monday, May 27 – the friendly in South Korea at the end of the month has been ruled out – although some will be able to enjoy a few days as they have to join their teams for the Euro Cup and the Copa América. As of July 8, the club has summoned the players who have not participated in either of these two competitions, in addition to those on loan, to start the preseason.
A preseason that everything indicates will be without Xavi at the helm. At least, that is the feeling that is breathed inside the locker room, as AS has learned. It is true that it is more about intuition than information, but all the inputs that reach the squad are negative regarding the coach’s future.
Xavi Hernández does not invite optimism either. “He’s sad,” they say from the locker room. There is no shortage of reasons for the coach to keep the fly behind his ear: the treatment received by Joan Laporta, systematically avoiding any possibility of seeing each other face to face, and the continuous external noise that places him outside the club, makes him It has left him and his people very touched.
The truth is that since January, Barcelona has been immersed in a process of unacceptable degradation, with such controversial episodes as the delayed resignation announcement, the turn of the script at Laporta’s house three months later in the ‘pact of the sushi’ and the new change of course after the press conference prior to the match against Almería, where the coach, in a realistic and pragmatic speech, ended up signing his epitaph.
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Inside the locker room this authentic chaos has been experienced with astonishment and concern. Furthermore, more than one player has also been involved in the outside noise, such as Vitor Roque, a controversial signing if ever there was one, Frenkie de Jong, who even accused some of the information about him of being “lies”, or Ronald Araújo, whose name is in all the starting pools.
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2024-05-22 13:56:10
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