This is getting ugly. Even though those most responsible for the Barça have they declared their eternal love? (“he is the perfect coach for Barça”) by Xavi Hernandezthe truth is that there are beginning to be signs that those sitting in the box are suspecting certain doubts.
Of course he spoke of doubts that have their origin in that sentence, which one day, hopefully not, will revive Joan Laporta about “you see, I was right: Xavi was green, we should have forced him to go through the reserve team, like he did pep (Guardiola)”.
Many said, at the start of the national team break that, apparently in Vallecas, was of little use, that the coach’s time had come. And, now, they point out that, perhaps, the president’s time has come.
It doesn’t play yet
Don’t worry (yet), the president doesn’t plan to move and, despite behaving like a true emperor, he will never move his thumb down until I tell him to. decoration, which is why he has put it in (well, for that and to please his brother-in-law), or he sees that the stands are in an uproar (I don’t know if the Montjuïc ones are too reliable) or it is Xavi himself, who throws in the towel. Those photos are about to be printed.
When I talk about details it is that yesterday, without going any further, there was one that, if it is thought out, is very well thought out. There was already a similar precedent, when, after officially presenting finally! to Deco, the president went to celebrate accompanied by Rafa Márquez, the reserve team’s coach, and not Xavi. Yesterday, after the Vallecas disaster (tying ‘in extremis’ is a disaster), Laporta appeared, for the first time, in the box of a match for the Mexican reserve team, which was playing against Unió Esportiva Cornellà, in Palamós. Meow. And that’s how the environment judged him.
One has his opinion about the people who govern the destinies of Barça, about how they direct it and their way of governing with family, friends and recommendations, but it is possible that, despite being who they are, they begin to detect worrying signs in the behavior and , above all, in Xavi’s statements and sentences after the poor draw in Vallecas against the most modest team in the championship.
For example, that the players do not take the field with the correct mentality, that is, with the determination to try to win from minute one, to bite to decide as soon as possible. That, obviously, is a matter for the footballers, but also for the coach who does not know how to instill in them that idea (vital, fair, necessary and essential to win). And, above all, if you see it, detect it, suffer it, suffer it… and do nothing, danger in La Condomina.
But I don’t know if the other phrase that Xavi said in Vallecas is worse: “After winning the League and Super Cup last season, you unconsciously go down a bit. “That’s how it is.” Does he mean it? Are they satiated? Full belly? I can’t imagine Pep Guardiola (and I know that comparison hurts them), after achieving the treble in tough England, allowing, tolerating, his players to lower their guard, their intensity and lose their hunger the day after such loud celebrations.
Pep’s word
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I went on Google, like we all do, looking for what Guardiola would say about it. And here it is, in case it helps: “I have been learning and trying to improve myself since the first day I stepped on a soccer field.” Well ok. “Winning is the greatest motivation you can have.” What part of that don’t the millionaire Barça footballers understand? And, perhaps, who knows, the last reflection I have found (there are many and very good ones) would be the hardest for the moment that the Barça bench, coaches and footballers are experiencing: “If you can no longer motivate your players as a coach, you know “The time has come to leave.”
And if Laporta has something, I don’t know if Deco, it is that he is very, very, very guardiolista. Xavi also knows that.