The culés would do well not to celebrate the Real Madrid cup eliminationgood thing for your accounts and, especially, for the curious mathematics of Xavi Hernandezand keep thinking about how to get out of the mess they’ve gotten themselves into. after resoundingly losing the Super Cup.
What was seen last night in Salamanca is part of a restart after the alleged locker room raid, with and without Joan Laporta. Last night gives the impression that everything seems aimed at fattening the beast until the next setback.
Needless to say, defeat”.
The ‘mister’ footballer
Of course, Xavi, one of whose main problems seems to be that he feels even more of a footballer than a coach, recognized that since he made difficult things easy (well, him and the monsters that surrounded him, right?), he despairs because he cannot understand Why don’t his boys do everything he tells them and prepares, not even in the Unionistas field.
Hearing him say that last night, I thought of that sensational anecdote they tell about Johan Cruyyfftotally true, who relates that one day, after the pre-match talk and when his boys began to leave the room where he had given them the lineup and tactics, he turned towards Charly Rexach and he said: “We have already won on the scoreboard 5-0, we will see what they do now on the field”.
Last Wednesday, before traveling to Salamanca, Xavi thought he was the protagonist of a perfect press conference, which he defined as “his reality.” I don’t know, to be honest, but I’m afraid that his speech, extremely unproductive, disappointed a lot of Cruyff fans. And culés, of course. He started it by reminding those present, that is, the journalists, that he was complying with what Laporta had asked of him. What’s more, he was still Barça’s coach because he had put the team in the Champions League the first year and won the League in the second. “And, now, we are going for more titles.”
And he said it as if they had not signed anyone, when the club has spent 300 million. And he said it, that that was the worst, without remembering what he had promised at the beginning of this campaign: “We will play better, we will look like the best Barça.” He forgot about that. He forgot so much, so much (“I don’t want to win at the Bernabéu by playing badly”), that until, finally!, hallelujah, hallelujah! he summoned the great Luis Aragones and he joined the sect (the good one, the authentic one, the other one no longer exists) of “win, win, win and win again; win, win and win again, shall I continue? That’s football!”
That has been (and he did not acknowledge it in his most personal and real speech of all) the evolution of Xavi’s (and Laporta’s) Barça: going from an attempt to play well (they have never achieved it, well, yes, in the final of the last Super Cup which, since it has now been lost, is already a minor competition) to simply winning, which for many is everything but for the Xavi who arrived from Qatar, it was not.
The burial of TV-3
Xavi has been shedding talent to the same extent that Laporta lost 14 senior executives. The president continues to run the club as a family business, with brothers, sisters, cousins, ex-brother-in-law, friends and enchufados, without a CEO or General Director, and the ‘mister’ of Terrassa has decided to abandon the commandments of Johan Cruyff and embrace the doctrine of ‘Shoes’. Hence TV-3 buried the other night, with a grotesque but very real start, the DNA of Barça, which exasperates more than one person.
When Laporta and his friends started their new journey without guarantees or a project, there were some naive people who thought that, given Barça’s economic circumstances, the most sensible alternative would have been to ask for calm, patience, affection and logic from the ‘partner’, promising him slow growth. , based on the youth team and, above all, paying off debts without great sporting dreams.
Not even in dreams did such good sense occur to Laporta and his team. What’s more, they launched the house for the advantage, several houses for several windows, they continued to put the entity in debt, they began to sell it in pieces and, on the way to the joint stock company, which is already promoted by more than one friend of the president, they sold him the dream project to Xavi, who bought it without blinking, but, yes, promising what he has not kept.
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“Would you be willing to lead a project that, due to the economy, could not be signed and with a weaker squad, its objectives were not to win titles,” asked Ivan San Antonio, from the newspaper ‘Sport’, collecting the sensible alternative to waste. “No. Barça couldn’t afford that. We have to find a way to compete. Neither the fans, nor us, nor you would allow a Barça that was not competitive. It would be very difficult to digest. Well, actually, it already is.”
What cannot be allowed is for Barça to continue playing so badly. Even if I win.