We can say it without hesitation. Xavi Hernandezfearing for his position and that of his group of family and friends (that is how he defined his ‘staff’, not me), has used the last bullet: criticizing his footballers without mercy and with passion, denouncing the attitude of his footballers , the apathy of his boys, hyperprotected until last night.
Even worse. She has acknowledged that she will not happen again. That is to say that, upon returning from the holidays, we will see an eleven with Sergi Roberto and 10 children. She has said more, yes. He has acknowledged that everything that has happened to date has been his fault, because she should have prevented them from walking around the field by anticipating the fight she got into them last night at half-time.
It is evident that after talking about the weather, the climate, the height of the grass, the sun, the bad luck, the inefficiency in scoring, the bad press, the lack of mentality, the errors in defense, the time has come. turn to tell the truth: we don’t have teams, sorry, squad, players, to play like the Barça of 2010. Or we fight like Almería, Getafe, Mallorca, Cádiz… or we don’t beat anyone. Come on, those of 2010 didn’t fight like beasts!
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Sorry? It was you, Messrs. Laporta and Hernández, who, contrary to what was recommended, in the face of a delicate moment of crisis, sold us, against all odds (“to create illusion,” they said), that this Barça, theirs, would be like the one in 2010. What’s more, Laporta He won the election because he had already done so. And you, Mr. Coach, bought that grandiloquent, triumphalist speech, when the most sensible thing would have been to ask for calm, patience, support for the youth team, win as you could and grow little by little.
Now, just when those in charge say that president, the Portuguese Joao Felixreplaced at half-time (from the fight) and become the example, sorry, the bad example of everything the coach denounced last night.
It is bad, horrible, to put the stars at the feet of horses. You never know how the group will react, maybe they make your bed and allow the anesthetized stands (well, well, last night many whistles were heard and at different minutes and even though Xavi says they are chanting his name), look towards the bench, the weakest point of this entire framework.
“I’m opening myself wide.” Ugh, that expression is the result of desperation, helplessness and, possibly, regret. The man with the silk glove decided to take the whip one day, one break, one night. Does that mean that, after the holidays, we are going to see a fighting Barça, closer to Bordalás, what a great coach! What about Cruyff, the teacher? It just can’t be. Is incredible.
For one night (the trip to the US or the vacation will make him change his speech again), Xavi has turned into rubble the project or the wishes of Laporta, of the president who maintains him even though he thought he was green and he cannot play how I played Cruyff. EITHER Pep Guardiola. Now we know why: Laporta has not given him quality players.
“I’m opening myself up. It’s my fault. This won’t happen again”
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Laporta proclaimed to the thousand winds that the sociological madridismountil the judges of the ‘Negreira case’they were chasing Barça “because we are returning, that is why they fear us, because we are going to repeat what we already did”. Were you talking about Barça in 2010? Yes, he was talking about that prodigious Barça. Well, nothing of that. “We are not the Barça of 2010, we do not have the quality of that Barça, nor their individual ability,” shouted pass”) and that “either we fight more than the rival, or we will not win any title”.
The problem is that that sermon, being true, arrives late, that should have been the focus of his speech at his inauguration. It is clear that this is not the thinking of Laporta, nor of Deco, nor of the club and for this reason, now, perhaps, there is a before and after to the night of Almería, a match that was won but that gave the feeling, again, that he had been lost.
I won’t even tell you what can happen (it won’t happen, right? No, it won’t happen) if, come the new year, Xavi falls in love with Vitor Roque and stop counting on Joao Felixthe signing of the president and the jewel (and business) of his friend Jorge Mendes. That is why, as happened with the weather, the grass, the sun, bad luck, inefficiency in scoring, bad press, lack of mentality or errors in defense, this outburst by Xavi will be blurred among the champagne bubbles. of Christmas and “qui dia passa, any empeny”.
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I don’t think Xavi feels strong enough to challenge the president. This Barça has been built for and by Laporta, and everything, everything, from his family, friends and enchufados to the Communication department have been created in honor and glory of Laporta, not to protect the coach, who, even at Barça, It is the weakest link in the chain.
Unless your name is Pep Guardiola i Salawhich is not the case, of course.