Xavi Hernández will continue at Barça until 2025. It is agreed in the contract that the commitment between the club and the coach is automatically extended until 2026 with a clause. The technician’s renewal includes that of his entire staff. The signing ceremony will most likely be this Friday with Joan Laporta, although everything has been closed for a few days.
The conversations revolved more about years than millions and the agreement was halfway between the president’s will and the coach’s desire. Laporta wanted Xavi’s commitment until 2026 coinciding with the end of his mandate; The coach, on the other hand, felt a certain vertigo at the prospect of those three years because he understood that this duration is an eternity in a club as volcanic as Barça.
Although there is more evidence than perception that the entity is in a phase of stability, nothing is as it seems at Barça. Xavi knows this and preferred a shorter commitment with an easy resolution based on the fact that Renewals are always more pleasant to negotiate. And maybe more expensive.
One title, one more year
The yardstick of Xavi’s work will be The titles that I get Nothing new and nothing different, even though he is a coach of the house who enjoys charisma among the fans, due to his extensive and brilliant past and the rebound that the team has experienced.. He took him ninth in the table, made him champion last year and is now second in the table, two points behind the leader. The League title is added to the history the Spanish Super Cup which, last January, hinted at the dethroning of Madrid. After the football review on the Saudi grass, came the beating in the League with an advantage that reached a 15 point difference.
The extension from 2025 to 2026 will be carried out if Barça wins the League or the Champions League from this moment on. The conquest of one of the two great titles of the season It is understood as the endorsement of success before the circumstances that may occur at a certain time in the future are known. For the moment, there is general satisfaction with the results and the level of play, a concept as subjective as it is relevant in the state of opinion of the culé.
If this season ended without titles, Xavi and his staff will have a second chance after this contractual extension until 2025, but neither the club nor the coach would have the slab of one more year if the atmosphere became tense.
Happy as a coach
Now it is a raft of oil, with the relaxation provided by the status of champion and the image of the team. Two 5-0 wins in a row, With five wins and a draw in six games, they have raised Barcelona’s spirit above optimism, to the point that Laporta sees the economic recovery on track based on sporting successes.
“I will never be a problem for the club,” repeated Xavi, who always puts Barça’s interest before his own. Born in Culé, he has seen and lived through the Barcelona vicissitudes of the last four decades that have affected presidents, coaches and players.
“I do what I want, I am where I want to be: “At Barça as a coach, it’s what makes me happiest,” he said in June. Xavi has not changed his mind, despite having the lowest investment of the 32 teams in the Champions League (3.4 million invested in Oriol Romeu); That is, the team that has spent the least in Europe and the second least in the League after Athletic (zero euros).
Renewal won
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In addition to being where he wants to be, he has been able to shape the squad as he pleases. Only 8 players remain out of almost 30 who greeted him on November 9, 2021, the first day he entered the Sant Joan Despí locker room.
“Xavi has earned the renewal. Not because he is Xavi Hernández or because he is one of the best players in Barça’s history, but because he has earned it for his work as a coach,” Deco anticipated last week.