Xavi Hernandez burned all bridges and will soon be history at Barcelona. The former player and soon-to-be-former coach announced that he won’t coach the team after the current season ends.The announcement came after the humbling home defeat to Villarreal, but the young coach claims he made the decision a month ago.”From 30 June, I will not continue as Barca coach … as a Barca fan, I think the club needs a change of dynamic. Thinking as a club man, I think the best thing is for me to go … I will give my all in the four months that are left, I think we can have a good season and I hope the dynamic changes.”Here’s what Xavi said as he announced that was leaving Barça at the end of the season: pic.twitter.com/Pj4LWLYtTo— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) January 27, 2024 Although the Catalans won the La Liga title last season, everything seems to be going against Xavi and the team this year. Form, injuries, officials’ decisions, the overall climate of football in the county – you name it. But the heavies burden for Xavi is having to deal with the medias that produce immense pressure on the team and especially on whoever is in charge of the team.”The feeling of being Barca coach is cruel, unpleasant, it feels like people lack respect for you a lot of the time. It’s terrible on a mental health level, your morale … to the point where you think there is no sense in continuing.”##NAJAVA_MECA_7828768##After elimination in the Copa del Rey by Athletic Bilbao this week and a thrashing by Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup final earlier in January, Xavi said he made the decision for the good of the club.”I’ve thought about the club … and above all the players. I have the feeling that I am doing the right thing, that I am acting with common sense. I think the club needs a change of dynamics, the dynamic is very negative.”This campaign, Barca are fragile at the back and Saturday saw Barcelona let in five goals in La Liga at home for the first time since 1963. Xavi said even if Barcelona won the Champions League he would not change his mind and stay. The 44-year-old coach still thinks his team can win trophies this season.”I am more optimistic than ever with this change of dynamic … we’ll go for La Liga, it’s very difficult but we will fight,” he added. I have not spoken to the players about it, I saw how down they were today and I will talk to them tomorrow, and that’s one of the reasons for it.”this wasn’t how it was supposed to end with xavi 🙁 pic.twitter.com/5nG2yIJTX0— ٍ (@sixceIIs) January 27, 2024 Xavi, who starred in midfield for Barcelona between 1998-2015, said his departure had been inevitable.”It’s happened to every coach that has been at this club, it’s impossible that there’s a Alex Ferguson of Barcelona. I was a solution two years and three months ago when he was appointed, but now, thinking with my heart and about the club, for who I want the best, the best thing is for me to go on 30 June. I have to thank the president Joan Laporta for his confidence, we have a great president.”Another club legend has been spent. So what is next?
