The seriousness of the Barcelona football club is at stake! After so many days and months of persuading coach Xavi to withdraw his resignation, the club’s president Joan Laporta changed his mind and today relived him from his duties. Xavi is officially out and will lead his final game in the Barcelona dugout against Seville in Sunday.“Today Friday, FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta has informed Xavi Hernández that he will not be continuing as first team coach in the 2024-25 season. FC Barcelona wishes to thank Xavi for his work as coach, as well as for his inimitable career as a player and as team captain, and wishes him every future success in the world. Xavi Hernández will be coaching the team for the last time in Sunday’s game away to Sevilla. During the course of the next few days, FC Barcelona will be making an announcement regarding the new first team structure“ reads the short statement from Nou Camp.▶ Comunicado del FC Barcelona https://t.co/tQ4BWsczxs— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona_es) May 24, 2024 So, how did it come to this? Before facing Almeria – in a match that the Catalans won 2-0 thanks to Fermin Lopez’s goals, Xavi expressed his dissatisfaction with the financial situation at the club.”The Barça fan must understand that our position is difficult, especially on an economic level, in order to compete appropriately at the top level, with Real Madrid in Spain, that is, the Champions League clubs that invest a lot of money. It is no longer like 25 years ago, when the coach said he wanted such and such a player and he would immediately come to us” Xavi said.Catalan craziness – Laporta wants Xavi out now, coach’s statements are disturbing the supremoOn a first glance, it didn‘t looked like much, since the former Barca player told the truth. But Laporta was furious, according to the reports, as he believes that players like Robert Lewandowski, Ferran Torres, Jules Kounde, Raphinha, Andreas Christensen and Franck Kessie (all of whom arrived in Laporta’s first year of his second term) are of top quality and that a lot of money has been invested in their wages. This was the final straw for the Barca president and it all gone south from that point very quickly.One step closer to a deal: Flick and Deco already spoke, impressions are positiveIn recent days, he spoke with Hansi Flick and sporting director Deco in London and it all finished very positively. Former Bayern Munich coach waited long enough, turned down Chelsea offer and will get the opportunity to lead of the biggest clubs in the world. Just recently, a well respected Mundo Deportivo wrote that the possible termination of Xavi‘s contract before it‘s natural end will cost Blaugrana as much as 20 million euros! In the upcoming days we will see if Laporta managed to agree some lower compensation with the already former coach, or his anger toward Xavi totally blinded his judgement and he didn‘t care about 20 million. ##NAJAVA_MECA_8123988##
