Xavi Hernández or Rafa Márquez. The FC Barcelona sports area is not currently considering any alternative for next season’s bench than the continuity of the current coach or the promotion of the Barça Atlètic coach. “Xavi has shown signs lately that he can and wants to continue,” different Barcelona sources agree. The Barça coach avoided any comment on his future at the end of the classic —“This is not the time to talk,” he stressed in the Santiago Bernabéu press room— after in previous days he reiterated that “today nothing has changed ” regarding the announcement on January 27, when he stated that he would leave the team on June 30, after the 3-5 defeat against Villarreal.
Xavi is willing to recant as long as some conditions are met, which focus above all on the list of signings and losses, after last season he assumed the plan set by the board chaired by Laporta. The coach requested to hire a right back —Foyth—, a midfielder to replace Busquets —Zubimendi, Kimmich or Guido Rodríguez— and an unbalanced interior —Bernardo Silva. The answer was: Oriol Romeu, Iñigo Martínez, João Félix, Cancelo, Gündogan and Vitor Roque. The disagreement, however, yesIt remains because the board will not accept Xavi’s demands. The talks, however, resumed upon the return of the Santiago Bernabéu match, pending a meeting with the sports commission this week.
The sports management understands that, for the moment, it is Xavi who has to make his decision public because it was also the coach who initially resigned from continuing at Barça. “We have been working regardless of whether he continues or not,” the club said, once it was assumed that otherwise the best placed for the bench is Márquez given Barcelona’s precarious economic situation. The lack of money also jeopardizes the improvement of the squad and, therefore, the only solution is the transfer of players who have a very good market such as Araujo, Raphinha or Frenkie de Jong.
The ambiguity of classic 3-2. The Barça team will visit the Montilivi stadium on the 4th.
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