I want to highlight Laporta's decision again to sack Xavi and to install Hansi after this back and forth theater last season. You can imagine under what kind of pressure Laporta was with Xavi at the end of last season, when he first begged him to stay and after months of asking and agreeing in the end, he still fired him for Hansi Flick.
And he didn't fire anyone, but Xavi, one of the biggest and most recent club legends loved by all culers.
Laporta knew what kind of risks he was taking throwing Xavi out and picking up a new coach who had many bad critics after his Germany job, who didn't speak any spanish nor knew the club or the league. If Flick didn't work out, Laporta's reelection would have been in serious danger and he still proceeded with his gut feeling that Hansi was the right person to bring the club back to success.
Of course the season is still very young, just 1/4th of LaLiga and 2 CL games played, but it could have alredy went into the wrong direction. Instead, we scored 33 goals in 10 LL matches, 11 more than under Xavi at this point, brought back the excitement and fun while under the most difficult circumstances of 8-9 players injured and just one new summer signing with Olmo.
Of course we need to wait the next two games to seee where we stand under Flick and they can go incredibly well and boost Flick's standing, or put us down to earth again, but today, right now, it was the absolutely right call of Laporta, many me included didn't support completely. Flick brought back the winning-, the rolling over your opponents mentality, while Xavi told the press not to expect much.
By all his faults, thank you Laporta for not choosing the comfortable side in keeping Xavi, but risking somthing with Flick. I hope I will not eat these words in the end of the season, but at this moment it looks very good.
