[MENTION=11668]khaled_a_d[/MENTION]
1)
You don't need to win titles to pass the test with a midtable or upper-midtable team.
You are judged on grounds of football you played.
Even Pep is doubtful to be able to win anything if he was coaching Villareal let's say.
Hence, this is not an argument in his favor.
On the contrary, it confirms that he is afraid to get tried out and wants to use his hereditary privilege to jump straight to the highest job (Barca coach)
2) Poch was Bartomeu's 1st choice but the other members of his board rejected him because of his Espanyol past and his past anti-Barca statements.
Allegri was never an option, despite being top coach, as he does not play attacking-minded football.
Hence, there was no other safe option last summer
[MENTION=15262]serghei[/MENTION]
There are 3 HUGE RED FLAGS that tell us Xavi should not come close to the Barca bench anytime soon
1)
You are conflating football principles with the application of football principles. These two are not the same.
Pep has never changed principles, but he tweaks and changes all the time their application as he is adapting to the demands of the game.
Had he stayed within the 09-11 Barca way for ever, he would have never continued winning titles.
AGAIN, look at Mourinho to see what happens to a coach that does not change.
So, when you say that Pep-influenced coaches dominate nowadays, yes that's true.
They dominate though with styles that are sometimes very far from Barca 09-11 tiki taka game, like Pep himself who dominates differently.
And the influence they received is seen more on that are the principles behind their game, rather than how they exactly play.
Now, the problem with Xavi is that he may know the principles very well, and be a great student of Pep.
But it is questionable if he knows how to apply them in today's top-level of European football, and it is also questionable if he has realized how coaches who are still winning, like Pep, have adapted to today's needs.
It's all nice when you give a lecture, but it's very different to apply principles by adapting all the time.
Xavi in his interviews comes out as dogmatic about way of playing, which tells us enough about whether he will be able to adapt or not.
That's a Huge Red flag no1 when it comes to Xavi.
2) In his interviews, he says things like what khaled quoted above (That Busi is still the best DM in the world), or what I wrote yesterday about Pogba, which shows that there is quite some problem with his judgment.
If you cannot see that Pogba has an exceptional technique, then there is something flawed in you judgment.
Likewise, If you cannot see that Busi has declined, and that there are phases of play where he is absolutely catastrophic for the team.
So, on the top of red flag no1, we have to add a red flag no2:
Xavi's judgment is questionable, and IMO this has to do again with a kind of dogamitsm.
If for example, you don't have an impartial view, you will fail to see that Busi not being able to run impacts negatively the defensive transition of the team.
3) Finally, the fact that he contested the manager in training shows two things:
i) that he had authority to do so (part of the original Amigos as Khaled said)
ii) that he is dogmatic
ii confirm my point in 1
i confirms what Khaled said, and that he will not be able to lead any team with his buddies still around.
The 3rd Huge Red flag is that he is part of the Amigos.
You cannot remove the poison from a body by adding more to it.
And the fact that he does not want to try himself at another European club, and waits only for Barca, tells a lot about his attitude.
All in all, there are too many red flags one has to neglect.
It's not only a leap of faith, it's a religious expectation.
Nothing wrong with not liking Pogba's technical profile. I don't either. Flashy, but no substance. He's a bench player at United btw.