Pique: "We should convince Thiago so that he decides to stay. Xavi has also be patient and in the end he has marked an era at this club."
When Pep left in 2001, Xavi was 21 y.o. and the next season has made 53 appearences. Now Thiago is 22 and Xavi is saying in the press that he is feeling like a youngster again and that he wants/needs to play every 3 days. From that point I don't understand why anyone would compare the 2 of them.
And it seems that Pique is more of a president lately: telling the fans how we should feel, telling Tito what he should do and now advising Thiago to do something that he didn't and that he admited that it was the right thing to do at the time. I also found this article about Pique from 2004:
"En unas declaraciones a 'Ona Catalana', Bernabeu recordó que desde que su nieto empezó en el Barca, con nueve años, ha tenido "un comportamiento extraordinario".
"Este año tenía que jugar en el Juvenil B y le pasaron directamente al A, lo que demuestra que tenían total confianza en él", dijo."
Where Pique' grandfather admits that the club trusted Pique and took him with Juvenil A although he should have been with Juvenil B..and he still chose to leave. Thiago and Deulofeu at his age where offered houndres of thoudands of euros and they still remained at Barca, unlike Pique and his best friend. So maybe he should take it easy with the lessons outside the football field and be more concentrated on what he has to do on the pitch.