It's a shitshow for sure, but if Xavi fought for his job with Laporta and told him that he believes he is the right man for the job and can have the team compete properly for all titles with a few tweaks and some new signings in the meeting at his house a few weeks ago, and now publicly does a 180 turn then well.......he shot himself in the foot.
What he said might be true, but being two-faced is probably not well liked at the top of club's hierarchy when half the board already wanted to fire him a long time ago which Laporta ignored.
So from Laporta's POV:
- Half his board along with some of his closest advisors wanted Xavi gone, yet he ignored them to keep him, possibly at the cost of his mandate if it didn't work out
- Xavi said one thing to him, and another thing publicly basically lying straight to his face
- He's having to watch shit uninspiring football versus teams with 10% of our budget and squad value and probably wondering how we're not able to play better whilst other teams can
It's incompetence from top to bottom at the club right now.