Xavi Hernández

[serghei]

This is why you pay your dues and serve your apprenticeship

He can do it here. Not like we can really challenge for anything other than top 4 in the near future.

 

[Catta]

This result is all him. The second half was all mistake after mistake, from the tactics to the subs, you don't know what was worse. Hope he learns from this, but I doubt it.

 

[JamDav1982]

Espanyol battered Barca late on in his first game when team lost all shape.

Not much has improved on that front in games since.

 

[jamrock]

He's substitutions sucked, luckily luke saved him.

 

[Birdy]

I don't get how everyone says he fucked up with FDJ sub,
when in fact Eric Garcia sub condemned us.
Not having Araujo at the back costed the goal, not the presence of FDJ

 

[JamDav1982]

Going by twitter the catalan media going after Xavi for the FDJ sub and playing Busi 90 min to compound it.

First time seen that.

 

[JamDav1982]

I don't get how everyone says he fucked up with FDJ sub,
when in fact Eric Garcia sub condemned us.
Not having Araujo at the back costed the goal, not the presence of FDJ

FDJ was the best mid and it was an awful substitution and team got worse.

 

[Catta]

Going by twitter the catalan media going after Xavi for the FDJ sub and playing Busi 90 min to compound it.

First time seen that.

That can't be true. The end is upon us.

 

[Horatio]

If this is true that is huge news.

 

[Birdy]

FDJ was the best mid and it was an awful substitution and team got worse.

I agree he had a good game.
But how is that responsible for the goal?

The goal was an 1-man mistake, with Garcia being an imbecile.
In that sequence, if someone was missed was Arraujo

 

[JamDav1982]

I agree he had a good game.
But how is that responsible for the goal?

The goal was an 1-man mistake, with Garcia being an imbecile.
In that sequence, if someone was missed was Arraujo

He wasnt really other than it takes away the one bit of protection for Busi and two slow CBs and ball comes in from area he was playing.

The goal is on Garcia but awful sub that left team more exposed and poorer on ball.

 

[Birdy]

My biggest disappointment with XAvi thus far has PARADOXICALLY nothing to do with tactics.

It's his horrible PERSONEL selection and management.

The main theme is well-known: HOW on earth are all AMIGOS playing all the minutes possible. Alba's sub tonight is the 1st time I have seen him subbing out an Amigo when there is still time left and he is not injured

But let's say we expected that from Xavi.
Then, look at this from tonight:

1) HOW ON EARTH is Gavi subbed, and Pedri stays on after the performance we saw?
2) HOW ON EARTH does Ferran stay ON THE WHOLE GAME with the performance we saw?
3) HOW ON EARTH is FDJ Gavi and Adama always the first to go out, and Ferran the last to go out IRRESPETIVE of performance ???

OK, this is beyond his friendship with the Amigos.
The guy promised MERITOcRACY. (Remember Xavi's rules?)
Where the FUCK is meritocracy is he has permanently a soft spot for certain players???

 

[fergus90]

My biggest disappointment with XAvi thus far has PARADOXICALLY nothing to do with tactics.

It's his horrible PERSONEL selection and management.

The main theme is well-known: HOW on earth are all AMIGOS playing all the minutes possible. Alba's sub tonight is the 1st time I have seen him subbing out an Amigo when there is still time left and he is not injured

But let's say we expected that from Xavi.
Then, look at this from tonight:

1) HOW ON EARTH is Gavi subbed, and Pedri stays on after the performance we saw?
2) HOW ON EARTH does Ferran stay ON THE WHOLE GAME with the performance we saw?
3) HOW ON EARTH is FDJ Gavi and Adama always the first to go out, and Ferran the last to go out IRRESPETIVE of performance ???

OK, this is beyond his friendship with the Amigos.
The guy promised MERITOcRACY. (Remember Xavi's rules?)
Where the FUCK is meritocracy is he has permanently a soft spot for certain players???

Ferran was his signing, it's going to take a fair few disasterclasses before he even considers it I think. But yeah it's hard to disagree with anything you've said.

 

[Birdy]

Ferran was his signing, it's going to take a fair few disasterclasses before he even considers it I think. But yeah it's hard to disagree with anything you've said.

How many disasterclasses?
And it's not that there is no one on the bench.
You had Dembele and Auba on the bench, even Luuk who was more suited to the game as we saw,
ALL WAITING
while Xavi's protected child was eating up time on the pitch being bad

 

[malvolio]

People are overreacting about the sub as they think it had major influence over goal conceded.