We are the only "big" club that regularly get trashed, year after year. Losing is one thing, it happens, but every year we take couple of awful trashings. For example, Bayern is having a shaky season (for their standard), yet they don't get trashed.
This. I've been on about this point for a while. And Xavi is more of the same. Okay, we had big missing players, if we went out, it wouldn't be the end of the world. But we got smashed 4-0 and it really could have been 6-0.
How can you possibly absolve the manager in this case? It's not like we tried our best but lost out to the better team, we got annihilated at home. And for those with the 'Xavi masterclass in the league' discourse, well, he's beating absolute scrub teams 1-0, it's not like he's destroying them either. The second we see a half decent team, we get destroyed.
How many goals have we conceded across Europe and to Madrid this season, on a goals per 90 basis? That tells you much of what we can see with our eyes. Xavi is clueless. Winning 1-0 with our squad against scrubs playing bottom half of the league type football doesn't take a great coach, heck it just takes someone who isn't retarded.
There's posters here who will do any kind of mental gymnastics that linguistics will allow to defend Xavi, and not my post nor anyone else's is going to change their mind. I really don't expect miracles and don't expect us to win last night - I just want to see someone at the helm we can put our trust in for our rebuild. Considering Xavi is a Qatar level coach, he doesn't deserve 1.5 seasons of 'the benefit of the doubt'. Only established, top level managers get that. Then you add to that constant humiliations like EL exits, CL group exits, thrashings against big teams, ang generally boring and abysmal football, and you have all the reasons you need to sack Xavi ASAP.