Xavi Hernández

[Iniesta Ultra]

Psychopaths wouldn't consider meritocracy for anything including who they choose for their team.

 

[ajnotkeith]

Ferran was


I think though that were we under more lax salary cap rules like the EPL or even Serie A, that we may consider a big sale of someone like Gavi or Araujo.

We don't have the luxury of selling someone big to then re-invest big. And then if they fail, then to re-invest big again.

Losing one of those instead is going to weaken the squad with our cap margins right now, and probably hinders our thinking. Case in point, Dembele is gone and no one is coming in. Not even all the registrations until we can wage dump Longlay and Dest.

We will see where we are next season, after the January (or summer latest) arrival of Vitor, and whether we struggle to register everyone again with that transfer expenditure. It could be another summer of trying to force someone out.

Probably Lewandowski, possibly Gundagan if he has a bad season, and maybe Kounde if he has another average one. Those are our wage vacuum banana skins right now.

We're going to have to face the music eventually though and stop kicking the can down the road. We have to sell and make money to get our head above water in the LaLiga salary cap, and eventually function above it.

Just staying below it forever won't be productive and it is a vicious cycle : we are going to have to sell huge amounts whenever we need signings.

I would bite the bullet and make some sales to shore up our future.

 

[BJJ]

We're going to have to face the music eventually though and stop kicking the can down the road. We have to sell and make money to get our head above water in the LaLiga salary cap, and eventually function above it.

Just staying below it forever won't be productive and it is a vicious cycle : we are going to have to sell huge amounts whenever we need signings.

I would bite the bullet and make some sales to shore up our future.

Selling is ok if we buy smart but that rarely happens.

With Xavi having a big day in transfers the money would be wasted.

 

[Masetro10]

Xavi is the classic feel good coach in a dark time. He isn't the answer. He damn sure isn't going to be Pep 2.0. This guy also is worse than Koeman in a lot of ways. He is just enabled by Laporta, while Koeman was playing with Juttgla and Abde at the end.

Now he is trying to sell Ansu to bring in 29 year old Cancelo or flop Joao Felix?? Get him out I do not care.

 

[Porque]

Cancelo and Lo Celso, Xavi's conditions for João Félix to arrive​

By all rumours Xavi doesn't want Felix. It is a Laporta push for whatever reason.

There are also whispers that Xavi is not keen on Ansu, hence him getting pushed out.

If it's between Ansu and Felix then it is an easier answer for me- keep Ansu.

As for the other two, only on loan. They have both been loaned out in recent years so in theory possible, but only if they work for us. No obligation to buy.

Plus you just know Xavi will not get the best of them. Especially Lo Celso who will probably be played on the wrong side and struggle to adapt.

Hell I don't see Cancelo working out particularly under his orders.

 

[Iniesta Ultra]

Xavi is the classic feel good coach in a dark time. He isn't the answer. He damn sure isn't going to be Pep 2.0. This guy also is worse than Koeman in a lot of ways. He is just enabled by Laporta, while Koeman was playing with Juttgla and Abde at the end.

Who feels good? Players look desperate as should and only a couple retards on this forum feel good about him.

 

[Loki]

This thread is the perfect place to see who you can put on ignore. Some should accept the reality we're in. There is no 2nd Guardiola, never will be. Time to get loose from the past.
Further, you really think there is someone out there who can turn around 7 years of decline in 2 years time? Stop imagining things. Xavi is the best thing, that could happen to this club. That doesn't mean he is perfect, or a great coach yet. It just means he started the turn around. The team started to run again on the pitch after years of walking. He gave the team confidence, when it was lowest and he built a unity again. You see it in every training session how they all feel.
When everybody wrote early season we'd be lucky to reach the Champions League last season, he won the league after 3 years of drought.
Your unrealistic expectations makes you blind to what he has achieved in this 2 years and where we were before him. Look at the last clasico statistics. And we would have done better in the CL, if not our whole defense was injured against Inter. You think Guardiola would have won against Inter with Roberto, Pique, Garcia and Alonso in the defense? This defense is even too weak for EL. And this Inter reached the final. In the CL you need luck, even a Guardiola needed 8 fuckin years to win it with 2 billion € expenditure.
Get your reality straight or keep drowning in the past. Your choice.

 

[Iniesta Ultra]

K a few retards, stand corrected.

 

[BJJ]

This thread is the perfect place to see who you can put on ignore. Some should accept the reality we're in. There is no 2nd Guardiola, never will be. Time to get loose from the past.
Further, you really think there is someone out there who can turn around 7 years of decline in 2 years time? Stop imagining things. Xavi is the best thing, that could happen to this club. That doesn't mean he is perfect, or a great coach yet. It just means he started the turn around. The team started to run again on the pitch after years of walking. He gave the team confidence, when it was lowest and he built a unity again. You see it in every training session how they all feel.
When everybody wrote early season we'd be lucky to reach the Champions League last season, he won the league after 3 years of drought.
Your unrealistic expectations makes you blind to what he has achieved in this 2 years and where we were before him. Look at the last clasico statistics. And we would have done better in the CL, if not our whole defense was injured against Inter. You think Guardiola would have won against Inter with Roberto, Pique, Garcia and Alonso in the defense? This defense is even too weak for EL. And this Inter reached the final. In the CL you need luck, even a Guardiola needed 8 fuckin years to win it with 2 billion € expenditure.
Get your reality straight or keep drowning in the past. Your choice.

Xavi fan boys.....fuck me.

They almost make as many excuses as he does.

That league win last season is all they have to cling to.

I wonder what it will take for them to see the truth?

Just look at his European record. If the club is happy just beating la liga scrubs and winning a league title once in a while, he is the man. His football is dire though. The football we played last season made AM look like an entertaining team.

He also wants big money. Hope Laporta isn't stupid enough to extend him.

 

[L3v1s]

Cancelo and Lo Celso, Xavi's conditions for João Félix to arrive​

By all rumours Xavi doesn't want Felix. It is a Laporta push for whatever reason.

So Laporta pushes for Felix but couldn't shove Neymar up Xavi's throat? Whatever, attack is the weakest link in this team so might aswell bring 10 clowns and hope atleast one plays something.

 

[Nello]

Cancelo and Lo Celso, Xavi's conditions for João Félix to arrive​

By all rumours Xavi doesn't want Felix. It is a Laporta push for whatever reason.

There are also whispers that Xavi is not keen on Ansu, hence him getting pushed out.

If it's between Ansu and Felix then it is an easier answer for me- keep Ansu.

As for the other two, only on loan. They have both been loaned out in recent years so in theory possible, but only if they work for us. No obligation to buy.

Plus you just know Xavi will not get the best of them. Especially Lo Celso who will probably be played on the wrong side and struggle to adapt.

Hell I don't see Cancelo working out particularly under his orders.

Kind of a bad sign when you don't trust your manager to get the best out potential arrivals or themajority of the squad in general.

 

[BJJ]

It's funny. Xavi was supposed to bring back our identity but the opposite has happened 😂.
Even Simeone made a comment on our 1 nil wins.
This lack of identity, lack of tactics and lack of progress on the pitch are clearly visible.

 

[Iniesta Ultra]

groundhog day till this amigo's fired

 

[jackraiden15]

Being kicked out of freaking Europa for 2 years straight and Xavi fanboys all happy with that, so strange.

 

[Xtroverto]

Absolutely unrealistic expectations on a squad full of shit players to believe FC Barcelona has any business playing European football. We have replaced world Champion footballers with third rate rejects like Romeu and Christensen. We have not had a worse starting eleven since the likes of Reizinger, Cristanval, Coco and Gabri made a mockery of our club. I have already said before, it will be bloody miracle if we can qualify for the Champions league next year. People are living in fantasy world if they expect anything out of this gang of rejects and has-beens. The only players in the squad worth keeping are Gavi and Pedri, the rest you could not even offload in a Jumble sale.

Xavi might not be the messiah people were dreaming of since the days of Pep, but given the state of our club and the complete shit show our squad is, no manager on the planet could do much more that what Xavi has already done. Considering the absolute turd this club has turned into, I seriously doubt either Gavi or Pedri will stick around for much longer and then it is total darkness with a billion Euro in the red, good luck to any new president and manager to turn this disaster around, it's not going to happen.