Xavi announces a day of farewells against Villarreal

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The League ends and late, very late, with the title sentenced for a long time, with the minimum aspiration of Barça covered and at 10 pm this Sunday against Villarreal. Xavi’s team has their bags packed to go to Australia as soon as the game is over, which will delay the holidays for a few days.

Farewell night at the Camp Nou, where today several players will play (if they do!) their last game. Some know it, others don’t. Neto Murara, Óscar Mingueza, Samuel Umtiti, Riqui Puig and Martin Braithwaite are some of the players with whom Xavi has spoken to clarify that next year does not have them. Less even than this season. They have two and a half months to find a way out.

Xavi Hernández has two and a half months to model the squad to his liking. Closed two reinforcements (Andreas Christensen and Franck Kessié), there are other operations outlined and a player more desired than others, verbalized for the first time by the Egarense coach: Robert Lewandowski, the center forward of Bayern.

Solutions

“You have to make decisions,” Xavi proclaimed, announcing a day of farewells. And he has already made some of those decisions, advising players to pack their bags. Decisions that, in reality, are “solutions” for Barça, with the purpose of avoiding another campaign like the one that is ending. Although the coach has underlined that during his tenure there has been an “obvious improvement” in the team and that “a very critical situation” at the club has been resolved, Xavi maintains that it has not been “a good season” and that “he can do it again.”

These five players are not the only ones to be ordered to leave Barça. “I have to be honest with them, with me as a coach and with the club,” said Xavi of the “tough decisions” he has to make. It may also be the last game of Ousmane Dembele, although the technician wants it to continue. Negotiations are still going on. The League ends but the soap opera continues.

“We cannot add another year without titles. We have to turn this around as it is next year”

Xaci Hernández / Barça Coach

There will be more casualties in what is intended to start a new era at Barça. As Xavi already announced, and the coach himself assumes, everything will depend on the economic situation. There has been no progress or improvement with new admissions. There’s time.

Xavi doesn’t worry. Joan Laporta has given him guarantees that he will have reinforcements. It is not known what budget there will be, nor if it will be enough to cover each demarcation with two players as the coach intends or it will be necessary to compensate for the deficiencies by resorting to multifunctional footballers who can occupy several positions.

Look forward

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The planning is done. Provisionally, in pencil, depending on the new income that occurs, announced by Laporta but which has not yet materialized. Xavi understands that with the closure of the League and the conclusion of his first campaign, he will no longer be able to continue justifying himself in the past. Neither he nor anyone.

Barça has not been able to compete in the bid for Erling Haaland or Kylian Mbappé due to the debt bequeathed by Josep Maria Bartomeu and his board and the very high contracts that break the salary limit. “The economic situation was what we have inherited, but we can no longer look back.” He now has to turn his head forward. “We can’t add another year without titles. We have to turn this around somehow next year,” he admits. And Xavi takes on the challenge.



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