What? Care to elaborate?
Xavi also won a La Liga unlike Koeman?
Yes they are. They are struggling because their forwards couldn't score of you put the ball on the goal line with no defenders or goalkeepers, they'd still find a way to kick it out
Xavi would be fired already if he wasn‘t Spanish, dropping out of CL group and a very poor start. He is poor again this season despite many signings.
Wait, what is this about Barca being knocked out of their CL group? Or are you talking about last season?
This has nothing to do with Xavi and is purely on Laporta.
And don't forget Lewandowski's big contract at his age and with that production. Nobody is going to buy that contract of them and they're going to have to get him to renegotiate.
He won the league last season? He's obviously going to be afforded more credit in the bank. All the moreso when he's their second best ever player
They dropped out of the CL groups but won La Liga for the first time in 4 years. That is going to give him some goodwill.
A foreign coach would have been sacked. All those new signings and can‘t make it out of CL group stage. Xavi has not impressed.
Lewandowski was an odd signing. Surely for a club like them buying cheap talented young players would have been the smarter move.
Maybe having a local Catalan manager who speaks the native languages is preferred. Which I wouldn't call xenophobic.
Right, no issue if everyone is treated equally. The Barca folks have behaved like cnuts though.
I like Xavi. He is no Guardiola of course, but for our style he is the best available. We lost Busquets and Romeu is nowhere near his level. We lost Dembélé and Joao Félix is nowhere near his level. Pedri, Gavi and De Jong almost haven't been able to play together thia season. Losing Pedri and Gavi is massive, not only in Quality but also in work rate. With a good defensive midfielder and a winger that can actually dribble plus a bit of luck in terms of injuries i'm sure we would play much better.
I'm not sure if it's a matter of being foreign or not, rather the fact that Xavi is a former star and has giant reputation in the club and in the city, he was always going to have more leeway, like Ole at United - the nationality mattered less than the legendary status.
No. Deserves more time. Like 5 years.
That would be incredible.
No way Alonso manages Barca, especially with his history in Madrid.
It's always bad for morale to lose their most important trophy of the season
I mean defending is a serious problem right now and normally a manager would intervene tactically seeing as the players appear unable to execute better and they don't have individuals that can fix the issue. Except it's Barcelona so making significant tactical deviations would put his job at the same risk - while winning - as it would losing but trying to play their football
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I think the latter two will get new ones in but we’re sticking with ours
I don’t know if he’s the problem but to me he has a serious attitude problem. He spends his time complaining about everything and doesn’t seem to ever question himself.
That is what Ole should have done, once you realise you are probably not good enough and it is not working
