tacticvarium
New member
Time to come back to Europe.
He already achieved enough in Qatar.
He already achieved enough in Qatar.
DonAK
President of FC Barcelona
Xavi's conditions for accepting Barca's offer:
- Take over in June
- Full control over the sporting project including incoming and outgoing transfers
- Puyol and Jordi Cruyff being appointed with him
- Joan Vila, former head of La Masia's methodology re-hired after he was sacked by this board a while ago
- Changes in the club's medical staff and fire the current chief
- His brother Oscar on his staff
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- Take over in June
- Full control over the sporting project including incoming and outgoing transfers
- Puyol and Jordi Cruyff being appointed with him
- Joan Vila, former head of La Masia's methodology re-hired after he was sacked by this board a while ago
- Changes in the club's medical staff and fire the current chief
- His brother Oscar on his staff
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KingLeo10
Senior Member
About time we hired someone who has a sporting project and stringent demands in mind and not just happy to be coaching Barcelona like EV was or Setien is. I'm not putting Setien in EV's bracket but I can guarantee no demands of this kind were made from him.
DonAK
President of FC Barcelona
Setien is in no position to make any demands. Real Betis fired him for going against their board and President.
He'll most likely be end up being similar to Valverde, but with a different and clearer style of play.
That's not to say Xavi would have been a success anyway, but I'm not surprised to see the club rejecting his demands.
KingLeo10
Senior Member
Which is an indictment against his calibre. We didn't have other options and he was the best or near best of the options. I'm fine with him for now.
I'm saying serious candidates like Poch, Allegri (don't want him but he's accomplished), Ten Hag, Xavi etc. are going to want full control over transfers and that's the kind of people we should be aiming for. Success or failure is another thing after that but a proper, controlled sporting project means there won't be a half baked attempt at it.
JamDav1982
Senior Member
The reason given to reject him was not being able to start immediately rather than the other demands.
DonAK
President of FC Barcelona
I don't see why there would be an issue hiring someone for 6 months and get your desired candidate in the summer if possible.
Especially when Setien was their 4th, 5th choice.
Vilarrubi
New member
Siiiiiuuuuuuu
JamDav1982
Senior Member
Wouldnt be ideal at all if players knew manager only in for few months.
El Gato
Villarato!
Pochettino? Control over transfers?
As for Xavi, that dude never compromised, which will never fly with this board or probably the one after. You need a president who takes a backseat and become essentially a passive investor for his kind of vision to succeed.
JamDav1982
Senior Member
He would want a big say in transfers but this idea any manager has full control is way off.
Pep at Barca did not even have that although towards end he was given a lot of say and transfers arguably got worse.
DonAK
President of FC Barcelona
Why would that matter when the squad need rebuilding anyway? Several other teams had caretaker managers before.
JamDav1982
Senior Member
Give up on last few months to rebuild in summer?
Be as well keeping EV.
Cant think of any team that have produced knowing manager is leaving but can think of a good few that have underperformed and that given as a reason.
JamDav1982
Senior Member
The coach should have a say but no coach/manager in the world these days will have full control.
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