Xavi Hernández

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Titan98

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Temptation said:
@jamrock @serghei @Messi983

🚨🗣️ Xavi on his regrets as Barça coach: "I started my coaching career at Barça with high demands for the players and the club, as the club was coming out of a period where there weren't many demands..."

"My biggest mistake was that I maintained these high standards just for a year, from the time I arrived until we won La Liga, the Super Cup. But then I stopped... Some time after that, I was able to be self-critical and I said to myself, 'What happened to me?'"

"I had lowered those high standards and the players no longer had the same attitude, the same respect, the same effort. The standards kept getting lower and lower to the point that in my last season we didn't win anything. I learned a lot from this. I had to be self-critical."
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Why did he lower the standards or was he simply unable to motivate the team to maintain these standards?
 
Horatio

Horatio

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Only numpties miss the real reason behind those comments.

He’s appealing to big clubs and saying what happened in my 2nd season likely won’t happen again.
 
serghei

serghei

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Let's see how Flick deals with the same issue Xavi spoke about. Motivating players you have is tough as hell when you lack funds to bring them strong and direct competition for their starting place.
 
Barcaman

Barcaman

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Temptation said:
@jamrock @serghei @Messi983

🚨🗣️ Xavi on his regrets as Barça coach: "I started my coaching career at Barça with high demands for the players and the club, as the club was coming out of a period where there weren't many demands..."

"My biggest mistake was that I maintained these high standards just for a year, from the time I arrived until we won La Liga, the Super Cup. But then I stopped... Some time after that, I was able to be self-critical and I said to myself, 'What happened to me?'"

"I had lowered those high standards and the players no longer had the same attitude, the same respect, the same effort. The standards kept getting lower and lower to the point that in my last season we didn't win anything. I learned a lot from this. I had to be self-critical."
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Just saw it. Shots fired! :2guns:
 
Fati_Future_BallonDor

Fati_Future_BallonDor

Humble guy
Temptation said:
@jamrock @serghei @Messi983

🚨🗣️ Xavi on his regrets as Barça coach: "I started my coaching career at Barça with high demands for the players and the club, as the club was coming out of a period where there weren't many demands..."

"My biggest mistake was that I maintained these high standards just for a year, from the time I arrived until we won La Liga, the Super Cup. But then I stopped... Some time after that, I was able to be self-critical and I said to myself, 'What happened to me?'"

"I had lowered those high standards and the players no longer had the same attitude, the same respect, the same effort. The standards kept getting lower and lower to the point that in my last season we didn't win anything. I learned a lot from this. I had to be self-critical."
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I dont believe in lowering the standards and dont think players were less motivated but less focused, see that shit at Flick
 
BusiTheKing

BusiTheKing

Senior Member
I think it's inaccurate to describe it as a loss of motivation, what happens after a succesful season. The pressure is just different when you go into the season as title defenders. The mental burden of always having to live up to something, of measuring yourself against last season's succes, this weighs on players. Your wins don't feel the quite the same anymore, and your losses feel even worse.

Trickles down into how you play the game too. When you're a challenger, it's just easier to play with freedom and courage, to be on the front foot. It's not a dramatic contrast how we play this season compared to last, but I think there is a crucial change in the mood, even from the first game of the season. That's when you need your leaders to step up.
 
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JamDav1982

Senior Member
To me the Barca players look motivated now and this seasons issues have been more about teams adapting to Barcas tactics better and it is on Flick to get past that.

Not easy when club lose players on eve of season that coach didnt expect and when dont even know where going to be playing at times.

Best case scenario for Barca is they settle on some 'updated' tactcis for this season, players come back from injury and the impact of playing back at Camp Nou hits like PEDs in the veins.

Xavi leaves out that he used to bitch at players from sidelines.. he lost the plot and verbally abuse them... also likes of Pedri feeling like rushed back and saying training was not the best etc.

There is more to it than saying 'plyers lost motivation' and couldnt do much to prevent it.
 
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