Xavi Hernández

Titan98

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@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."
Why did he lower the standards or was he simply unable to motivate the team to maintain these standards?
 

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

Senior Member
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

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@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."

Just saw it. Shots fired! :2guns:
 

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