Control Freak Or Needed Change? New Rules imposed by Xavi&Laporta

Messigician

Senior Member
Let's talk about this Cules, it all seems a bit extreme to me.

🗣️[@fansjavimiguel🥇] | Xavi new orders that from now on will be governed within the Blaugrana dressing room

1️⃣ The players must be an hour and a half before training :

The goal is to have time to prepare for training sessions and to be able to make some individual talks.

2️⃣ The staff must appear two hours before training :

The aim would be to have everything ready to start the session when the players start to arrive .

3️⃣ The players eat at the Ciutat Esportiva :

l the players of the first team have to eat lunch in the dining room of the Blaugrana facilities under the parameters set by the club's nutritionists. A correct diet can prevent injuries and improve physical conditioning

4️⃣ Fines are instituted again

The truth that footballers are professional enough to know what they have and what they don't have to do can work in ideal scenario and in real life it is complicated. Xavi wants to establish a rules like Guardiola which ended up bearing fruit soon.

5️⃣ Exponential sanctions :

The fines will be fixed with a geometric rhythm and not an arithmetic oneThat means that if a player is late for training he would pay the lightest penalty, 100 euros, to the second, it would be 200, to third penalty it would be 400 and so on

6️⃣ 48 hours before a game you cannot be home late :

When the team is two days away from playing a game, it is prohibited to arrive after midnight. It is considered that the player must be aware that he has to arrive at the game in the best possible condition.

7️⃣ Meritocracy :

You play like you train and meritocracy is the only way to success. Only those who train the best and who have the most commitment at work will have options to be starters. The rest will suck the bench or in the worst case, they will not be summoned.

8️⃣ Control of extra-sports activities :

Footballers can have other activities that are not strictly football, but if these end up affecting their performance, by needing to travel or dedicate many hours, they will have to be supervised by the coaching staff.

9️⃣ Prohibited risk activities :

No more seeing a player surfing or riding an electric bike. This type of practice is sanctioned as a very serious offense and would pass to the legal department as it is considered a flagrant breach of the contract.

🔟 Good image :

Payers are a fundamental part of the club and they have to be the first to set an example. Empathic with fans must be shown and reprehensible attitudes are prohibited. During the trips they must comply with the rules of conduct and encourage Barcelona all times.
 

JamDav1982

Senior Member
Pique will retire at end of season hopefully.

No chance he is fitting those rules around his business interests.
 

behindbrowneyes

Well-known member
Planning and executing are two different things, that's why we need to wait and see. I like all of the rules and to say the least it is shocking that some of them weren't already part of the club for some time now (from after Lucho until now, I guess).

It is the perfect moment to implement strict rules. Only Busquets and Pique are left from the big winning team and they should know better from Pep's days. There isn't much headwind expected and if there is some, you know who you gotta kick out.

Teambuilding is a very important part too. I always felt that our team trained together, travelled together and played together, but had their own life apart from these 3. Time to ban smartphones from breakfast and lunch and have players actually communicate with each other. The more time they spend together, they better in will be for the team's chemistry.
 

Barcaman

Administrator
Staff member
Remiscent of what Guardiola did when he was appointed. What pep did was warranted as Rijkaard wasn't strict. It doesn't relate in this situation but whatever, I am neutral. He will be judged on his results, not rules he imposed.

Also pep had Messi, Etoo, Puyol, Alves, Xavi, Iniesta, Henry, Marquez, Toure.. and way less competition on market. Xavi has been dealt bad cards so let's not raise the expectations too high.
 

Gaudi

Senior Member
Normally this control things you can't do in big clubs (for example Kovac in Bayern tried), but since we are not a big club anymore (result wise) I would tell exactly that to players. Start showing me you are big and I'll treat you as such.
 

Messigician

Senior Member
Normally this control things you can't do in big clubs (for example Kovac in Bayern tried), but since we are not a big club anymore (result wise) I would tell exactly that to players. Start showing me you are big and I'll treat you as such.

Yeah it's kinda crazy this has been implemented

Pep at city wouldn't do this
 

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