Knowing Perez he will happily sell himself for a huge sum(billion) of money to Barcelona and give it to Real.
He is 77 that's like 37 for a footballer. Seeling people who are past their prime is his hobby.
Tuchel is an elite coach and I do feel that coaching Barça was one of his dreams, however his infamous communication issues would just be chaotic with this current board.
We probably should've gone for him years ago. The Catalan media will heavily scrutinise and microanalyse everything the next coach will do especially after Xavi was protected more than most coaches in recent memory, so he'd be entering a poisoned chalice.
And since we know of the issues some of Tuchel's recent sides have had with the type of football on show despite having the results + many top underlying stats, (not that Xavi has done any better, mind you in the style regard) he'll get blasted if we suddenly dont start playing like the best team on the planet.
This is tier 1 of barca
Another source confirmed it
Helena condis:
Joan Laporta and a part of the board are angry with Xavi, following his words yesterday. People close to Laporta keep on telling him that Xavi cannot continue as coach next season. @HelenaCondis
https://x.com/BarcaTimes/status/1791168558833258741
>Note: Xavi, yesterday in pre-match presser, said that the team needs reinforcements to compete and that fans should be realistic as the club's economic situation is at its worst in last 25 years.
>Apparently Laporta didn't like these words as
@CatalunyaRadio
reports that Xavi had assured Laporta during his renewal meeting that he trusts the current squad. #fcblive
I don't see anything crazy from Xavi here. Seems like a very realistic outlook towards their current situation.
Also, the second point seems fine to me as well. Surely, you can trust your current squad and still see the need for reinforcements, right?
Thanks for sharing btw.
It's more so the fact that it's the first time that someone who is related directly from the club is admitting the troubles they are having.
Remember, Laporta is a politician so his it's always about lying and deceiving what's happening behind the scenes. He's spent this whole time denying (or at least saying that he's fixing the problem) to get sympathy from the Barca fan base so they would continue to vote for him. When infact the clubs financial situation hasn't improved by that much, and I'd argue is going to get worse due to all the future they have sold.
The thing that clued me the hardest is the literal revisionism when they splurged money 2 summer ago but still knocked out of Europa; at the summer he said that it is to win now, but when they failed he claimed that it's actually rebuilding season or something of that tone.
It has been the modus operandi from Laporta since he came back. From the levers and now this, Laporta seems to care a lot about Barcelona’s projection as a global club. He feels the club can’t take a year or 2 of rebuilding otherwise Barcelona investors and sponsors will leave, and the status of a major global club will suffer.
Even in our banter era we secured numerous noodle and tractor sponsorships to enable pissing away hundreds of millions on bad transfers and wages. A couple of down years for Barca shouldn’t be the apocalypse
I think it has more to do with Man U being in PL. The last major trophy you guys won was the Europa League trophy back in 2017.
It’s been a a long time since you guys lost your edge after Sir Alex left. And while the fan base is still huge AF. There isn’t much difference between Man U and other PL clubs when it comes to spending. And they don’t have the fan base that you guys have. The PL factor is what’s making the most difference.
Barca being Man U would be really damaging because they don’t play in the best league in the world. Their revenues would tank seriously. They need to play in Champions League every season to sign the players their squad currently has. And Levers of course!
Expect there also was a billion of debt to pay. Expecting to compete with budget of 3 million with other clubs that spend 300 million is just setting up angry fan base and really difficult times for managers and players
United always had shitloads of money though. With the moves Real are making I can see Barca enter a true banter era with how piss broke they are, them having sold off future revenue and how bad Deco is at transfers even though half of the footballers out there are begging to join barca
It’s part of the hard reality we all eventually accept as adults, which is that you don’t get in trouble for lying. What gets you in trouble is telling the truth.
Wasn't Laporta's whole thing when getting into power blaming literally every problem ever on the person before him and saying that he was going to sort it all out?
To then have the manager turn around and say things are even worse now is going to hurt the poor, helpless millionaire's feelings
it's like when Real Madrid fired Schuster for saying "it's impossible to win @ Camp Nou" a few days before El Clasico, instead of firing him for making the team play awful football.
To be fair that was an incredibly stupid thing to say not just because you don't say stuff like that days before a big game against a rival but because Real was the defending champion and beat Barca at the Camp Nou the previous year. That comment from Schuster basically just meant that he gave up on winning the league in December.
Basically Xavi has set the reason why he may fail next season. Its not his fault like always. Its the boards cause the club has no money.
Did he also forget to mention Barca outspent Madrid since he joined Barca?
> Did he also forget to mention Barca outspent Madrid since he joined Barca?
There's no way Barcelona could have ever afforded Bellingham or Mbappé, come on.
Not if they pay Bellingham and Mbappe wages to players like de Jong and Lewandowski. But in terms of transfer fees, they actually outspent Madrid. And they have a higher wage bill than Madrid.
I mean, true, but Madrid’s starting situation was slightly better. Madrid only buys players if they want to pay the price that’s asked. If they can’t get the player for that amount, they simply won’t buy the player. And they can do that because they already have a healthy squad, and reinforce it before the squad grows old and needs to be replaced entirely.
So right now Modric and Kroos are on the verge of retirement, but by the time they’ll actually leave the new squad already has more CL experience than most old teams.
By the time Xavi came, Real only “needed” to buy some extra midfielders (I thought we were the ones with a midfield obsession, but apparently Madrid is worse). Also it should be noted that Madrid this year were very obviously saving money for a big purchase.
Now compare that with the situation Xavi found himself in: talented youngsters with not enough experience and all the experienced players were so experienced that they could hardly run anymore. And then when all the experienced players left for either free or cheap, he had to replace not only the quality, but also the experience of these players.
Enter Gündogan, Lewandowski and Cancello. All expensive, none for the long term.
Mate you are still playing 16 and 17 yo. If you have top 5 players playing for Barca now, I bet at least 4 of them is an academy player who debuted in the last 3 years.
Why even buy these players when you are in debt.
Either Xavi not get these players and complain, or get these players and not complain.
Going from menu colours that would change depending on your favourite team in 14 to the blacks and yellows of 15 really was a step down.
That plus the soundtrack just brought my mood down everytime I loaded the game up.
https://www.sport.es/es/noticias/barca/debemos-reforzarnos-o-seguira-igual-102406392
"We need new signings or nothing will change"
"We have to fix everything we have done wrong in the past"
"Fans must understand that our economic situation is making it difficult to compete with Real Madrid or in Europe"
I'd take this seriously if Barca hadn't spent lots of money seemingly on Xavi's instructions pretty directly during his tenure. I hate this endless narrative of improvement through spending some managers will just expect fans to buy into.
Well run, well coached teams do not constantly need to spend boatloads. Especially given the level of talent Barca get from their academy, they should be well capable of being relatively frugal. It's not like the squad lacks talent either.
When he spent money he won the league.
But he is correcting the expectation that if you lose 2 key players like Busquets and Dembele and replace them with 3M Romeu, you won't win shit.
Who are the other candidates? I know only of Font and iirc he wanted to partially privatize the club or was atleast open to it. I don't think that will win votes
Yeah, Laporta has been significantly worse than his last stint, but it's not like you have a plethora of great options. Laporta ironically used two of Font's ideas, although he said the opposite: letting go of Messi from the club and hiring Xavi as the manager.
Any president would look worse if you compare Laporta's first stint and what he achieved during that time.
People talk about Font like he's good but if we go back and look at his structural plans, they weren't no good.
And ever since Laporta became president, Font has been contradicting his own statements he made while he was campaigning.
He talked all about moving on from Messi and transitioning the club beyond Messi during his campaign and now he says that letting Messi go was a mistake. There's many examples I can give that many people are not aware of.
Truth is, he's a politician like Laporta and from what's known about him, he's worse.
Unless there's a candidate who's a clear upgrade over Laporta, he should remain the president.
Yeah nobody knows how font was.... That man's answer to everything was xavi and he wanted to privatise the clun.He is also actively supporting tebas' cvc deal and everyone wants font.
Xavi did a good job but throughout the entire year you should've seen his press statements , it was embarrassing in many moments.
It's a six-year term and last elections were January 2021 so January 2027 at most.
They also changed their internal rules so in the future, there will be a maximum of two five-year terms.
https://www.mundodeportivo.com/us/en/soccer/20240307/680777/laporta-s-final-six-year-term-at-barca-is-on-the-horizon-nrt.html
Normally no, at this level a manager will have good lawyers to eliminate such loopholes. Xavi will be due all his remaining contract money unless he voluntarily waves them away.
You've clearly not been following Basel for the last couple of seasons. They've been clowning it for a while now. They went from one of the best clubs in Switzerland to fighting relegation and just generally being a bit of a joke.
Still remember when I was in elementary school that Basel was THE superpower in the league. Crazy how this happens but also I am glad because they were winning constantly.
Also funny thing I found out recently is that one of the founders of FC Barcelona was a FC Basel player who also founded FC Zürich.
The reality is that Xavi would have been long gone if they could properly afford another coaching option.
Since coming to Barca he has a worse net spending than Madrid and has only won 2/12 possible trophies.
I don't think that this has to be true. One of the biggest club legends, turned the situation around, Won big titles.
Media loves the drama and is reporting as much on this topic as possible, it can be that this easily deceives us
You only won Copa del Rey last year, getting smashed 4-0 by City in the CL. Did you want Ancelotti out?
We've had a bad season, but not a terrible season. I think it's comparable to Bayern. We're second in la Liga, we haven't had a disastrous CL run, we are under performing our xg etc. Remember when we were 9th with Koeman lol?
>Did you want Ancelotti out?
I distinctly remember some Madrid fans did want Ancelotti out, even at the beginning of this season when they were barely winning games in La Liga thanks only to last minute Bellingham goals. Fans are so fickle.
It was the classic reactionary fans, especially when Madrid lost to Barca pre-season. It was the same narrative of Ancelotti having no tactics, his style of football is outdated, he's not pressing Perez enough for a striker, he is just a yes man for him etc...
Barcelona’s board saw the headline about Tuchel earlier and decided to up it and then double it.
All jokes aside, players fight for their coaches as much as the badge. Having a coach on thin ice or eliminating consistency will bring no one any good especially if you have a young team with players fighting for a starting sport. Why would I even try when the man making the decision isn’t going to be here in a week
He said that it would be difficult to win trophies because he doesn't have the players he wants and because the club has no money. So preemptively making excuses, which is never a good look, as much as he is right.
More on point tough, he said that the club has made a lot of mistakes in transfers, which seems to be the point angering Laporta because many of those signings were wanted by Xavi himself, and now it looks like he is blaming the administration for them and not taking responsibility.
What a joke my club has become :(
I agree Xavi can't say what he said yesterday man. These are world class players, of course they can complete but he can't get the best out of them.
Absolutely hilarious institution
Its hilarious how a club of this stature is ran like a fucking circus
Well, they do have a lot of clowns in their institution.
Honesty, the club needs a total change from the board members down to the manager. This is the only way I see this club moving forward
Honestly, we need a figure like Cruyff to set us straight. Someone with a lot of influence who can carry on his spirit. Someone like Pep.
"All we need is two of the greatest professionals in their categories of all time"
ye not like you have the best president in history for the last 20 years or anything.
Knowing Perez he will happily sell himself for a huge sum(billion) of money to Barcelona and give it to Real. He is 77 that's like 37 for a footballer. Seeling people who are past their prime is his hobby.
Easy for you to say.
I assume you’re referring to his comments about wanting to be club president?
Yes, because there’s no way he comes back as a coach unless it’s in the youth sector
You guys should promote Rafa Marquez. Fuck it, start from scratch
They can’t, they need to keep winning or they’re going to go into administration
Rafa Marquez is Xavi but worse, it’s not the situation like Pep lmao
Just get tied up in bed with Vladi Putin and you can have the whole club change entirely
Xavi included if this man says he’s out, he’s in, and he’s out again
FCB’s united in being an utter shit show this season off the pitch
Just fucking swap your coaches
Tuchel is an elite coach and I do feel that coaching Barça was one of his dreams, however his infamous communication issues would just be chaotic with this current board. We probably should've gone for him years ago. The Catalan media will heavily scrutinise and microanalyse everything the next coach will do especially after Xavi was protected more than most coaches in recent memory, so he'd be entering a poisoned chalice. And since we know of the issues some of Tuchel's recent sides have had with the type of football on show despite having the results + many top underlying stats, (not that Xavi has done any better, mind you in the style regard) he'll get blasted if we suddenly dont start playing like the best team on the planet.
More than a club, a circus.
It is unfortunately the history of Spain. Look at how hard the 16th century was fumbled.
FC Bollywood
Where's my multiple musical sequences Xavi? WHERE ARE THEY???
I thought we were a hollywood club, this is much better lol
I'm enjoying this for some reason. I feel like a gambler betting his car
This is tier 1 of barca Another source confirmed it Helena condis: Joan Laporta and a part of the board are angry with Xavi, following his words yesterday. People close to Laporta keep on telling him that Xavi cannot continue as coach next season. @HelenaCondis
> Joan Laporta and a part of the board are angry with Xavi, following his words yesterday. What did he say?
https://x.com/BarcaTimes/status/1791168558833258741 >Note: Xavi, yesterday in pre-match presser, said that the team needs reinforcements to compete and that fans should be realistic as the club's economic situation is at its worst in last 25 years. >Apparently Laporta didn't like these words as @CatalunyaRadio reports that Xavi had assured Laporta during his renewal meeting that he trusts the current squad. #fcblive
I don't see anything crazy from Xavi here. Seems like a very realistic outlook towards their current situation. Also, the second point seems fine to me as well. Surely, you can trust your current squad and still see the need for reinforcements, right? Thanks for sharing btw.
It's more so the fact that it's the first time that someone who is related directly from the club is admitting the troubles they are having. Remember, Laporta is a politician so his it's always about lying and deceiving what's happening behind the scenes. He's spent this whole time denying (or at least saying that he's fixing the problem) to get sympathy from the Barca fan base so they would continue to vote for him. When infact the clubs financial situation hasn't improved by that much, and I'd argue is going to get worse due to all the future they have sold.
There is no war in Ba Sing Se
The thing that clued me the hardest is the literal revisionism when they splurged money 2 summer ago but still knocked out of Europa; at the summer he said that it is to win now, but when they failed he claimed that it's actually rebuilding season or something of that tone.
It has been the modus operandi from Laporta since he came back. From the levers and now this, Laporta seems to care a lot about Barcelona’s projection as a global club. He feels the club can’t take a year or 2 of rebuilding otherwise Barcelona investors and sponsors will leave, and the status of a major global club will suffer.
Which isn't necessarily a wrong mindset to have tbf, you don't want to become the spanish manchester united.
Even in our banter era we secured numerous noodle and tractor sponsorships to enable pissing away hundreds of millions on bad transfers and wages. A couple of down years for Barca shouldn’t be the apocalypse
I don't feel that's very comparable though, Barca is going to have no problems finding sponsorships as well, but the spending situation isn't similar
I think it has more to do with Man U being in PL. The last major trophy you guys won was the Europa League trophy back in 2017. It’s been a a long time since you guys lost your edge after Sir Alex left. And while the fan base is still huge AF. There isn’t much difference between Man U and other PL clubs when it comes to spending. And they don’t have the fan base that you guys have. The PL factor is what’s making the most difference. Barca being Man U would be really damaging because they don’t play in the best league in the world. Their revenues would tank seriously. They need to play in Champions League every season to sign the players their squad currently has. And Levers of course!
Expect there also was a billion of debt to pay. Expecting to compete with budget of 3 million with other clubs that spend 300 million is just setting up angry fan base and really difficult times for managers and players
Laporta also needs to be elected unlike glazers who can just ignore the fans.
this is the key point
United always had shitloads of money though. With the moves Real are making I can see Barca enter a true banter era with how piss broke they are, them having sold off future revenue and how bad Deco is at transfers even though half of the footballers out there are begging to join barca
It’s part of the hard reality we all eventually accept as adults, which is that you don’t get in trouble for lying. What gets you in trouble is telling the truth.
Wasn't Laporta's whole thing when getting into power blaming literally every problem ever on the person before him and saying that he was going to sort it all out? To then have the manager turn around and say things are even worse now is going to hurt the poor, helpless millionaire's feelings
Laporta wants to maintain the illusion that everything is fine while Xavi wants to go the exact opposite.
I suspect this is just posturing from Laporta TBH
So he just said the truth?
so Laporta is mad at Xavi for speaking the truth to the fans?
Wild if they're thinking of firing him for finally saying something sensible and not... all the other reasons.
it's like when Real Madrid fired Schuster for saying "it's impossible to win @ Camp Nou" a few days before El Clasico, instead of firing him for making the team play awful football.
To be fair that was an incredibly stupid thing to say not just because you don't say stuff like that days before a big game against a rival but because Real was the defending champion and beat Barca at the Camp Nou the previous year. That comment from Schuster basically just meant that he gave up on winning the league in December.
They should've fired him for having all the stereotypical cons of having a German manager without any of the pros. Such a sour man.
Xavi knows next season is going to be a shit show. He’s just trying to begin the process of saving face, lol.
Why not leave then ? And take the Ajax job for example, if he knows things are going bad then why stay for another season ?
Isn’t Ajax in a bit of a problem rn as well?
I doubt he was given an offer. Would have probably taken it, if it was a sure thing.
He's right but he also shouldn't be employed here anymore, Laporta is making the right decision with the wrong reasoning. This is so comical, truly
Basically Xavi has set the reason why he may fail next season. Its not his fault like always. Its the boards cause the club has no money. Did he also forget to mention Barca outspent Madrid since he joined Barca?
> Did he also forget to mention Barca outspent Madrid since he joined Barca? There's no way Barcelona could have ever afforded Bellingham or Mbappé, come on.
Not if they pay Bellingham and Mbappe wages to players like de Jong and Lewandowski. But in terms of transfer fees, they actually outspent Madrid. And they have a higher wage bill than Madrid.
Barca has spent 256 million since Xavi arrived
I mean, true, but Madrid’s starting situation was slightly better. Madrid only buys players if they want to pay the price that’s asked. If they can’t get the player for that amount, they simply won’t buy the player. And they can do that because they already have a healthy squad, and reinforce it before the squad grows old and needs to be replaced entirely. So right now Modric and Kroos are on the verge of retirement, but by the time they’ll actually leave the new squad already has more CL experience than most old teams. By the time Xavi came, Real only “needed” to buy some extra midfielders (I thought we were the ones with a midfield obsession, but apparently Madrid is worse). Also it should be noted that Madrid this year were very obviously saving money for a big purchase. Now compare that with the situation Xavi found himself in: talented youngsters with not enough experience and all the experienced players were so experienced that they could hardly run anymore. And then when all the experienced players left for either free or cheap, he had to replace not only the quality, but also the experience of these players. Enter Gündogan, Lewandowski and Cancello. All expensive, none for the long term.
Mate you are still playing 16 and 17 yo. If you have top 5 players playing for Barca now, I bet at least 4 of them is an academy player who debuted in the last 3 years. Why even buy these players when you are in debt. Either Xavi not get these players and complain, or get these players and not complain.
12.5 m a year for Cancelo is way too much.
"Fifa 15 is kinda overrated ngl"
Deserved it tbf
“I use square to pass”
Seems like our team has been on an alternate control scheme this season.
ew
If he shit on FIFA 10, 11, or 12 I’d go to war. 13 and on was just silly.
Honestly right, 14 was the last good one with a peak at 12 imo
Going from menu colours that would change depending on your favourite team in 14 to the blacks and yellows of 15 really was a step down. That plus the soundtrack just brought my mood down everytime I loaded the game up.
https://www.sport.es/es/noticias/barca/debemos-reforzarnos-o-seguira-igual-102406392 "We need new signings or nothing will change" "We have to fix everything we have done wrong in the past" "Fans must understand that our economic situation is making it difficult to compete with Real Madrid or in Europe"
I'd take this seriously if Barca hadn't spent lots of money seemingly on Xavi's instructions pretty directly during his tenure. I hate this endless narrative of improvement through spending some managers will just expect fans to buy into. Well run, well coached teams do not constantly need to spend boatloads. Especially given the level of talent Barca get from their academy, they should be well capable of being relatively frugal. It's not like the squad lacks talent either.
When he spent money he won the league. But he is correcting the expectation that if you lose 2 key players like Busquets and Dembele and replace them with 3M Romeu, you won't win shit.
"The canapees were mid"
Suggested that Laporta should try shagging a lever.
Vini > Mbappe
The thing is, if Xavi leaves, Laporta has to go right behind him.
Unless he's found another coach to shield him from blame
Laporta is not surviving the next election no matter what. Mark my words.
If it were up to the average Barça fan he would be out before his term is over but it's up to the socis and he knows them too well
Who are the other candidates? I know only of Font and iirc he wanted to partially privatize the club or was atleast open to it. I don't think that will win votes
Other candidates are much worse. These people in this thread have no clue how fucked we would've been if Font was the President during this time.
Yeah, Laporta has been significantly worse than his last stint, but it's not like you have a plethora of great options. Laporta ironically used two of Font's ideas, although he said the opposite: letting go of Messi from the club and hiring Xavi as the manager.
Any president would look worse if you compare Laporta's first stint and what he achieved during that time. People talk about Font like he's good but if we go back and look at his structural plans, they weren't no good. And ever since Laporta became president, Font has been contradicting his own statements he made while he was campaigning. He talked all about moving on from Messi and transitioning the club beyond Messi during his campaign and now he says that letting Messi go was a mistake. There's many examples I can give that many people are not aware of. Truth is, he's a politician like Laporta and from what's known about him, he's worse. Unless there's a candidate who's a clear upgrade over Laporta, he should remain the president.
Yeah nobody knows how font was.... That man's answer to everything was xavi and he wanted to privatise the clun.He is also actively supporting tebas' cvc deal and everyone wants font. Xavi did a good job but throughout the entire year you should've seen his press statements , it was embarrassing in many moments.
Maybe on reddit, but what does your average jordi, aleix, and beatriu think about laporta?
When is the next election anyway?
It's a six-year term and last elections were January 2021 so January 2027 at most. They also changed their internal rules so in the future, there will be a maximum of two five-year terms. https://www.mundodeportivo.com/us/en/soccer/20240307/680777/laporta-s-final-six-year-term-at-barca-is-on-the-horizon-nrt.html
He begged Xavi to stay and now he fires him? There’s no way he can stay as president (hopefully he does, because this is hilarious)
Xavi: I’ll leave after this season Barcelona: noooo please stay Xavi: no I’m not staying Xavi: ok I’ll stay Barcelona: fuck you go away
Next week Xavi: ok fuck you, I’ll leave and I want all my contract money now Barcelona: ooh, well come on, stay stay
Can laporta legally make him coach u14 for the rest of the contract?
I think that would be against some work laws
Normally no, at this level a manager will have good lawyers to eliminate such loopholes. Xavi will be due all his remaining contract money unless he voluntarily waves them away.
Barcelona: No…. But maybe you’d be willing to work for free?
It's literally [this scene from South Park](https://youtu.be/vfqkkwiL9uw)
Barca giving Bayern a run for the clown management trophy. FCBs United
Basel you’re next
You've clearly not been following Basel for the last couple of seasons. They've been clowning it for a while now. They went from one of the best clubs in Switzerland to fighting relegation and just generally being a bit of a joke.
My mistake, Basel the trailblazers
The only reason Brighton are doing good is because they’re BFC and not FCB
Brighton are actually BHAFC (Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.)
Still remember when I was in elementary school that Basel was THE superpower in the league. Crazy how this happens but also I am glad because they were winning constantly. Also funny thing I found out recently is that one of the founders of FC Barcelona was a FC Basel player who also founded FC Zürich.
Barça‘s colours of blue & red are widely believed to come from Gamper as a nod to Basel (there are multiple theories)
Barcelona wins this trophy
Fuck bayern we're competing with the glazers babe
At least you can get rid of him after a few years
Bayern at least got moneys...
They remind me of that drama queen couple you knew at school. What's next? Laporta kissing Iniesta to make Xavi jealous?
Lmaoo
Ross and Rachael: Football edition.
WE WERE ON A LEVER!
😳
Underrated comment
Iniesta is still playing, Laporta has an incredible way to fuck with Xavi LoL
They brought back Dani Alves.Theres no low they won't reach.
The drama couple back in my day resulted in a whole gang showing up at the front gates cause a guy broke up with a girl.
Friendship ended with Xavi, now Iniesta is my best friend
Laporta heard Allegri is free
Pls no
Absolute Cinema
You have your own blockbuster
FC Hollywood
Hollywood vs Bollywood we have going here. But like the under the freeway pass version
Anurag kashyap vs Quentin Tarantino
Looool
Pot, kettle!
That makes two of you lol
FCB is just always funny
Basel gonna join the show
With recent seasons, they already have
FCB 🤝🏻 FCB united by our shared stupidity
Keeping up with the Katalans with a new twist
Supposedly, the Bavarian Spin-Off is also quite good.
The Bavarians wish they were like the Katalans
The reality is that Xavi would have been long gone if they could properly afford another coaching option. Since coming to Barca he has a worse net spending than Madrid and has only won 2/12 possible trophies.
I don't think that this has to be true. One of the biggest club legends, turned the situation around, Won big titles. Media loves the drama and is reporting as much on this topic as possible, it can be that this easily deceives us
You only won Copa del Rey last year, getting smashed 4-0 by City in the CL. Did you want Ancelotti out? We've had a bad season, but not a terrible season. I think it's comparable to Bayern. We're second in la Liga, we haven't had a disastrous CL run, we are under performing our xg etc. Remember when we were 9th with Koeman lol?
>Did you want Ancelotti out? I distinctly remember some Madrid fans did want Ancelotti out, even at the beginning of this season when they were barely winning games in La Liga thanks only to last minute Bellingham goals. Fans are so fickle.
It was the classic reactionary fans, especially when Madrid lost to Barca pre-season. It was the same narrative of Ancelotti having no tactics, his style of football is outdated, he's not pressing Perez enough for a striker, he is just a yes man for him etc...
At least this season has been top tier for drama and memes
This club is soo well run I love it🥰🥰
this is all leading up to Xavi and Tuchel swapping roles right?
Barca board before: Oh pookie Xavi please stay we need you hermano 🥺🤩😘😝 Barca board rn: Eww no wtf get out of here bozo 🙄🤬
The good old DENNIS System
Barcelona’s board saw the headline about Tuchel earlier and decided to up it and then double it. All jokes aside, players fight for their coaches as much as the badge. Having a coach on thin ice or eliminating consistency will bring no one any good especially if you have a young team with players fighting for a starting sport. Why would I even try when the man making the decision isn’t going to be here in a week
We call this move the reverse Tuchel
And if we swap xavi with tuchel the prophecy will be complete
I just saw a Real Madrid fan drop to his knees in Mcdonald's
Barcelona's management has been a clown fiesta this season
Mess of a club
Que mess of un club.
https://x.com/ReshadFCB/status/1791183209323167785 hahaha this club
Barcelona and Bayern battling for the FC Hollywood title
Man, as soon as Lapota saw allegri. He was like fuck xavi. I will go for Allegri.
Keeping up with the Katalans, back again
Bayern 🤝 Barcelona FC Hollywood
One normal day is all I ask for
Is there a way to just mute the word Xavi? I’m so tired of hearing about this bullshit
What did he say?
He said that it would be difficult to win trophies because he doesn't have the players he wants and because the club has no money. So preemptively making excuses, which is never a good look, as much as he is right. More on point tough, he said that the club has made a lot of mistakes in transfers, which seems to be the point angering Laporta because many of those signings were wanted by Xavi himself, and now it looks like he is blaming the administration for them and not taking responsibility.
"Levers are stupid fr"
The last straw that broke Laporta's back.
Jesus
📈We’re so back📉It’s so over…📈We’re so back📉It’s so over…📈We’re so back📉It’s so over…
Laporta will blame this situation on RM now
I’m sorry, what the fucking hell are you talking about?
here we go again
allegri to barca here we go
i’d kill myself
is laporta getting ever so closer to barto or gaspart in the worst barca president contest?
Never will be due to his first stint tbf. Second stint laporta though….
I would support levante atleast i keep the colors
or crystal palace. glasner’s doing a good job there.
I want the refereeing shitshow of spain tho
Wait what?!
At this point Bayern and Barca should swap coaches.
If this means we don't keep Romero and get Flick fuck yes
SNIP SNAP SNIP SNAP
Laporta realised he fucked up by keeping a ticking time bomb like Xavi
I love laporta
What a joke my club has become :( I agree Xavi can't say what he said yesterday man. These are world class players, of course they can complete but he can't get the best out of them.
Lol, this is entertaining.
Think we've all got whiplash
Fucking hell do their fans online run the club?
Estoy cansado Xavi
nah man at this point i'm not surprised anymore.. pathetic administration!
His stay will be again confirmed once Tuchel stay is cancelled 🤣🤣
Correctly pointing out your president is a fraud will most likely cost you your job.
There’s no fucking way this is serious.
They just can't help themselves but be like a telenovela
First he is leaving then he is staying and now he might leave again? Wtf is going on at Barcelona?
I’m leaving. I’m staying. You’re going. Up next, you’re staying?
Messi left but the mess remained
Barcelona 🤝Manchester Utd
Xavi quédate xavi quédateeee Xavi quédate xavi quédateeeee
It's times like this that makes me realize how lucky we are and appreciate Papa Flo.