A directive and executive expedition of Barça has taken a flight early in the morning of this Wednesday to close the hiring of Xavi Hernandez (41 years) as a Barça coach. Sports vice president travel Rafa Yuste and the football director Mateu Alemany but no Joan Laporta which, finally, has stayed in Barcelona, as confirmed by RAC1. The forecast is that Sergi Barjuan continue with the first team in the match against Celta in Vigo and that the Terrassa team is presented next week.
The mission of the Barça delegation, advanced by MD and who had arrived this past dawn from Ukraine after attending the game against Dynamo Kiev, is to meet with the top leaders of Al Sadd and negotiate their departure. Xavi He has a two-year contract with the Qatari team. The sheikh had conditioned the OK to his departure to a negotiation ‘in situ’, the possibility of the return of Xavi someday and a friendly against him Al Sadd. Various sources pointed out that he also requested the presence of Joan Laporta, which has not been produced as it was already intuited.
Xavi and Barça already have everything agreed. They will earn less money than in Qatar and a significant part of their future emoluments will be in objectives, as this newspaper explained, and with a two-and-a-half-year contract, as specified by TV3.
Yuste, at the airport on the way to Doha
Xavi he is focused on the league game that he will play today and which is decisive for the development of the competition. The match against Al Duhail, to be played at the Thani Bin Jassim Stadium (Al-Gharafah Stadium), is scheduled at 5:55 p.m., two more hours in Qatar. Al Sadd is leading with 8 wins in 8 games, 24 points in total. It is the classic Qatari.
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