“Sergi perfectly understands our philosophy and what we ‘culers’ like”
BARCELONA, 29 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, has not wanted to reveal the name of who will be the new coach of the first team, although he has assured that he has contact with a Xavi Hernández of whom, despite being one of the options, he has received reports ” very good and positive. “
“The reports we have from Xavi are very good. All the ‘inputs’ on Xavi are positive, but recently he has given the step to coach. Although we talk about Xavi, allow me to keep the reserves because there are also other options. Barça He has options, “he summarized at a press conference.
Laporta, without wanting to take anything for granted, did answer at length all the questions about Xavi, with whom he denied that his personal relationship cooled down during the electoral campaign, when Terrassa’s was in the candidacy of Víctor Font. “I did not see Xavi as general manager. I know the illusion that makes him and made him coach of Barça, and we had conversations of this type and others,” he explained.
And if he comes to the club now, it will be as a coach after training at Al-Sadd in Qatar. “I have been talking to Xavi since the electoral campaign and contact has never been broken. I told Xavi that I would try to get Koeman to fulfill his contract, Ronald is a myth of Barcelona and we had to thank the effort he made”, revealed the Blaugrana president .
As for his personal opinion about Xavi as a coach, after it appeared in certain press that he was of the opinion that he was not ready to be a Barça coach, he was sincere: “Xavi is in a very interesting process, evolving very well and I have very good references of people very close to him who know him better than I do in this area. “
In addition, he reiterated that he has been speaking with him since the doubts about Koeman began. “I speak with him very often, two months ago when we gave Koeman the margin of confidence, that we had to give it to him, we have been talking and I know his opinion of the team we have and what should be done. My opinion. about Xavi as a coach he is very good, “he reiterated.
“I have always said that Xavi will coach Barça one day, I have told him because he lives from football and is from Barça and has it as a priority objective in his life. I trust people who follow Xavi and other coaches. I have a very good personal relationship with him, he has a magnificent environment and we will see how everything evolves, “he went into further depth on the matter.
For now, until the new coach arrives, the team’s coach, Sergi Barjuan, takes the reins of the team on an interim basis. “We highly value the decision of Sergi, a club man with the experience to do this type of work and deserves the utmost confidence. Taking on the first team at this time has a certain complexity,” the president acknowledged.
“We are focused on the short and medium term. We have Sergi and it is our will that he assume the technical direction of the first team, he is a man of the house and has been part of the ‘Dream Team’ of Johan Cruyff and perfectly understands our philosophy and those of us who like the ‘culers’. We are hopeful, excited, and eager for the season to continue after an important change, “he said.
And he wants to see a Barça, from now on, faithful to his “genuine style”. “The philosophy is clear; a genuine style of playing soccer that has given us the greatest successes in our history. And Sergi knows this squad in depth, he will be able to work with them normally and we hope they have the maximum successes,” he aspired.
“The important game we have is Alavés. For us this game at home is very important. I think we are still hooked on LaLiga and if we had not failed we would be in a better position. LaLiga is open and we are going to fight for LaLiga. And in the ” Champions’ we want to stay alive and there is a very important game in Kiev and in principle Sergi will be on the bench. And we can be sure that he will do very well, “he commented on Sergi.