Xavi Hernandez He began his vacation on Wednesday after winning three titles in his second season at the helm of Al Sadd. He had the possibility of winning a fourth title, the Emir Cup, but the final has been postponed, so that next season will be played as the opening match and with people already in the stands.
So, Xavi, what signed a new contract with Al Sadd on the same Wednesday until June 30, 2023, he has almost two months ahead -the Qatari team starts the preseason on July 16- to rest and take a break. In addition, you can enjoy it at home and with your family and friends, something that you could not last summer because of the pandemic. In fact, He has not set foot in Catalonia for two years.
In any case, it seems that during your stay you will not be able to completely disconnect from the present. And is that The newspaper Ara announced that the player had made an appointment in recent days with the president Joan Laporta and with the sports manager Mateu Alemany in order to relieve Ronald Koeman on the bench for the next season.
This alleged meeting has been sharply denied by its surroundings, verbatim assuring that “there has been no contact with Barcelona”, but that does not mean that it will not occur in the next few hours or in the next few days.
In addition, Xavi saved an ace up his sleeve in his new contract, as we anticipated in AS. And is that the mythical Barcelona player managed to impose a release clause to be able to leave if he received an offer from the Blaugrana club, with the nuance that on this occasion there is a small symbolic amount of penalty, which the Sheikh himself confirmed by word of mouth that they would not execute in the event of Barcelona arriving. It is a mere formality that allows the Qatari club to be informed at all times of the negotiations, since Xavi could not unilaterally break the agreement.