Xavi will be Barça’s new coach tomorrow

The signing of Xavi HernandezNow it reaches its final stretch. After an intense day of meetings throughout today, his departure was on track this Thursday and will take place in principle throughout the morning of Friday tomorrow officially. The technician will have a new meeting with Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Thani, the sheikh and top leader of Al Sadd.

After that meeting Xavi He will know if the Qatari club agrees to sign an agreement with Barça, something that seems to happen after the meeting held yesterday and the option to agree to a Barça friendly in Doha or a similar agreement is reopened. While waiting for that definitive answer and despite the conviction that there will be an agreement between clubs, Barça has already decided not to wait any longer and if they do not receive the ok today they will pay the termination clause of Xavi, estimated at five million euros.

Xavi He started the day meeting with his brother and assistant, Òscar Hernández, with their agents Fernando Solanas and Arturo Canales and with the Barça delegation, made up of Matthew German and Rafael Yuste. After that first meeting with the FC Barcelona emissaries, with whom they continued specifying details of their arrival at the Camp Nou, the Barça delegation held a new meeting with the leaders of the Al Sadd, While Xavi he went to his appointment with Al Thani, the sheikh of Al Sadd. The meeting was positive and both from the environment of Xavi as in the FC Barcelona that finally there will be agreement and it will not be necessary to pay the clause. But the last word is up to the sheikh and until he meets with Xavi again today Friday the final position of the Al Sadd.

The relationship between Al Thani and Xavi is still excellent and the sheik maintains that he will keep his word to let go Xavi. He was promised this last summer when he renewed his contract until 2023 and it seems that this will finally be the case. But in the meeting they had on Thursday of last week, hours after the dismissal of Koeman, the sheikh only put two conditions, that Xavi stay until this Wednesday and that Barça had a gesture with Al Sadd. Al Thani I expected that gesture to come directly from Joan Laporta And although the absence of the president has not been an obstacle, it has slowed down the negotiations. Without Laporta, the only interlocutor with the sheikh has been himself Xavi, While Yuste and German negotiated with the CEO of Al Sadd, Turki Al Ali.

While they wait for the definitive answer from the sheikh, the only thing that is clear is that tomorrow, Friday, the departure of Xavi of Al Sadd and his arrival at Barça. Today it even reached Doha a Barça TV camera, another sign that the official announcement is imminent. There will be no time for Xavi trip to Vigo to follow the game from the box Sweep, will be presented next week and will take the reins of the team.