Barca’s problem – the story of Xavi, the game of Laporta and his stands | Relief

January 27, 2024, 9:16 pm.

The result is the least. I thought the same thing when the score was 0-2, at the moment when the comeback happened, and at the moment when Marcelino’s counter-attack was revived, as on important nights. Really important feelings for cooler In this great game they appeared long before the first whistle. Barça returned to Montjuic a month later, having lost two titles in just 10 days, and the fans greeted the team with applause.. It is unknown whether this was a matter of politeness, pity or pure irony. Buying what you compete for sounds strong and immature to the person who buys it. Even Javi doesn’t believe it anymore.

You think about the past or compare it with what you breathe during these crises when they appear in Madrid, and all you can do is rub your eyes from so many palmeros. The reality is that while the fan from Ciudad Real – and I know what I’m saying, I have several examples very close – is kept between bile, There is a certain excitement at Can Bars, but in general they avoid self-criticism.. You already know: the Negreira case is nonsense from the cave, La Liga is rigged and it is much more important to point out tit who pushed the veterans who lead the team and push forward.

So there’s no one to advance. Xavi came to Bilbao and said that the team is still in the formative stage and that we need to be patient. It was as if, instead of FC Barcelona, ​​he meant the Sagrada Familia. And, most importantly, he emphasized the courage to bet on the youth team as if it were the first or the only one. Seeing that the message was launched before Ernesto Valverde, who fielded 15 Lezama Lions in the Cup and three that debuted this season in the First Division, and forgetting that the same message was broadcast when Riqui Puig, Ansu Fati , Pablo Torre, Abde and so many other promises from La Masia, which today is far away or collects outstanding reviews like the scorer Ilias. After more chaos against Villarreal there will be more of the same, taking advantage of the fact that at least people were entertained. And the runs forward, repeated so many times, are already smelly, tiresome and their days are numbered.

. That is why it has already been announced that it will not continue after June 30. It does you credit. Something needs to be done. He’s no Klopp though (dear) and that could add to the uncertainty.

Colleagues I ask who usually climb the Magic Mountain this season, and who have previously sunk their teeth into the Camp Nou, say that there have been very few such stunts in the history of the Blaugrana. Not that I expected this – neither before nor since – and outdated reactions are not needed or missed at this point. The only thing the body demands is that the truth be told and that reactions be more related to what is happening, rather than what you would like to actually happen. In the press room, in the box and in the stands. Xavi is as guilty as Laporta, who encouraged him, and the people who believed them.

You could say that Iñaki Peña is transparent.. On closer inspection, this amounts to praise for Ter Stegen. And not to admit that Lewandowski cannot be the flag for one second more. and that Ferran, Vitor Roque or Marc Giu (in that order) should play many more minutes out of the nine than they do. Not to mention eight hundred signings later and billions spent later.a team that strives for everything cannot play with a right-back who is not there, it cannot compete with great players with a left-back who is right or inside, and cannot give the Oriole opportunities as if it were a school or an NGO. The great truth that Javi said in 3-5 It was hesitant. Yes, there is a lack of maturity, but above all, it was not on the bench. Up to this day. The announcement of his departure makes up for it.

This is even if they see the team without ten without a T-shirt or the obsessive scream of the coach into the camera, it is still Barça, which means that the requirements must be maximum in every sense. It is not enough to go step by step, that is, dissatisfaction after dissatisfaction, and justify every mistake, as was done – rightly – in the era of Setién or in the era of Koeman, when there were no levers and everything was anxious and patchwork. Playing here right now are, among others, the defenders for whom half of Europe is fighting (Cancelo, Kounde – you know why – and Araujo), the midfielder of the Champions League champion (Gundogan), the Golden Boy (Pedri), the eternal promise or expensive jewel (Joao Felix ) and several pillars of the League of Nations winner (Ferrand…). I’ve seen some pretty strong structures with far fewer columns.

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Now the story will soon focus back on VAR, how Lamin Yamal is playing and how Barca should look at the market. And that would be another mistake. Unless Arabia also wanted to take Laporta. Xavi, with his departure and his best press conference in Barcelona, ​​became a leader: self-criticism.