While Barça suffered another disappointment on Wednesday in the Copa del Rey, Xavi clearly opened the door to a departure at the end of the season.
Barça arguably saw their best chance of winning a trophy slip away this season. Left behind in La Liga, where it already has eight points spent on Girona and seven on Real Madrid, and faced with very tough competition in the Champions League, with a double confrontation to come in the round of 16 with Naples, the Catalan club was in fact eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey by Bilbao. Traveling in the Basque country, the Blaugrana lost 4-2 after extra time.
This new disillusionment necessarily further weakens Xavi, who himself opened the door to a departure last week by indicating that he would leave his post if Barça did not win a trophy this season. “All coaches of big teams depend on titles,” he confided on Wednesday, however not intending to give up: “We will try to win La Liga and the Champions League. I am serene. The most important titles remain. We will fight for them. »
However, if he does not succeed in reversing the trend, his departure seems inevitable. “I told a reality and I repeat it now. If we are not at the level of competitiveness at the end of the season, the normal thing is that we leave like all coaches, he confided . When I said this, you were alarmed, but you are investigating whether I should leave. We are in a big club, I know where I am and they will demand titles from me. Or at least compete to win some.”
