Before making its Champions League debut on the pitch of AS Monaco, FC Barcelona is one of the best teams of this very first part of the season with five wins in five games for 17 goals scored. A flying start for Hansi Flick, who is regularly praised by the Catalan press, but also by his players. Like Pedri, who was very complimentary towards the German technician, to the point of vexing some.
“At the club we work a lot more than before. I think the fitness coaches who came are doing us a lot of good. We worked very hard and it shows in the game. The team doesn’t drop after the 70th or 80th minute, but rather maintains the physical level. Flick is very good at giving us confidence. I feel liberated. I think Flick also passed it on to me like that by telling me to play without pressure, to do what I know how to do and to feel much freer.”explained the midfielder.
Xavi Hernandez denounces “poison” in the Barça locker room
And that didn’t go down well with Xavi Hernández, the former coach of FC Barcelona. Finally sacked at the end of last season after a completely crazy saga with Joan Laporta, his former president, the Barça legend didn’t appreciate Pedri’s comments. According to Sportthese statements have affected the former coach and his entourage, who feel hurt and surprised. Xavi Hernández would even have assured that these statements come because of a “poisoning” from an influential person in the locker room, without giving a name.
The Catalan coach’s entourage believes that Pedri was intoxicated by someone at the club, who told him false things about him, such as the fact that the midfielder would have been put on the transfer list by Xavi if a good offer arrived during the last summer transfer window. On the contrary, Xavi would be surprised, because he has always publicly defended Pedri and considered him untransferable. The tensions between Xavi Hernandez and FC Barcelona are still current…
