Barcelona sporting director backs Xavi as the ‘perfect coach’ for the club’s rebuild: “Accepted the challenge”

Barcelona started the 2023/24 season rather brilliantly under Xavi’s tutelage as the Spaniard coached his team to not only brilliant performances, but also impressive wins, including back-to-back 5-0 victories against Real Betis and Royal Antwerp.

The blaugranes have, since then, however, hit a horrible rough patch, especially over the last few weeks.

It started with a demoralising loss against Real Madrid, where Barça were by far and large the better team for most of the game, but endured a 92nd-minute winner from Jude Bellingham.

And when they were expected to bounce back, Xavi’s men put in arguably their worst performance in years as they were played out of the park by Real Sociedad, but somehow managed to escape with all three points.

Unlike La Real, though, Shakhtar Donetsk converted their chances and beat Barcelona in the UCL before the Catalans squeezed through a comeback win against Deportivo Alaves in this weekend.

These results and performances have resulted in the fanbase calling for Xavi’s head, even though the Spaniard has only recently extended his contract.

Amidst all of this, Barcelona’s sporting director Deco has come to the coach’s aid, saying, “I have no doubt that Xavi is the best coach for Barça. He is the best coach for this project that was started a few years ago.”

“He accepted the challenge of coming at an important time and is the perfect coach to rebuilt everything we are trying to rebuild.”

Barcelona’s coaching position has forever been considered the most difficult in the world, because not only are you expected to win, but those wins must come in style. Quality and results must go hand-in-hand, as the late Johann Cruyff suggested.

And being the flag bearer of Barcelona’s golden generation, Xavi must be the first one frustrated by the performance of his team so far.

“We are not going through some difficulties, we have to manage many games and surely Xavi is the first one who wants to play better,” Deco added in aid of his former teammate.

Source: RAC1