La Liga giants Barcelona have been disappointing this season, failing to defend the La Liga title, suffering a 4-1 reversal at home in the Champions League quarterfinals, coupled with the Copa del Rey loss to Athletic Bilbao ahead of schedule, this season will basically encounter a situation where the four major players are empty! And Barcelona coach Xavi's recent series of remarks have also completely angered the team's top management, and team president Laporta has clearly informed the sports department to find a new manager, and Xavi will be swept away.
Xavi has always been known for his "big mouth" when he was a player, and he was burned many times because of his big mouth when he was a player, which caused an uproar. And after being the head coach, he still went his own way, and this time he ended up suffering. Speaking at the pre-match press conference for Barça's away game against Almeria, Xavi stressed Barca's lack of financial resources to cope with important operations and said it was difficult to compete with Real Madrid at the moment. These remarks are naturally fine for ordinary people to publish, but as the head coach of Barcelona, they caused an uproar and made Laporta very angry.
This isn't the first time Xavi has "gotten things done" this season. Xavi has publicly stated that he will leave the club at the end of the season after losing to Villarreal in January, saying it is an irrevocable decision. Surprisingly, Xavi quickly changed his mind, and on April 25, after meeting with Laporta, Juste and Deco, he agreed to continue to coach Barcelona, and Barcelona soon announced that Xavi would stay.
But after angering the Barcelona hierarchy this time, Xavi is basically impossible to continue to coach Barcelona, Deco has gone to Portugal, and it is possible to meet with Porto coach Conceição, and other coaches who have entered the Barcelona coach list are Flick and Marquez. Whoever it is, Xavi has to think about continuing to look for work in the offseason.
After experiencing the peak of the dream team, Barcelona has not achieved particularly outstanding results in terms of transfer in recent years, but has used Barcelona's golden sign to be keen on the operation of "visa-free white prostitution + low-cost transfer". And Barcelona's recent handling of Brazilian supernova Roque also makes people feel that they have any respect for the player. According to Radio Cell, Barcelona announced that Brazilian supernova Roque is not in the team's plans for next season, and the player will leave, either on loan or permanently.
As a future star of Brazil on the same level as Endrick, after Real Madrid announced the signing of Endrick, Barcelona signed the 19-year-old Roque from Atletico Paranaense for a total price of 61 million euros (fixed 30 million euros + 26 million euros performance bonus (linked to performance, goals and championships) + 5 million euros Golden Ball bonus (you can get it if you enter the top three of the Golden Ball)). The original plan was for Roque to officially join in the summer window this year, but in January this year, Barcelona announced that Roque had joined the team six months early.
Roque, who joined Barcelona early, was not relied upon by the team, only playing 13 games for the team, totaling 310 minutes and scoring 2 goals. As a 19-year-old young player, Roque's efficiency should be decent, but Roque himself was frustrated, and he didn't understand why Barcelona wanted him to join early, but not give him playing time.
What makes Roque even more sad is that he will also miss out on the Copa America because of this. This is a big stage to show himself, and Roque seems to have lost this opportunity because of this short and complicated trip to Barcelona, which may make him feel very regretful, because he seems to have fallen victim to the power struggle between Deco and Xavi, Xavi prefers the new stars produced by the La Masia Academy, and the outsider Roque is naturally not welcomed.