ABSOLUTE MADNESS 👀 Reaction to Xavi staying on with Barcelona for next season | ESPN FC 

I'm saying the same thing!!

I agreeeeee

I disagree. I think there was a moment where Xavi was sick of the bs, and once the pressure let up he had the space to enjoy his players more and that brought unity and optimism, and that’s when he changed his mind.

@@brianjaneczko with you on this

Stop with this rubbish about we won the league . We won the league looking like Mourinho. Parking a bus and winning dozens of games 1-0 . It was horrible and embarrassing. This season is the same thing . We won against psg with PSG dominating us . Not controlling the game , not imposing our style on the teams, nothing. How have we become so mediocre ? We used to be a team proud about how beautiful our team played , it bring joy to us . But these joke fans has now resort to boasting all over that we won looking horrible . I hope you ready for the same football another season .then you all will blame VAR , referee, fifa , Tebas and everything else

@@curtischarles5299Barca fans really can’t be pleased by anything, the pep and Messi days ain’t coming back, accept it and move on man

Yes, also, Arteta is not playing in the farmers league..and for Barca, they needed someone to coach for free...enter Xavi. No other coach would manage without uncertainty of getting paid. Well played Barca !

Mikel arteta can do amazing job than Xavi with that Barcelona team. Things were easier for Xavi when he first arrived at Barca. The barcelona squad had great players while Mikel arteta had to build the arsenal club from scratch

Arsenal have money. Barca doesn't. ​@@user-ne9jy9lm8p

Xavi staying is the worst thing that can happen to Barcelona

@@boooomchannel8303 barce dont have money to sack him...and xavi can just refuse to resign.

@@boooomchannel8303 Who else can replace him? Flick? He does not do good with young players and Barcelona can only make work with young players. Hansi Flick also needs good players to help Barcelona win trophies

Huge temper man 😅

@@boooomchannel8303 then u obv dont watch the games

everyone already talked about that a hundred times. That Barca wanted a quality pivot last summer and did not get one was loud and clear, and the effects of that have been seen all season.

I know pivot is important.. and he was a key player.. real Madrid also lost benezema and they had to bounce back..til this they haven't found a guy to replace him.. but they gonna win the league and probably the ucl.. it's about find new ways of winning..

@@CecilJooste Real replaced Benzema with Bellingham by spending 103M euros. There's your difference.

@@85Sudi he is not a striker.. they didn't bring him in to score all of the important goals.. but it fortunately it work out like that for them..

@@CecilJoostethey are essentially playing him as a striker/false 9 though. Point is Madrid have the money to buy whoever they want, and they bought Bellingham. Barca on the other hand couldn’t really do much to replace the players they lost.

Being an international in USA would be amateur football here.

sure a title out of three in a league where there is really only two clubs competing for 90% of the league titles.. He also failed horribly three years running in Europe with them.

@@logirexArsenal wouldn’t win a single league title in La Liga so what are you trynna really say here? I don’t hear Arteta getting criticized as he should be. While Xavi has had to work with the worst Barcelona era to exist

What title did he won ?? Lool stop the cappp. He didn’t win anything in his first year, he won the second year

​@@OmarAmer-kg5gt it was a season and a half

Over 300 million spent on signings while also getting Aubameyang, Gundogan, Kessie, Cancelo, Christensen and Felix for no transfer money but you believe Xavi a manager that have said himself he isn't good enough, has displayed that he is scared to drop Lewandowki no matter how badly he plays, the same manager that have showed that he lacks basic managerial skills and temperament....this is the same guy you say needs backing????? The one that doesn't rotate his squad unless there is an Injury?????🤔

There were rumors of Rafa Marquez a while ago but that fizzled out pretty quickly

Flick was waiting in the wings

​​@@NikkoNikko98Had Barcelona chosen Rafa Marquez, they would have been back at square 1. By that i mean, an unproven manager.

Could've gone for Southgate

@@OscarHernandez-jt9en The delusional propaganda that Barca spreads... as if a top coach like Flick would be desperate to go to Barca today and have the nails put on his coaching career. It is a difficult job given the club's finances and this result was the best outcome they could hope for - have Xavi hang around and be competitive. The league and super-cup wins constantly given as his benchmark is deceptive as it takes Real Madrid going off the rails for Barca to succeed... RM were leading by 10 points before the WC and they spectacularly collapsed after the world cup for approx 2 months and Barca didn't (credit there). That 2 month period was enough to steal 2 titles. Madrid were more focused this time around and brought back the pre-world cup gap between the 2 teams. This gap is potentially going to get bigger next season and a new Manager at Barca would not have been wise.

Because no one cares who is the manger as long as Referees are getting their payments.

It’s only a circus when Barca does it but when Madrid go and celebrate with their fans after winning a clasico. It’s no longer a circus it’s having “aura.” Or when the official page of the club goes to Twitter to cry about the ref’s decisions it’s “standing against corruption.” LOL

​@@Troublesome_96 😂 dont give your attention to them bro, your just wasting time in your life

@@Troublesome_96Madrid would’ve been 8 points clear even without the Classico. We care way more about the champions league

Dan is Madridista… I won’t expect any better. Dan hates Barca.

He is Barca hater for sure 😂

He's another anti-barca guy in this show. An aggressive one too

Dan used to work for Real Madrid TV mind you... so not surprised at the least

sure it's everyone else that forced him to resign mid-league, and say he would resign if he didn't win anything, and laporta say losing would have consequences. oh Dan has done it again.

Arteta didn't decide to leave and then go back on what he said. That's what's weird

@iancrane5705 Mind games G.

@@elclandestino93every Manager in history has played mind games to get the most out of their players, none of them acted like they were leaving and then changed their mind three months later

My*

​@@SickJack-iu3us They pronounce it 'me' mate

@@SickJack-iu3uswhat an ignorant fob, stay in Pakistan or where the f u r from, surprised they allow u to use internet there.

He was falling off his chair after every single CL quarter final.

Two teenager out of 11 players is not a teenage team when you lose we play teenager when you win we have the most talented teenagers stop crying when things go bad you paid 200min for lewa raphina kounde ferran. And there is araujao christensan cancelo fdj gundo all 25plus plyers in playing 11 so dont say you went to qf with teenagers bvb ajax plays with more younger squad than barca and always compete with teenagers in ucl nothing new

@@suhasnalawade5612 he wrote 'with teenagers', not 'teenage team'. Show me another team in CL QF that played with a 17 year-old as centre back. That's what he is trying to get at.

He win because he had Busquets and Alba. After they both left, Barca is not better then Girona.

Barca won a CL with a teenager back in 06. So where is the CL this season?

@@guneytopal1713 What! Who?!

Yeah I can’t see a replacement. The only one who can replace Xavi is Pep or maybe Lionel Scaloni

Exactly he needs more time and real culers have faith in him.

Craig needs to stick to playing golf and leave the commentating to actual experts.

@@immersion24 craig's chelsea still a mid table team....

@@serialkilla23 And what did Craig achieve when he played at Chelsea and Scotland?? Compared to what Xavi did for Barcelona and Spain.....Smh

😂😂😂😂​@@P4P1980

whats he supposted to do vs bellingham+mbappe era, mbappe aint losing the league

@@XXBlueThanosXX I mean, in the same sense, when Real Madrid won the 5 champions league, they couldn’t win the league more than once. Prior to that it was FCB. You’re just predicting an era like we thought PSG MNM era.

I agree bro 💯 . Just look at Arsenal during Arteta's era , They've grown to be a contender for the title in such a reasonable amount of time and have developed a lot under him . Something that fans should take note of is that no matter the circumstance of any given club , Time is key to the development and structure of a club given the manager and his style of play which I believe that Xavi is the right man to handle the wheel

Same goes to zidane who won 3 ucl cup back to back and came to manage madrid when it was in shamble who also was a fresh manager even from xavi but these 2 needs more respect they both are good manager as they were players..

Factos bro ❤

Xavi has failed in Barcelona, he is just lucky that he can use the financial crisis as an excuse but if you look tactically you can tell that Xavi is not an elite coach. He has had one of the best squads in Europe in terms of Names but xavi hasnt been able to get the best out of them. Barcelona has brought in 20 players since he came in and people want to defend him using the financial crisis?????? now I understand why Barcelona is far from competing with Real Madrid because of too much sentimentalism.

@@pyrox4549 zidane had a superstar ready made team

So many big clubs want a manager this summer or next summer. Barcelona would've had to suffer in the market and go with what they didn't want.

He didn't win the league or any other trophy, that's a bad season. That should be Barca standard.

He couldn’t even win the copa del Rey to at least save face … stop with the excuses

La liga teams are quite easy to beat especially since last season. Other than those in the top 5/6 the rest you can beatbwith your eyes shut. The issue is most of the performances seems to have been us playing with our eyes shut. The performances against Almeria, against Barbastros against Villareal twice, against Antwerp, against porto. I'm glad that you also mentioned the goal difference. 33 is quite low for the standards of this club and the quality of this barca side. The issue is we conceed a little too many and we score a little too less. The results this season does not really matter but rather performances and up until March or there about, performances both in attack and defence was atrocious.

Excuses hahahaha with such a team hahahaha he did good enough

Failed three straight years in Europe and won nothing. Is that what Barcelona has become. My guess is they got not money for another manager 🤷‍♂

He wanting to leave was a lie all along to take off pressure

Xavi really thinks he's played some mind games fr😂

Mind games that didn't work. He blamed the media heavily on his decision to leave, now he's gotta answer them again for a year at least.

werent happy when he won the league and beat you in spanish cup final... best believe it can happen again

@@freymar6866have you seen our potential lineup next year? We haven’t lost 3 classicos this year and we’re getting better next season

@@asianpablo1574RM has won 4 straight clasicos

@@asianpablo1574rest , we gonna sit down here and watch potential my foot we lost the league as ourselves due to the shitty points we dropped this season

@@freymar6866 keep living in the past. Haven’t qualified past the quarter finals of the champions league since 2018/2019 and have lost 4 straight clasicos. Your club is in shambles. They’re only keeping Xavi because they wouldn’t be able to find anyone else and you know it. You also are unable to sign any players next year. Seriously good luck. I predict trophyless seasons for Barca for the next 3-5 years

Barca won the leauge and super cup last season btw m

Cos you have the referees in your pocket

Xavi trashed you with Auba and wonnd league against u with mediocre team. So get ready for more beating.

Even am super happy as a Madrid Fan

Yet they won laliga and another silverware in the first season. Cut this guy some slack.

Pau Curbasi

Ok

yeah these guys only cover games when they're asked to, not really in the know anymore besides offering a players perspective

@@matthewm3869Pretty much it yeah xddd

They do these segments because some fans asked on social medias about it, otherwise they would have gladly ignored this little drama.

your team already payed the "help me win the league" fee for next season too? how many goals should i expect the be disallowed after they go in?

@@maximilianmitroi8545 That wasn't a goal you dumb idiot and it was proven already. Your goal should have been disallowed though because it was a foul on Kroos.

​@@maximilianmitroi8545 Did you pay for it last year? Win- we won it fairly Loss- Referee is against us. Between only one team admitted to paying the referee association president.

You want to talk fair don’t be a Madrid fan cause allot of games Madrid wen with the help of referees and also I guess ur eyes are blind to what was obvious for a goal barc should have received plus penalty we should have got and the one that Madrid shouldn’t have gotten wow just wow you as a Madrid fan should shut up

@@maximilianmitroi8545 Yeah, blame all your troubles on the refs. Don't look at your team and find out it actually sucks, that would be too much.

Reminds me of Manchester United's shift from Ferguson to Moyes. It was quite similar. Every season being a transition season until it became the standard.

Talk for yourself man

And special thanks to the referrees

Messi broke the club?

What? Not madrid,,,Var and refrri and dominate la liga next season to help win madrid😅

“All the top young players in the world”? 😂

the only thing you have done is quote stats. For example neymar scored 77 goals for brazil hence he is better the Ronaldo. I think you are the one with 0 ball knowledge. Also if you want stats Lewandowski is still under performing his xg and i dont even think it is close. He has missed easy chances on multiple occasions even today in about the 20th minute. He is slow lethargic and simply poor. And then you are gonna say oh he has about 24 g/a in all comps. You know how much goals he should have when analysed with barca's creativity this season and his xg. Maybe he should have 16 goals in probably just la liga yet he has 13. And you may say it is not that bad but it really is considering others are overperforming their xg not only in top clubs but also at clubs like aston villa and Chelsea just to name a few. Lewandowski has been bad as it relates to positions he takes up in attack like games against villareal and athletic club just to name a few. Because he chooses consistently to sit so deep in attack he causes us to play sideways and backways passes. Because of Lewandowski their is no option to put a cross in the box thus normally stiffling our chances to play good attacking football. By the way you watch football via stats i watch football via the pitch. And the only reason Lewandowski he scored 50 goals in almost two years does no make it a crazy feat. For example haaland scored 50 goals for city in just a singles season. Harry Kane has scored 32 for Bayern, Ronaldo scored 50 in a little over a year for Al Nassr. So I dont get the point about scoring 50 goals for barcelona when others have done better and he is normally just scoring against Victoria Plzen and Alaves.

On the topic of Xavi why did he give Lewandowski 90 MINUTES TODAY? Why why why the heavens? What has Lewandowski done since the start of the season; heck what has he done since last January 2023? I'll tell you what he has done miss easy chances, play poor passes, sat deep in attacking plays and have one good game versus atletico madrid. If I were the Barca manager I am starting Roque and heck and if i do start him and bring in Iniago, but incase Araujo did not get the red card I would've subbed him off at half time. There are two people who i need not be here next season and that is Lewandowski and Xavi. Even Romeu has got a better stock than Lewandowski. Another take on Xavi. You are 4-2 up on aggregate, why dont you pack the box and play 79 minutes of defensive football. Why attack and leave spaces for the 3 PSG pace merchants? Why? That is a tactical blunder from Xavi. Does not require much think just common sense would have told anybody that. Shut that box tight.