Xavi Hernández feels cornered and has gotten tired. He has gone on the attack. The coach raised the tone against the Barcelona environment because, according to him, it explains unrealities. “It’s not that he has an obsession, it’s reality. I get messages as if it were a funeral, as if my father or mother had died,” he revealed, when the team continues to aspire to four titles, although in the League it is seven points behind the leader.
Rebuked by the press, Xavi even defended that the qualification for the Champions League round of 16 as first in the group should have been shined more brightly. “By the way, I’m surprised that no one congratulated me on my pass,” he reproached the journalists directly.
Protected in his speech, Xavi assures that he does not understand anything of what is happening around him. “Not to the fans, who are ten and cheering me on,” he pointed out. And he prescribed optimism and unity. “We have to be more positive, especially the culés. The media that are related to Barça cannot get off in the first corner. “These players are current League champions and they deserve respect,” he asked.
The coach admits the defeats against Madrid and Girona weigh on him, but not the one in Antwerp, and he gave the example of last season. In October we wanted to send everything to hell and then the season ended well. “Five months ago we were on a street,” he recalled.
Despite the two defeats in a row, the Barcelona coach asked for stability in the club. “A month ago you told me if I was Barça’s Ferguson. And now I’m on the street? ”He asked himself. “The club needs stability. This is what I see in other projects. And we are a winning project. Football has no memory but it must be remembered. If every time there is a pothole you go into a deep depression this is not going to start. If you lose or tie in Valencia, you also have to continue believing. And even more so in the post-Messi era and in a difficult economic situation,” he reflected.
That trust from the club and from president Joan Laporta, Xavi assures that he has it. “I never feel alone. First because I have the staff, with my brother, who are loyal. But the president has never failed me. “Everything he has told me he has fulfilled,” he explained, before insisting that his relationship with Deco “is excellent, even if it is said that it is not.”
If you don’t feel alone, the less you have considered giving up. “No no. “I don’t want to fail, especially not the club of my life,” he concluded. Something else will be in June. “In any case, when the season is over. Then you do a reset and see if it has been won or not. But I’m very well. You have to be consistent and have confidence. It’s time to believe in what we are doing. We have worked very well in the two years we have been here. What surprises me is that at the first bend people get off the boat. I see that the media is not united. Alarms always go off when everything is at stake,” he insisted.
And he left a question in the air. “We don’t learn. Last season is over and we had a remarkable season. Why can’t this be excellent? “It surprises me that we culés don’t unite at different times.”
