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This is definitely old news no need to go back extra to search again, all this candidates where the ones lined up to replace Xavi when he himself announced that he was going to go away from the club. The man who was mostly tipped to replace him was the then De Zerbi and also Hansi Flick; who Barcelona do not held in high regards like that due to playing pattern of high intensity game and Barcelona still prefers the tiki taka pattern. They have analyzed how the market is and decided not to part ways with Xavi again and he will remain next season as their manager.


This was were most people were getting it wrong but Chelsea weren’t a low scoring team but they conceded lots of goals which affected their goal difference. They actually scored 77 goals with only four clubs Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Newcastle the only ones to out score them this season but the number of goals conceded were much also which was 63, higher than that of even Manchester United this season. So they didn’t score less but were just not converting their chances more

Since Pep Guardiola has already achieved a lot in his coaching career they should have given it to either Mikel Arteta or Unai Emery because the two coaches made sure their teams remained in a comfortable position in the league table till the end though Unai Emery did a great job for Aston Villa by qualifying them for champions league next season since 1983 so is a very huge achievement for the club and their fans because they will be having a new experience in the European competition next season. Definitely Unai Emery would have been awarded the manager of the season but since it is done by voting and with how Pep Guardiola has made lots of impact for Manchester City, it wouldn't have been easy to vote any other person if not him.

Inasmuch as I wouldn't want to judge the management for their decision, common sense will easily reveal that changing three coaches within two years is a bad precedence and suggest that the management did not do proper scrutiny before selecting. Chelsea struggled so much at the beginning of the season and into the middle until Pochettino revived the team and put them in winning ways. Sacking him will definitely affect the players so much because they were already finding their feet and blending so well in line with the coach's strategy.

I have known Chelsea as a low goal scoring team but I was surprised to see Chelsea transition into a goal scoring machine. For the longest period second part of this season I was confidently playing Chelsea 3+ and they have been delivering for me.

The suitors for Alexander Sørloth, who has had a great season this year, are becoming clear. Atletico Madrid have allocated a serious budget for striker transfers and Sørloth is their first target. With a release clause of 38 million Euro, Atletico Madrid can finish this transfer easily. It has been leaked that they will try to reduce the price to 30-35 million. This price is nothing for Sørloth. He is top goal scorer in La Liga this year. He proved that he is a great striker. If he goes to Atletico, he will be successful there as well.

Like the update conveyed by Fabrizio, a decision regarding Xavi future will be made in the near future. So at this time there is no certainty that Xavi will leave or stay with Baecelona, ​​but to maintain the opportunity to recruit a coach quickly, Barcelona management is starting to approach several names of coaches for options to replace Xavi if Xavi decides to leave. As you mentioned, Hansi Flick is the frontrunner to coach Barcelona if Xavi leaves because Deco has already had talks with Hansi.

Looking at Hansi Flick career, of course he is a coach full of experience who has brought prestigious titles to Bayern Munich when he coached Bayern Munich. Barcelona really needs certainty regarding Xavi decision in the near future because they need to move quickly to be able to recruit players after completing a new agreement with Xavi. Barcelona in the season of course their performance is not too bad but they are still on the right track to rebuild their best strength for next season. Xavi is also able to bring change to Barcelona progress and the fans' hopes ask Xavi to stay and sign a new contract with Barcelona.

I wouldn't wish that on Mourinho, even going to Saudi league would have been better than going to Chelsea, because at Chelsea they have zero clue how managers take time to establish their system and build a squad based on that, they expect managers to have good results even on the first season.

There is really nothing that we can do to make this work and we should consider what we can do with time, and Mourinho would not be given that much time. He needs to just go to some smaller club for once, like not even considered at top half type of club, and then consider how we could do better, that is a lot better because it would give him some time and he can turn that club into something much better because he would be given some time.

Really, I haven't seen such update about Xavi Hernandez leaving the club Barcelona at the end of the season. Can you share a link to this? Was this confirmed by Fabrizio Romano?
Didn't they recently worked things out? Deco the club director and some directors within the club wanted and had recent agreement for him to stay next season, I don't know where this one comes up again.
I know nothing about his relationship with them club president but he wasn't backed when he should have been backed. Most of these reporters spread dirty news.

Really, I'll go confirm this new from Fabrizio Romano on YouTube and X. Hansi Flick is tactically sound, I will be rooting for him if he sits top of those names mentioned to replace Xavi Hernandez.

Ederson was transfered from Benfica on 2017 and at that time Manchester City have to pay with expensive price to gets him but Ederson performance never dissapointing and very consistent so that's why since he moved from Benfica to Manchester City Guardiola always be trust him as main goalkeeper of Manchester City and indeed Ederson have already to achieve almost every trophies with this team so he was thinking to leave Manchester City because Ederson want to look for new challenge and currently Ederson is 30 years old and i think he is not too old so with his performance i think Ederson still decent to playing at Europa but indeed some of clubs from Saudi Arabia has putting him into their radar and probably after summer transfer window opened they will make a bid and for Manchester City they don't mind if Ederson want to moved from this team as long as the offers is very decent to be considered and if this rumour happened i think it's not a big deal for Manchester City because i am sure they can found the replacement of him

We don't know if sacking Pochettino is a good idea or bad idea. It depends on the result of the next season when the new coach is managing Chelsea. If it is worse than Pochettino, sacking Pochettino now is the wrong decision.

Well, I'm a bit surprised with this news. I see Chelsea got great performance, they won all the matches recently. We must admit that Chelsea became a solid team in the few last matches of this season. I think it is the sign that Pochettino will be safe as a Chelsea manager. But it is wrong, Chelsea sacked him. Even Chelsea finished in a better position this season.

I think it is not easy to bring back Chelsea to top 4. Just take a look Man United! The team even can't return to the top 6. It is not easy to rebuild a team like Chelsea and Man United. Chelsea management should understand that Pochettino did not a very bad job this season. Most of Chelsea players are new players, it makes sense if they need time to adapt with the new team and coach. Lately, they showed that they already adapt well! They showed a good progress by winning all the latest matches. IMO, Pochettino deserves to get another chance.

However, Chelsea already sacked him. Now, who will be the next coach?

Yep, I heard a rumor Chelsea is interested to sign Kompany. TBH, I don't think Kompany is better than Pochettino. Kompany has lack of experience and he doesn't really know Chelsea. Kompany was a player of Man City, not sure if he is capable to handle Chelsea players. If Chelsea really wants to finish in a better position, it is not enough by signing Kompany. Why don't plan of hiring a more experienced coach?  

If I had to choose based on my personal opinion, it looks like Barcelona needs a new coach who is more competent to handle Barcelona. I know, Xavi was able to bring Barcelona this far with very limited financial conditions.  However, as a Barcelona supporter, I am not satisfied with Xavi's performance, especially this season. Apart from the number of injured players who have been in the treatment room one after another, some of the systems he implemented were not ideal for me. one of them, the decline in the performance of Barcelona's back line. It is possible that if Barcelona is financially healthy, Xavi can be given the freedom to bring in the players he wants. Thus, at least Barcelona will be able to compete much more competitively. that's why, even though I don't really like the system that Xavi implements. but still, I really appreciate it.

To be honest, I haven't tried to track any developments regarding the coach and player rumors for this thread. Apart from that, the news that Flick was linked just disappeared. For current developments, I have not updated. So, please understand if I don't have much information. Regarding as you said, whether Xavi will be fired for his statement, Xavi should remain consistent in following what he said to end this season in charge of Barcelona. However, somehow we'll see how it develops. As for the names of trainers mentioned in this post, Flick is the most ideal for me. Anyway, this is just my personal point of view as well as a Barcelona supporter.

Indeed, 34 years old is too early to retire from football, even Real Madrid still want to keep him at the club because he is very smart when playing ball with strategy and he always helps Vinicius Junior to create opportunities even if Real Madrid wants to sell him he is still accepted at the Arab club Saudi Arabia accommodates older players from elite clubs. I think Saudi Arabia is also interested in recruiting Toni Kroos if he is interested in going there. We see that many older players are still staying at the club. Lewandowski is 35 years old but he is still staying at Barcelona. Ronaldo is 39 years old. still playing in the Saudi League and has not decided to retire because his love for football makes him reluctant to retire.

After I read a lot of opinions of others here who said about Toni Kroos and it turns out that it has become the right decision for him to retire and run his own business.
We never know what will happen to his business in the future but we must accept the fact that Toni Kroos is a reliable and famous soccer player who always has a very wise decision.
If later the business goes bankrupt, it will not be possible because we don't know how much money he has made so far to continue to run his business without having to go bankrupt.
We cannot compare Toni Kroos with other star players because in the level of popularity it is far different.

It's never an easy job for managers who come to Chelsea. We can criticize and say that they could not bring Chelsea to a good place, but it is really very difficult to bring Chelsea to a good place in the league. The high level of competition in the league causes some teams to be unable to keep up with this competition. Chelsea is one of these teams.

Constantly changing coaches means that a new era begins in the team each time. Time must pass for the team and the coach to be compatible, and a quality squad must be given in order for the coach to achieve what he wants.

Despite being tired of Chelsea's traditional and inpatient way of firing their managers too early, but I'm in agreement with the club's sacking of Mauricio Pochettino, because I see Pochettino as a coach who had no plan of taking Chelsea football team to nowhere, he lacked a wining strategy because it was obvious seeing Chelsea concede goals in almost all their games, and where Chelsea under his watch had no defensive mechanism, it was worst ever weakest witnessed Chelsea defensive line over a decade plus if not more than.

success that Guardiola achieved during his tenure as Man City coach was initially doubted by fans but Guardiola managed to prove that he was successful in delivering the first EPL title when Man City managed to lead the EPL at the end of the season several years ago and after everyone studied what made Guardiola so great success with Man City and the reason is quite easy, if Guardiola has very good principles and strategic approaches with the players.
this approach is like generating teamwork to build strong performance and we can all see how Guardiola unites new players with old players who can quickly create chemistry that can help the team continue to be the strongest team in the EPL.
since Haaland arrival, Guardiola has become increasingly confident that Man City can become a team that will dominate the EPL and all the intelligent coach's dreams have come true this season.

It is very likely that if Guardiola can continue to help Man City dominate the EPL in the next few seasons, it looks like he will continue to be retained with Man City with the aim of continuing to make new history that can improve Man City reputation in the future.

It is very difficult to recover Barcelona at this stage. There will be players who will leave the team, but if Flick has expressed this desire, he has probably made a plan of his own. For Flick, Barça will be like a duel. Because there are differences between teams. While Bayern has very good facilities and players, Barça currently looks like a team struggling with financial difficulties. It is more difficult to be successful with Barça than with other teams. Xavi actually had good success, but I think he will now embark on a new adventure.

Laporta seems to be getting hot with Xavi words so he closes his eyes and ears to all the achievements Xavi can give so far to Barcelona, Xavi words that are considered controversial for Laporta certainly make Laporta want to fire Xavi without caring about the effects that Barcelona might get later, seeing what Xavi said that we can indeed say is a fact of course Laporta should respond wisely and even in the match Barcelona against Rayo Vallecano a few days ago instead Barcelona fans continued to shout their support for Xavi with the words Xavi Yes, Laporta No, and it indicates if the fans fully support Xavi with his statement.

Xavi came to Barcelona with his love for the club after he got all the luxuries as a club coach in Qatar, the first season he was able to win the championship trophy even without an adequate squad and this season he stated he wanted to step down from his position, but after Barcelona had difficulty getting a new coach and with various considerations finally Xavi chose to stay at Barcelona,  But now he will be sacked just because of his criticism of Barcelona finances, Isn't that a pretty stupid thing to do by Barcelona later if it is true that they sacked Xavi?
Flick, Tuchel and even Pochettino are experienced and accomplished coaches, but whether they would love and build Barcelona without good financial support, of course not in my opinion, I think there is no coach who loves Barcelona more than Xavi and even Xavi is willing to get out of his safety zone in Qatar and also not taking the rest of his salary this season just for the sake of seeing Barcelona bounce back, will Tuchel, Flick and Pochettino do as Xavi did? Of course not..!!

People that are saying they are surprised by Pochettino quick exit from the club are the ones even surprising me because if Chelsea club happen to be there own club, I'm not sure if they are going to allow him stay after this poor season. The beginning was too poor, middle was as if they weren't even in the league and the end was fair but the over all performance was below average, let's not sugarcoat the conference Europa League, they can actually do better.

There are many people that can handle the team better and more effectively but I don't know why they settle for him but if it's because of the budget, the have gotten result for what they settle before the season but this time, they better take their time.


There was a time it became normal, the fans accepted their faith as a losers until towards the end when things start to get better. They played match for more than a 5 weeks without any win, just draw and losses and that was tiring and exhausting to see one of the best club in the England to become this worst than Tottenham that hardly get to the top of the table.

Source: https://www.101greatgoals.com/news/next-chelsea-manager-kieran-mckenna-thomas-frank-thomas-tuchel/

At least it is good to see that Chelsea are actually looking for a coach and not keeping the current coach any longer.
Yes towards the end they were able to perform really well. Maybe better than they have performed the whole season. But that does not mean in the next season they are not going to suffer. So the decision that they have taken is very good in my opinion. And it looks like they are actually looking for a coach who will be able to handle pressure and also handle such a big squad like Chelsea as well. That is something we have seen many coaches fail to do in recent times. I have also heard that Chelsea is not going back to the previous coaches that they have brought in recently. I am talking about Jose Marino, Conte, and Tuchel.

How is the fans wishing to have Tuchel back bullshit? He was the fan's favorite and won them the last major titles, stood by the club during sanctions and never left them despite the club struggling to pay for expenses as of that period. He had good offers but still stuck with Chelsea throughout the hard period and got sacked the wrong way.

If the fans want him back I don't see anyone problem with it, he's better than the ones shortlisted at the moment.

How would it be Pochetino's decision? I look at them and wonder whats them motive for the new season. Mauricio Pochetino was already beginning to settle down well in the squad and the players backing him up as well. It can't be Pochetino's choice truthfully. I don't know too much about this club of late, i haven't followed them up closey. The thing right now is to get a good replacement who can compete with the top clubs

Mauricio Pochetino did well after his slow start, spending weeks below tenth position on the Premier League Table for a very long period of time. Finally it gladdens me to see that he raised them up again with the help of these hardworking players who helped fought for him as well.
We will see the plans they have for the new season. But making moves for Vincent Kompany makes zero sense to me. As for the case of Erik Ten Hag, he's yet to make no decision neither had the management of Manchester United said shit. Rumours if him moving to Chelsea are not valid.