If I understand his statements correctly, he is not going to extend his initial contract, but he revoked his decision to terminate the contract early. So in concrete terms he will stay until 2025 and if you think about it, an extension wouldn't have made any sense for any of the parties involved. Xavi is going for that year, I guess he sees potential in the team especially with the two younger guys who are playing as if they were part of the team for half a decade by now. And at the end of the next season he is in the position to choose whatever he wants. He might get offers from other clubs and at the same time, if he plays a successful season, he can ask for a better contract with Barcelona. But still I think it is like kindergarten to announce you are going to step down because you freak out at a press conference (he also said that there is no going back from that decision) and now everyone is friends again.
From what I have heard from various news and rumours, Xavi is no longer interested in extending his contract with Barcelona. And so far this seems to be the most convincing.
Xavi became Barcelona's coach at a time when the team was in dire straits. Koeman turned this team into rubble. Barcelona had to fight hard to win even against weaker teams. After Xavi became the coach, Barcelona's performance became much more stable and Barcelona also won the La Liga title. Barcelona had a fantastic performance last season. But this season the condition of the team is not good. Their performance is erratic.
Barcelona must now rebuild the team. This squad is neither strong nor experienced enough. Barcelona need a more experienced coach as well as bigger funds to strengthen the squad.
Couldn't agree more, Koeman was a huge mistake and I never liked him in any regard whatsoever. I didn't like his coaching, I didn't like his interviews and I didn't like his attitude altogether. He made weird player choices and he never really fully connected with the team, at least that was my perception. But anyway, part of the truth is that the team fell apart and it wasn't possible for them to replace all these stars that worked so well hand in hand. When you lose Iniesta, Xavi, Neymar, Messi, Suarez, and many others that were an integral part of this amazing team when they were in their prime, I think any coach taking over would have an incredibly hard time to be as successful as before. Therefore, Xavi was doing ok, but I don't consider him one of the best coaches despite winning La Liga.
First of all, this shouldn't be happening in the first place, xavi shouldn't be leaving Barcelona now because he is the man best fit for the job, ok let look at how Barcelona have performed in the past two seasons under his leadership as the manager, they are not that bad the way the media made it looks like, considering the fact that most of the players bought are not what he as a coach really wanted, but since they were free transfer, he just have to accept it, because that's what the club can afford, they actually can't go for the kind of players he wanted due to lack of funds.
But if truly he is leaving the club, I think their are some good coaches out of jobs now that can coach this Barcelona team, someone like hamsick flick, Thomas tuchel at the end of this season, but where the major problem will be, is will they going to accept a low quality players that mostly comes with free transfer? Or will they accept the financial troubles Barcelona are going through, and decide to work with it? But to be honest, it's not a good news for Barcelona if xavi leave at the end of the season.
