Topic: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2020/21 - page 1408. (Read 555445 times)

Actually, I have yet to read any news saying that Guardiola will return to Barcelona. Klopp confirmed he will no longer be associated with Liverpool after the 2023/24 season. It was truly shocking news. If Guardiola returns to Barcelona, it will be news that will shock world football. I believe that Guardiola will extend his contract with the Manchester team. I don't find any reason for Guardiola to leave his favorite students behind to go to Barcelona.

Will the dream of winning 4 championships continue with Guardiola and his students this season? He and his students will continue to dominate Europe.

Barcelona's loss to Villarreal revealed its underlying difficulties. The goalkeeper has struggled and the defense is in disarray. It's not just one terrible day; it's happening often and costing us. Xavi's resignation is surprising but expected. Great player for the club, but managing is different. His apology and resignation demonstrate responsibility and game knowledge. It's sad that a legend like him must go under these conditions. Management must assess and change the team's plan now more than ever

It was the worst result they could ever get against a team like Villarreal. I don't know how Villarreal could score five goals against Barcelona and how Barcelona could let this team to have this performance but the fact about Villarreal and Barcelona is about the bad performance of Xavi and his palers.
Also, after this match, Xavi said he is not going to keep working in Barcelona anymore.

This performance has been very bad from Barcelona. I think it is actually not a bad decision for Xavi to leave Barcelona. Because if he stays in Barcelona, they might have a very bad result in this season and everything will be blamed on him. Of course, he is not the one to blame. At least not the only one. The authorities of Barcelona are irresponsible and Barcelona as a club has been wasting money. And this is the result they are getting for that. A club cannot survive in the long run if they cannot even register the players that they are trying to acquire.

Look, every team goes through difficult times, but not every manager can survive it like Arteta did at Arsenal when they were bottom of the table.

Barcelona's position is not as bad as it may seem, although it is obvious that they will not become champions this year, but they can be in the top 4, and this is a completely satisfactory result. In addition, no one fired Xavi, it was his initiative, but why this happened is another question.

He is a dedicated coach, and I think he is capable of more, but if he decided to leave, then it is his choice.

In general, of course everything points to a mistake made by Xavi because he was not ready to handle the problem after being left absent by Ter Stegen. The results continue without end and perhaps the fans and management have started to urge him to leave if he still gets the same results. Xavi was aware that his position was increasingly insecure with this bad defeat, so he finally realized himself and decided to leave after the season ended.

Certainly last season was the best of his journey as Barcelona coach and if the defense is not strong there is no way they can win La Liga and Real Madrid is very far away from them on points. Maybe the decline in the performance of their defensive players also has quite an impact on the results obtained by Barcelona because we often see that their defensive players often make blunders which result in goals for the opposing team.

Cause he already said that his journey with City is almost over, if it will not be this year it will be the next one.

Were he can go? Another Premier League club? Barca or Arabs?

I can't see other options.

Im getting an update from goal regarding the potential coach to replace xavi's position in barcelona. Is it zerbi?


https://www.goal.com/en/news/live/transfer-news-and-rumours-live/blt1ccfda38eda06d5a

If it's true then it will not be a news for barcelona. People have praised him at the early season when brighton was still able performing very consistent in the any of its game. Time flies and the performance of zerbi in brighton has been declining a lot. This is also triggering so many speculation to appear.
Why doesn't barcelona try to take someone like michel from girona instead of him? I hope this is just a rumor but barcelona didn't really need someone like him. Zerbi needs to get more experience in the english premier league.

There will be some hot topics to be talked by anyone. 1. klopp 2. xavi

Since these guys were announcing to step down as coaches on their club and it was also triggering so many public speakers to speculate which a good coach that can be signed by barcelona. This is also helping the club so much. I would prefer barcelona to wait till the end of season to search for the good coach with cheap fees.
Zerbi is not a good choice to replace xavi and i think that barcelona needs someone like michel. Girona's president has been also giving permission for any club to get michel as a new coach. this guy will much more suitable for the club.

Im saying big NO for zerbi but i sai

It's really ironic what's happening to Barcelona at the moment, but in the end it was the right decision for Xavi to resign, so far I really believe that Xavi will not be fired by Barcelona because Xavi has given his best to Barcelona, ​​while in my opinion the decision to resign is a a form of surrender from Xavi who has indeed tried his best, currently Barcelona is in a crisis which will probably continue for a long time if financial problems continue to befall them, as a former Barcelona player and coach, of course Xavi will not be able to bring Barcelona back to its former glory when he did not get the financial support needed from Barcelona management, I personally take my hat off to Xavi even though he failed but he has tried hard enough and as a culer he was willing to leave a big salary in the Arab League and instead took a big responsibility when he saw Barcelona was down at that time, as a culer he had tried his maximum and of course the club and Barcelona fans admit this but it may be Barcelona's destiny which now has to change from a great team to a mediocre team.

People will always say they were lucky when a mid-table team was able to beat a top team, even though it all happened because they managed to find a gap and the coach knew what to do in that match. Barcelona's defeat to Villareal was a form of weakness in defense because they were unable to withstand the attack that Villareal's players were trying to build. If you look at the match as it progressed, there should have been many advantages that could have made Barcelona win the match, but instead Villarreal managed to punish Barcelona with a fairly convincing victory.

Xavi is aware that without good financial support, recruiting the players he wants will be much more difficult, so making the decision to resign from the coaching chair at the end of the season is the right choice. Because if he stays and Barcelona sinks further to the bottom of the standings so then his career will end and no club will offer him as coach in the future.

Yes, exactly, I completely forgot about it, but the essence does not change - even if Barcelona had lost to Villarreal in an away game with such a score, the questions would remain the same.
Xavi said what was clear (including from leaks) before: he is leaving Barcelona in the summer. Yesterday he was forced to report this because the series of defeats dragged on and any coach, even if the club has the most loyal attitude towards him, must take responsibility. It’s probably a pity that everything ends this way, but Xavi won two titles with Barcelona and I think he will find himself in the future in his coaching career.

The situation is ambiguous. On the one hand, it is clear that such a club as Barcelona will always have big ambitions, but the opportunities are now very modest. Last season Ter Stegen and Real's slump helped a lot, but now it's gone. Although transfers Barcelona held a decent level, but they were few, and the pupils dropped out or injured quite often, so that the problems with the composition of Xavi had, but on the other hand in the defense is really going on unknowable, there is no stable game, in the past for some reason kicked out Obameyang, although he scored and left Lewandowski, who stopped scoring. Alba, Busquets and Dembele have left, but they have not found quality replacements for them.

In general, Xavi was able to bring Barcelona to a decent level and to some extent coped with the crisis that was before his arrival, but to bring Barcelona to a new level you need other money for transfers and now a new coach, since Xavi has not succeeded to the end.

Lewandowski is an important world star, but his performance in Barcelona was much weaker than his performance in Bayern Munich because La Liga is a more difficult league than the Bundesliga. They could score easy goals in the Bundesliga, but La Liga is not such a league. Since Barcelona's economic situation was bad, they had to turn to older players instead of players like Osimhen. We can say that this was a reason that reduced success.

Barca deserve to lose because of several factors. As usual every match day seems like a new disaster for Barcelona. Villareal played with more intensity, and Barcelona did try their best, but it wasn't good enough. Their goalkeeper had a really bad day today, making not even a single save for a shot on target from Villarreal's side. Villarreal seems like a team that every LaLiga team is using to collect free 3 points from Barca.

If Xavi doesn't make his way out himself at this stage, otherwise, Barca management will kick him out. Fortunately, Xavi recognizes that he can't manage as Barcelona's coach anymore.

Xavi revived Barcelona but he cannot revive some players who simply lost desire to play football for performance and trophies. That's why, I do consider to let players over 32 to go on summer and don't make any transfers like this because Barcelona has massive youth talents withing squad and I don't think "old" players can bring something new. Per example , let's look at Lewa this year , does it looks like a world class striker anymore ? For me , he lost his touch around 2 years ago and since then we have glimpse of old Lewa from time to time.

Xavi took Barcelona, ​​which was in a bad situation, and brought it to a good level. He kept it alive in the championship. I think he did his job very well. He tried to get maximum efficiency with the staff he had. Even though things are not going well this year, he will still do his best until the end of this year. I wish the opportunities given to him were as wide as the opportunities given to Real Madrid. In that case, I'm sure Xavi could form a very good squad.

Actually, Xavi has done something for Barcelona, but with the players he has, he can't do anything and the situation is very difficult. If Xavi is demanded more by Barcelona officials, then Xavi could bring Barcelona back to their glory situation, but what can you do about the players? Those who don't have the mentality of champions find it very difficult to form players easily. Several times they wasted points which they threw away in several important matches, but even though there were many problems in the Barcelona squad they were still able to survive in the European Zone, if you only look at their last five matches and only one defeat experienced by Barcelona, the rest they consistently won 3 important match..

Barcelona somehow played very worse than they did in last season but they can not blame it on Ter Stegen's injury and absence in their squad. A whole club strength should never be on shoulders of a single person.

Assume the actual main reason is from Ter Stegen, it means Barcelona did something seriously wrong in their development as they have no alternative plan without Ter Stegen.

Barcelona in the past season had very strong defense and we already saw it months ago that in this season, in like first 10 matches, they even got nearly conceded goals like what they got in a whole past season. It signaled something really bad in their squad but months later, Xavi failed to fix it and bad results they got recently includes those matches with big opponents, are expected to happen with such terrible defense.

I think so too, Xavi is a good coach who has proven his quality when he first managed the Barcelona team, but currently Barcelona has very few players so it is very difficult for Xavi to improve the performance of the Barcelona team.

The defeat against Villarreal at home was the fault of the Barcelona team's defenders, there were only a few minutes left before the match ended but the Barcelona team's concentration was broken so they had to concede 3 goals, I was really surprised by what happened in this match, it happened so quickly .

Now Xavi has made a statement that at the end of the season he will leave the Barcelona team, I think this is a big loss for the Barcelona team, with the team's financial crisis of course it is increasingly difficult for them to recover.

 
Many people are blaming Xavi for Barcelona's poor performance, but in all honesty, I don't think the coach is at fault because the players are the ones on the field and Barcelona didn't have any other players besides the one Xavi is using to pay for games. So why is everyone blaming the coach when many people don't understand football? In Barcelona's match against Villarreal yesterday, Xavi actually made a good formation and a good substitution that would have won the game, but the players' performance are so bad.

When Villarreal scores two goals, Barcelona leads 3-2. However, before the game is over, Villarreal scores three more goals to win 5-3. The reason for this is entirely the players' fault; the fourth goal Villarreal scores comes from a defensive play by Barcelona player. How can they be playing inside the box when they need to win a match? It's great to hear that Xavi wants to leave the team. We'll see how Barcelona manages to get a good coach, but even if they do, their performance will still be subpar because they didn't sell sell players and didn't sign any new ones.