Xavi announced that he will not continue from June 30

Xavi Hernandez has decided not to continue beyond June 30, despite having a contract until 2025. This is what the coach said in his post-match press conference after meeting with the president, Joan Laporta. The club has closed ranks around him and according to the coach it has been agreed that he will continue until the end of the season and then the Terrassa man will leave.

This is the coach’s speech: “Before you ask me relevant questions, I want to announce that as of June 30, I will no longer continue as coach of Barça. We have discussed this with Laporta And in the area of ​​sports and as a culé, I think the club needs a change of dynamics. As a culé, thinking about the club and the players, I think they will free themselves and be more calm. I think as a club man, I think the best thing is to leave on June 30. That said, I will give my best in the remaining four months, I think we can have a good season and I hope the dynamic changes. “It is a situation that requires common sense and I have decided that on June 30 I will not continue as coach of Barça.”

Xavi He elaborated on his decision: “This decision de-escalates the general situation. I feel the most responsible, I think things have worked very well, very good work has been done but I think our project should be until June 30. I think It will free to the players and will ease the general situation of the club. I made the decision a few days ago and in some ways I freed myself. What I see is that I am not freeing the situation of the players and the board, and I do not want to be an obstacle in the club, I always want a solution, I don’t want to be a problem. I was a solution two years and three months ago but now, my heart thinks and thinks about the club, for which I want the best, the best thing is that I leave it on June 30. Thank the president for the trust. We have a president who is the host, both he and Rafa (Juste)number Alejandro (Echevarría) They are very valid and I think it defuses the situation.

He revealed that “I have explained it to the president now, we have been meeting in a very human conversation, I love the president very much, both him and Rafa, Alejandro, Deco… Their confidence so far is full but it’s time, the economic situations don’t move me, I’m touched by the heart and I believe this is the best situation for the club. I don’t want to be a problem. We played an absolutely miserable game and it was a turning point for the players, who didn’t deserve it. It was a blow to see how they won a game that you had come back from behind, I don’t remember a game as cruel as today in my career. “We need a change of course for the good of the club and this will de-escalate the situation around Barcelona fans.”

He made sure that he thought about everything: “Usually I’m this calm, almost no imputs make me nervous. Now, the match situation, yes. I think I’m doing the best for everyone and selfishly for my myself as well. I thought about the club, the president, the decoration, but especially to the players, who do not deserve it. I think it’s the best, talking to my wife, my brother, the staff, I think it’s the best. I don’t want to be a problem. The good solution is for him to stop being the coach on June 30. I said yesterday that I’ve been there for two and a half years, I said it’s time to review the job. It’s time to change the dynamic and announce that on June 30 I will no longer be continuing.”

He clarified that “I have energy, it is not a matter of energy, it is a matter of change of course, I will even give more this four months. I think we can have a good season, I think we can fight. for in the League 10 points away. Now I’m less for you to kill. After today’s game, in charge of another year, you’ll kill for me more. In the first year they told me that I’m not good as a coach, but that’s not it. It’s the feeling that the club is going to improve with our departure. on June 30.”

He insisted that “I have the feeling that I am doing the right thing, if that means feeling liberated, too. I have the feeling of acting with common sense. The dynamic is very negative and many times I have no explanation. Today is a 5-2 match and you lose 3-5, you have to change the dynamic and the people are here for it. The club is far above people, I do it this way because I’m a culé, and that’s what I told the president , he was half-excited but “he understood it. I think it is necessary to de-escalate the situation.”

He took advantage of a journalist’s memory of last season’s Spanish League and Super Cup titles to show that his decision is already having an effect: “We have changed the dynamic because it is the first time you remember that we won the Super Cup and the League. I need to remember this and now you have reminded me of the question. Until now I have to remember. I have no doubt that the club needs a change of dynamic. That’s what I said Nuria, to Oscar and to the staff, to Ed too. “It’s the best decision I’ve ever made.”

“This will help us”

“We will compete in the League and the Champions League”

He assured that he will leave on June 30 even if Barça wins the Champions League: “The decision is irreversible. Yes. I am very rational, very rational, I have been thinking about it for a long time and we need dynamic change. I hope we win the Champions League, we will fight.” and compete. I am very optimistic. And we can compete for the League, it is very difficult, but this is going to help us.”

He revealed that “I did not tell the players, tomorrow I will talk to them, today I saw them very broken, this is one of the reasons for this change in dynamics, they do not deserve the situation we are going through. There is a very good human quality, a very good team and what is happening often has no explanation. We have to be brave just as we were when we came, and not cling to the position and the contract. It is a situation that has to be decided like this. If by winning there would have been announced? If we won 3-2, maybe I won’t say it now, but maybe next week, it was about finding the moment, I had decided on it for a long time.

He confessed on a personal level that “the feeling of being a Barça coach is not pleasant, it is cruel, you feel that they do not respect you many times, that your work is not appreciated and it is a familiar -terrible drain on mental health, mood, me. ‘ma very positive guy but the energy is going down to the point that you say there is no sense to continue. And well, I have decided this for a long time and this is a situation that is already affecting the club. And then I have to decide that I will leave on the 30th of June, without further ado.”

“It’s happened to all the coaches that have come through. We have to change the dynamic. It’s impossible Ferguson of Barça, very difficult. We need to change directions and dynamics and it’s time. Unequal? I don’t know, I move from the heart and when nothing makes sense it’s time to act and make decisions,” he insisted.

He defended that “I think there is no doubt that I have been a man of the club, I have put the club before myself, I have given everything and I will continue this for four months so that the fans feel proud. footballer I am satisfied, we have “We have created a fantastic group of people and we will continue until June 30. I know I will leave, I am even more excited about the Champions League. I will give everything in 4 months, and I will continue to go to the Camp Nou with my wife and my children, I will continue to be a culé.” .

And he ended talking about his future: “I don’t know what the future holds for me because this position makes it easier for me to spend less time with my family, they suffer from it and I can’t be so selfish my whole career. I’m going to go home for a while and rest, so I have to be with my kids.”