FC Barcelona closed the 2023-24 season without titles and with the official confirmation of a technical replacement on the bench, with the dismissal of Xavi Hernández and the arrival of Hansi Flick. The club’s decision continues to provoke opinions of all kinds. The latest was given by one of the former sporting directors the entity had in the recent past, Eric Abidal. The former French defender, now 44 years old, In an interview with Marca, he offered a new perspective on Xavi’s reconsideration with the decision he made at the beginning of 2024 to leave the culé bench, a position that later changed before it was the culé board that decided to change course a few weeks after confirming him. “Gavi, Pedri, Ronald, Lamine, you can see the difference when they play and when they don’t. It gives you a lot of possibilities for the future of the club knowing that they are almost ready for the future. I think it changed Xavi’s idea of leaving “suggested Abidal when giving his opinion on Xavi’s reconsideration of his continuation.
For Abidal, Xavi “as a coach, he did a great jobit wasn’t easy, he was ‘lucky’ when he didn’t want to call it luck to have one great generation of young players to make a difference”, he emphasized. In relation to the change of opinion of the board regarding the owner of the court, “Today the club has made another decision that is different from you, now only the future will tell us if it was a good decision or a bad one.”said Abidal.
However, the difficult context invites us to act more cautiously. “You have to trust the people who are there even if the financial situation is not what it used to be, but I think that difficult situations make you make better decisions, with more caution. I think I hope they understand it and I hope they do it well,” he said. . Of course, he slipped that “there are clubs where there are few people around the table and many people to make decisions.” “Few people are better, more practical,” he recommends.
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Source: La Verdad
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