He joins the injuries, the ‘Supercopa case’ and his personal problems now that Xavi no longer considers him indispensable
Bad times for Gerard Piqué, who is still submerged in his particular volcano. Following the Super Cup scandal, his personal problems and the poor string of injuries that ended the season, the Barca defender has returned to prominence after Xavi Hernandez told him he is no longer a vital player for him. Another big stick for a footballer who is in the process of reclaiming his place in the Blaugrana plans and looking to fulfill the remaining two years of his contract, even if it comes at the cost of another pay cut.
“I will be the owner. If you have noses, bring the best central defender in the world, who will be a substitute,” Piqué told Joan Laporta after the meeting they had last week, said journalist Xavi Valls in the program Onze de Esports 3. The words of the defender were the culmination of a conversation that has been brewing for some time within the Blaugrana club. The president of the culé entity did not like the end of his own season, as he recognized before finishing the course. “I finish the season angry and disappointed with the attitude of the team,” he said. A few words that now become even more important after meeting one of the captains.
Piqué’s words to the president have their roots in an earlier conversation the central defender already had with Xavi. Carrying on with the firm idea of doing a major renovation, Tarrasa’s coach is unwilling to marry any of the ‘holy cows’, not even a player who was a starter last season when he was available and who still has a lot of weight in the locker room. Xavi informed him that he is no longer an essential player for his project and that the club is considering several options in the market to strengthen its position, a message the central defender assimilated and to which he responded by making a change with the idea of training more than never and giving up their extra-football obligations.
The scenario now unfolding in Barcelona with the footballer has many open fronts. The problem with Pique is not so much his performance, having played a total of 39 games with the Barca shirt last year, but rather his high profile. The former Manchester United could have more than €40m deferred from his previous salary cut, which he signed while Josep Maria Bartomeu was still president, a real scourge for a club that continues to subscribe to an endless economic crisis and that goes to this transfer market with the intention to further reduce their wage bill. “I’m going to help as much as possible,” the player said in this regard during the last meeting with the club, a few words in which his desire to fulfill the two remaining contract years is already clear.
Xavi’s decision comes after a fateful last part of the season for Pique. The central defender dragged discomfort into the second half of the course and the glass overflowed at the worst possible moment as his team went into the decisive piece. The 35-year-old has missed seven of his last nine league games and witnessed his team’s debacle at Camp Nou against Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League due to an adductor injury from the stands.
Gerard Pique’s problems go far beyond the playing field. Last month, the audios between Luis Rubiales and the footballer came to light, several listens agreeing benefits for Kosmos, the player’s company, of 24 million euros for acting as an intermediary and taking the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia. Arabia in 2019.” Thank you for everything and here I am for everything you need,” concluded the president of the Spanish Football Association that day. A few words that caused a stir around Piqué and for which he had to explain. “I don’t regret it, I think we did a very good job and nothing was done wrong, neither legally nor morally,” he assured.
That scandal was the penultimate mid-hurricane that Piqué is experiencing. The footballer’s extra-sports problems have also affected his sentimental life. The central defender has said goodbye to the more than ten-year relationship he had with Shakira, mother of his two children, and could have intensified his nightlife, something that Xavi would not have wanted either, a coach who already assured in his presentation that he wanted to bring back the “club rules”. Given all this, the footballer’s reaction is nothing more than to continue working and that same Tuesday he uploaded a video to social networks in which he crushed himself in the gym, a message to show that he is not ready to throw in the towel. throw
Source: La Verdad
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