'Lets NAME NAMES!' Which Barcelona players turned on Xavi? | ESPN FC

I don't get all this anger towards the players when it's pretty clear the squad building isn't consistent and Xavi himself didn't really prove to be some sort of genius. He won a league where every other team were begging them to go through and with playing conservative football half of the season and now they're pretty much exposed. They treat Xavi in this show as if he's somehow too good for the club. It's his first ever top flight job, c'mon

Cancelo plays all games, he got hurt before the Super Copa. It's probably other internal factors, like Deco and high expectations. Xavi asked for a high level DM and pure winger, Im not excusing him, he's also at fault on some of the decisions but he wasn't given depth to compete, we had let some crucial players leave at the start of the year too.

Xavi just realised, a doubt which I'm sure he already had when he first joined as coach, was the stone cold truth and that is there was nothing he could do to fix it.

I don't believe its the dressing room or the media although both can be annoying and do add pressure but if there are no realistic solution going forward especially with financial mess FC Barcelona are in then its going to become repetitive and you're going to be stuck.

Unless FC Barcelona turn things around in a quick and in a hurry it will be the same for any manager. IDK if this can be done but the current situation FC Barcelona are in calls for an immediate sale of the club by competent and realistic owners similar to Man City owners.

The tiktok dancer who groans and complains all the time is to blame

Its nothing compare to valverde and koeman

Barca are a beggar that have no choice....
Xavi sacrificed alot to stay this long, and is letting go of more to leave (12m) so I just pity Barca cos they have lots of useless players on a wage they don't deserve unfortunately,

These mfkrs spent.weeks talking about xavi to get fired and now they're discussing which players turned on.xavi ? What BS is this

I am a Real fan 😊 and I think it's rubbish to have players who just arrived at Barcelona the last 2-3 years complain over a manager. That would be like Camavinga or Bellingham whining about Zidane if he was still in charge. Xavi is a Barca man, he's barely been there 2 seasons. Give him time or find another club. Lewandowski's performances have nothing to do with Xavvi.

Is Marcotti for real? Trying to guess “who turned” so he can badmouth them on camera?? This is pathetic

I seriously am pissed af at Lewandowski, Kounde and De jong. Lewa thinks he's Kane and tries to be him. De jong doesnt put enough effort and doesnt know how to defend. Kounde thinks he is big enough of a player to warrant a position to Xavi. Christensen is naive af and always seems to be tired. Balde doesnt know anything other than running with the ball. And Xavi employs his brother as an assistant. Its a fcking mess. Only Gavi and Yamal can keep their heads up(maybe gundo). And pedri needs to sort his injury problems

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Who turned on Xavi? Well, the fans. You hear the whistles around the stadium.

But I don’t blame the fans. Even last year when he won the league title, the team didn’t look resilient. They lost in UCL and Europa team at any significant challenge.

This season, they still aren’t playing well and we don’t have the results either.

It is really hard watching Barca every week. The players are good, but they have been taught to be fearful. So many times, a forward makes a good first time pass and players just pass backwards or sideways. Because when they try a forward pass and it doesn’t work out, Xavi is on the sidelines complaining. He gets so annoyed when a player makes a small mistake. How does that encourage players? He’s that sort of coach that says “why can’t you be as good as me”. He was a great uniting force as a player but not as a coach.

This week, Klopp is leaving Liverpool, his players love him like a father. Hardly anyone loves Xavi.

Barcelona managers is always under pressure
But lets start with lewa n kounde

One of the jobs of a coach is to inspire the players to do their best. Not just try and enforce their ideologies on the players. Xavi has lost a lot of fan support too.

Oh dear arguments 😔 guys please give us a break we've got at least 5 more months of this type of unhelpful speculation 😕

No1 meaningful in lockeroom wants Xavi to leave. Xavi just isnt having fun and doesnt want to hurt his legacy bc the players cant finish, and this year the top world backline cant defend.

Lewandovski and Gündoğan, you know really winners wanted more from Brokelona and they couldn’t deliver it.

In my opinion what he did to phenomenal players like lewa and kounde is the reason of his sack and he was , they just gave him the courtesy of leaving on his own not to forget that they went to Qatar and begged him to sign for the project , this Man is a master midfielder and thats it ,, he was never meant to be a coach

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let's... jeez. espn's quality is trash.

That first minute sounded like a beautiful fairytale, Gab. But he mentioned stress and family. Two key factors destroying the wishful tale

Barcelona is in a lot of trouble if they don’t win against osasuna on Wednesday

First, Xavi said he wants to leave at the end of the season just to prevent Barca from sacking him before then. Second, Xavi is not a good manager, deal with it and stop defending him. Third, Gundogan and De Jong are one of the best performers for this team so to talk about them like that tells that you have not idea what’s going on. Lastly, as a Madrid Fan, i wish Xavi could stay as a manager of Barca forever 😂

The hiring of marquez is the same problem repeating itself.

who turned on xavi? the players egos and their desperate search for a scape goat, bad players = bad results

The biggest mystery surrounding Barcelona is why Araujo plays top division football in Spain much less plays for Barcelona.

The answer on whom it is is extremely simple: Busquets and Roberto — both of them want to join Messi in Miami…..

If Xavi did anything to get on the bad side of Ter Stegen, whose been there through years of mess and been asked to perform miracles in goal, at times through injury, in a philosophy that has LONG cared more about defenders being good on the ball than actual defending, that's fireable in and of itself. Look at what has happened in Ter Stegen's absence. And another thing, Xavi has been given more grace than Koeman was, because the younger fanbase identifies more with Xavi than Koeman, because Koeman's time was when they were either very little or not born.

Wow, names. Did players turn on the legendary Xavi? I hear Lewandowski hosted a lunch party at his home following the announcement, and his was the first name Laurens mentioned. Has anyone noticed the gang sign that he shows during his goal celebrations. The mofo is dangerous.

His chair is under more pressure than any manager.

XavASS 😭😭😭

I think xavi realized that most of the fanbase is against him, and so on

Apparently the press conference was delayed because Xavi had an emergency meeting with La Porta, Deco & Co. Thats when Xavi made the decision and went straight to the press conference.

Gab, chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil!

What a f—-in circus

Bye Bye Xavi!!👋👋👋Don't let the door hit you on the way out!🤣🤣🤣

NOW REMOVE BARCELONA THERE AND PUT ON MANCHESTER UNITED...THE FIRST NAME WOULD BE RASHFORD

Bunch of nonsense 😂

Xavi to Liverpool plz.

Nobody needed to turn on Xavi, he didn't need a snake, he's just a terrible manager.

Ask Jose Mourinho about his last stint @ Chelsea and his “Three Rats” infestation.

Forget Barca, who would take Xavi now? back to Qatar or Saudi? Dont forget barca fans compared this guy with a 3 peat champions league winner Zinedine Zidane 🤣😂

It's highly recommended and a MUST for the FC Barcelona management, coaching staff, people in FC Barcelona who are involved in the transfer-market to permanently sell, do not extend their contract, do not offer loan with buy back clause condition, recall or return players that came from another club that are currently on loan to play for FC Barcelona, including ageing (above 27 years old), inconsistent (limited playing time, unable to perform well), players that are not comfortable playing different position instead of their natural position, "ON OR BEFORE SUMMER OF JUNE 2027" including players who will turn 30 years old on that year namely Lewandowski (35), Alonso (33), Gundogan (33), Martinez (32), Romeu (32), Roberto (31), Ter Stegen (31), Cancelo (29), Lenglet (28), Christensen (27), Raphael Dias Belloli "Rapinha" (27), De Jong (26), Kounde (25), Felix (24), Garcia (23), Dest (23), Pedri (21), Balde (20), Riad (20), and Valle (19).


Araujo, Gavi, Lopez, Yamal, Roque would be the future captains until 2030. While Pedri loves to play in the future in the premiere league or under the coach Luis Enrique (Spain National Football Team, and Paris Saint Germain) possibility that he will leave FC Barcelona if no UEFA CL won on the next three years. Practical thing to do now by the management is to promote consistently FC Barcelona Academy players and sign cheap and quality wingers, strikers, defensive midfielders, left back, right back and rotational. Then pay for the debts for the meantime and acquire more assets on the next 3 to 5 years so we could comply on the Financial Fair Play for Champions League and, La Liga.

I don't see our beloved Club FC Barcelona winning the UEFA Champion's league for another 10 years. Knowing Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, FC Bayern Munchen, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, FC Sporting, SL Benfica, PSG, Porto FC respective roster are getting stronger each year.

Nonsense,when Gundogan said what he said,he spoke volumes,needed a fresh face to say it.

My bets on Frankie, lewa and kounde. 🤷🏾‍♂️

ESPN trying to support Xavi to remain at Barca after they destroyed him with every chance possible till now. I don't like the media industry and how they just bring hate all the time.

What do you mean they don't have money for a good manager? This was the same stupid argument for the players as well, and guess what? Players choose Barca over money. I'm so sure there are lots of great managers that would take this Barca job in a second

YESSSS GAB PLEASE CONVINCE HIM TO STAY !!!!!! Xavi quedate xavi quédate HAHAHAHAHAHAHA YOU TOOL