When Deco first started to sound as a potential candidate to replace then Director of Football Mateu Alemany, many wondered about the relationship between the Barcelona Sporting Director and manager Xavi Hernandez. Less than a year down the line, it has not gone well.
Ultimately Xavi is leaving due to the results on the pitch, but in a recent piece by Guillem Balague explaining the sum of reasons that inspired his resignation, Deco is included. There were strong suggestions that by the time Deco left the club as a player, he and Xavi were not seeing eye-to-eye, and when Pep Guardiola arrived, he made Deco and Ronaldinho’s departures a matter of priority.
Balague explains to the BBC that Xavi has felt increasingly alone in the club since the appointment of Deco, and the loss of Jordi Cruyff and Alemany. To Xavi’s face, Deco continues to be supportive in front of the president, backing him to the hilt. However in private, Deco is ‘not afraid to share his misgivings’ about Xavi.
This comes not long after Deco gave an interview claiming that Barcelona needed to break with their old model and search for a new methodology, although he did row back on those comments. With the next choice of manager likely to be an amalgamation of his and Joan Laporta’s preferences, his true views on how Barcelona should play could become much clearer in the coming months.
xavi has felt increasingly alone at the club since the arrival of deco ? are you having a laugh what complete and utter rubbish especially considering he has his own brother and all of his staff from his time in Qatar right by his side every day at fc barcelona lmao
Its well seen this is from guillem balague who supports espanyol lol this website must be so desperate when its posting these complete and nonsense fake stories
How do you know it is a fake story?
All the problem came after leaving Alemany and Yordi.
I dont lol can you prove its not a fake story ? the story claimed that xavi has felt increasingly alone at the club since the arrival of deco so are you saying im wrong that xavi didn’t and doesn’t still to this very day have his own brother and all his past qatar staff by his side day in day out at fc barcelona ?
because last time i checked and saw with my own eyes they were all very much all present and accounted for these are facts i could ask you the very same thing can you actually prove with actual facts not rumours or claims that alemany and yordi leaving caused the problems ? alemany and yordi may very well indeed have greatly contributed to the recruitment and sales sector of the club undoubtedly but they both were not on the fc barcelona bench or even more importantly on the pitch itself the two most important and vital areas imo that contribute to either the success or failure of a football club