Posted on November 4, 2021 at 8:30 am by AC
Currently linked to Al Sadd, Xavi is the big favorite to become the new coach of FC Barcelona.
If we are to believe the Catalan press, it's just a matter of hours. After two games under interim Sergi Barjuan, FC Barcelona should finally have a new manager with Xavi. The former midfielder is the top priority of Joan Laporta, who has mandated Rafa Yuste and Mateu Alemany in Qatar to negotiate with Al Sadd, which can be based on a contract until June 2023. The main concerned was also released from the silence on Wednesday, clearly expressing the wish to find Barça. “Now the two clubs have to negotiate, you know my position,” Xavi explained in an interview with Cadena SER. “I'm very excited to be going home, hope that happens. It's coming back to Barça, coming back home, it's exciting of course. ”
Barça and Xavi want to settle everything today
This Thursday, Mundo Deportivo teaches us that a new meeting should be held in the coming hours, in order to find an agreement for the return of Xavi to FC Barcelona. The two representatives of the coach Fernando Solanas and Arturo Canales will be present, as will Rafa Yuste and Mateu Alemany, the leaders of Al Sadd , but especially the owner of the club, the Sheick Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Thani . Mundo Deportivo specifies that Xavi should have a private interview with the Cheick, with whom he would have a special relationship.