The keys to Xavi's return to Barça: delayed arrival, compressed salary and respect for Qatar

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The defeat against Rayo was already unbearable.

, who had already been taken away by the demons in some of the falls of the team led by

He told his companions in the Vallecas box that patience had reached that point. That the Dutch coach should be fired as soon as possible. He didn't even wait to land in Barcelona. He did it during the same return trip from Madrid while some members of his board of directors, who saw how his idea of ​​keeping the Wembley hero until the end of the season could end up turning against him, admitted with regret that the situation had reached a point of no return. «And now we know that with Xavi we risk everything. It is a bet that will mark our mandate. It must go well ", maintained yesterday a source of the Barcelona dome.

Xavi Hernández

, who had been waiting for this moment for weeks, had already agreed with members of the Qatari royal family that there would be no obstacles to leaving Al-Sadd and joining Barcelona. Of course, always going head-to-head, without breaking emotional and promotional ties with a country that will celebrate the World Cup in a year - a tournament for which Xavi is an ambassador - and carrying out a formal negotiation with Barça. The former midfielder's contract includes a termination clause of just under one million euros. Although the sources consulted do not rule out that another type of pact is reached that frees Barça from facing this amount.

Of course, Xavi, even being aware of the importance of the duel against Dinamo next Tuesday in Kiev - a game in which Barcelona will play a good part of their survival aspirations in the Champions League -, denies a hasty farewell.

At this point and after the Qatari regime welcomed him and his family in 2015, any movement will be very well measured.

The November 3 Border

Before a long hiatus from the Arab Cup dispute, his league-leading Al-Sadd, who has won all seven championship games this season, has two matches. One next Saturday against Al-Ahli, and another more important, on Wednesday, November 3, against Al-Duhail, second classified. That is, one day after the Barcelona meeting in Kiev. It would be from then on when

, brother of the Emir of Qatar, could give the final go-ahead to the exit. Xavi Hernández has a contract in the emirate until 2023.

Joan Laporta, despite being convinced that the German model represented by technicians such as

,

,

or

was the right one for this time, and despite the fact that last summer he wanted nothing to know about Xavi after he was the great electoral asset of former presidential candidate

, he has ended up yielding. And that some intimates of Laporta advised the president a few days ago that, with the four captains still in the team (his former teammates

,

,

and

), the moment could not be ideal.

From Xavi's circle they understand that the Al-Sadd coach will have no problem sitting down some of those sacred cows if the team's tactical, physical and emotional reconstruction requires it.

A downward salary

One of the aspects to be solved is the salary to be charged by the future coaching staff of Barcelona.

According to the LaLiga economic control regulations (articles 74 and 75), the Barça club should only be able to invest a maximum of 4% of the established salary limit (97.9 million euros) to register the coach, an assistant and a physical trainer.

That is, 3.9 million euros.

All this without counting the apportionment for the change of coaching staff with the season started.

Barcelona, ​​in any case, prefers not to confirm this extreme for now, at the expense of LaLiga's instructions.

The CEO of Barcelona,

, in fact, assured a few days ago that the club had been able to slightly expand the salary margin.

Although Koeman will also have to pay about 12 million euros in amounts owed to him.

Xavi's idea is to have a good part of the technical team that has accompanied him during his Qatari stage, with special relevance to his brother

, who now works as an assistant with

, and the physical trainer

.

«I am obsessed with possession of the ball.

To attack and to generate chances.

The model is the key, and I am clear that I must have the ball.

If not, I suffer », Xavi explained in a recent intervention on the

portal

.

In his two years as a coach, he has ended up prioritizing a 3-4-3 open-ended scheme, a system that at the Camp Nou may have to vary in the absence of pure ends beyond a

tied to the stretcher.

While Xavi prepares a farewell with honors from Qatar,

will have to keep Barça afloat for a few more days.

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