• Football Xavi's challenges in a torn Barcelona

Xavi Hernández

has it very clear. It will not be hard, but it will be very

demanding

. Above all, with the players with whom he shared a dressing room at

Barça

. From his point of view, that is the way forward for the team to get back on the path of success. "It doesn't take hard.

It is a matter of order and rules

. When we have had rules in the dressing room, we have done well. When not, we have gone bad. Nothing more.

It is not discipline. It's order,

"stressed the new Barça coach on his coming-out. We need order. We have to be more professional than ever. With order and rules, we have done well. When it has not been like that, we have not even come to compete, "he insisted.

«The first thing is to set rules.

Later, we will talk about values.

If we don't have values, we don't have equipment

.

Then we will discuss how to play, how to defend, how to attack.

First, the rules.

Afterwards, the rest, ”stressed a Xavi who knows very well that comparisons with the club's brightest era, with the memory of who its main architect was, will be inevitable.

«

Being compared to Guardiola is already a success

, for everything he has given to football and Barça.

He was a model as a player and he is being a model as a coach.

For me, he

is the best coach in the world

and maybe any comparison, at this moment, is bad for me.

In the end, it will be the results that will tell if we do it well or not, "he said.

"My friends are the ones I will squeeze the most"

In his case, taking command of a team in which he still has a lot of locker room mates considers it an advantage. «I have friends within the squad and they

are

precisely

the ones I will push the most

. They are very important, they have experience, I know what foot they fit, I know their strengths and weaknesses.

They have to pull the car

, but they will be one more, everyone starts from scratch, "explained Xavi for whom the system is the least of it. «More than the system, it is

the idea, the game model

. We will try to dominate through the ball and thus we will have more options to win. There are different solutions that we will work on so that the player can understand how we can strike and how we can defend to hurt the rival, "he said.

In his style manual, of course, a transcendental figure for the paradigm shift of the club is very present. «It's a bit of

Cruyff's

idea

, my first defender is the striker and my first attacker is the goalkeeper. We have to be a block, make everyone feel good and protected both in defense and in attack. You have to work so that they know what to do at all times on the pitch, "explained the Barça coach, who knows very well what Barça means. «

It is the most difficult club in the world

. You have to play well and win, you have to convince, 1-0 is not enough. We have to return to the

requirement

and, from there, try to return to excellence, "he said. In his plans,

renewing Dembélé is a priority

.

He believes that he can be the best in the world in his position.

And Laporta, of course, took good note, with a somewhat comical reaction that was greeted with laughter in the press room.

Laporta: "Every day the League invents something new"

More serious, on the other hand, the president became when talking about numbers. He did not want to specify how much

Al-Sadd

has had to pay to

secure the signing of Xavi or how his possible collaboration will be in the future. And he was even annoyed at the

strong controls

that want to make him pass from

LaLiga

. «LaLiga looks at everything with a magnifying glass, it will not be anything new.

Every day they invent something new, like auditing

, they want us to sign operations that we don't see clearly ... If they want to review them, the books are open. And as for 'fair play', we don't have much salary margin, but we do. We hope that LaLiga sees it as we do », highlighted a

Joan Laporta

which defined Xavi's arrival on the bench as a

historic milestone

for the club. Of course, with very different conditions from those of

Frank Rijkaard

or Pep Guardiola himself, his two bets to lead the team in its first stage at the head of the entity.

«Xavi arrives at the moment when Barça most needs him. I would have liked to offer him a project that would make things easier for him, but he

has a staff with which he can work a lot

and he must be clear that he will have our trust and support at all times, even if things go wrong or twist even more », the top Barcelona leader reiterated. «We have full confidence in Xavi, because of his way of being, because of his personality and because of his knowledge. You have to command, lead the group to the best of your ability, and you will. It is difficult for him, it is a complicated situation, with a team that is yet to be done. He convinced me a lot when he told me that he can get a lot out of him, that he

knows how to make him play

.

Rijkaard took a team that was to be made and Pep, starting from a few fundamentals, led it to excellence.

Now it is different.

What he will do is put his knowledge into practice with the Xavi label, "he said.

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