Xavi won't manage again - Guillem Balague - video Dailymotion

Football journalist Guillem Balague believes Xavi will quit management completely after leaving Barcelona

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00:00 I don't think you're going to see him on the bench again.

00:03 That's it. He had his thing at Barcelona.

00:06 He won a league, which will never be forgotten,

00:09 but to continue trying to improve the side,

00:14 and that's where you see where the really good coaches are,

00:17 where he adapts to the new players, adapts to situations,

00:21 adapts to rivals. Basically, you will have to admit

00:24 that he hasn't done it well enough to have a long-term future at Barcelona.

00:29 But there is another political situation at the club as well,

00:32 which is that having won the league last summer,

00:36 basically it was his opportunity to reinforce his authority,

00:40 but instead, as he feels he's a club man,

00:43 he allowed the club to do whatever they wanted.

00:45 And whatever they wanted was basically to get rid of two of his biggest allies,

00:49 Jordi Cruyff and Mateo Alemany, and bring in the likes of Deco,

00:55 Drafa Marquez as well, people that are aligned with Laporta,

01:00 and Jorge Mendez, the agent, which has brought players

01:06 like Cancelo and Joe Felix, but that's not what Xavi needed.

01:10 So not only he lost allies, he didn't get the players that he wanted.

01:14 At that point, perhaps another manager would have said,

01:18 "You know what? You do it your own way."

01:20 Xavi, feeling that he's a Barcelona man, first of all,

01:24 said, "All right, I'll deal with whatever comes my way."