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."