Barça: therapy for the Bernabeu

It's time to get up.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
15 October 2022 Saturday 03:38
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Barça: therapy for the Bernabeu

It's time to get up. Reinforce convictions. Multiply faith. There is no other. That is what Xavi Hernández and President Joan Laporta have been up to in the last few hours. They had a first hot conversation in the coach's office at the Camp Nou on Wednesday after the game against Inter and they spoke again yesterday. Carpetazo to the Champions League, at least until October 26 when elimination is expected to be consumed, and long live the League, with the Bernabeu classic as the main game to try to return to the car of illusion. This was stated yesterday by Joan Laporta, who decided to appear on the scene again, this time on the club's official television, to try to convey his support for Xavi and the team and to ask the fans to keep the flame of hope alive. “I have intact confidence in Xavi, the coaching staff and the team and I ask people to also support the coach, he needs it. He knows the club and the Barça system perfectly. He is a great coach and as a person he is excellent. He will give us many successes, ”said Laporta.

The president found a beaten Xavi in ​​the bowels of the Camp Nou, but yesterday he saw a much livelier coach. At the end of the day, if the leader and the coach are alike in anything, it is that they are two optimists by nature. “Xavi has a virtue, that he immediately always sees the positive part. Nobody else does that. Today (yesterday) we have also spoken, with our voices becoming stronger, we will go to Madrid together”, argued the president.

Together to seek redemption and revival of spirits at the Bernabeu in a stadium where Barcelona fans have experienced great joy in modern times. Not in vain has Barça won 6 of the last 10 league classics on white ground. “The main objective of the season was and continues to be the League. The classic is a great opportunity for this team to claim and remake itself. We have to show that we have the capacity to react and I hope that the players go out with the spirit of getting up”. The leader believed that whoever wins tomorrow "will come out very reinforced and whoever loses will come out hit." Laporta expects a Barça like the one he won last year at the Bernabeu and was pleased to have attended major Barcelona matches at the Whites' fiefdom as president. As if it were not enough to appeal to these pleasant memories for the Barcelona fan, the president came to promise, although the calendar is in mid-October, more signings. “We have brought in very good players and we have a competitive squad, but one that is still under construction and in a period of adjustment. We will continue to make adjustments." In this sense, he did not hide that the club thinks about joining in January. “This team is still being made. We are working for the winter market, with the intention of improving the first team so that it is more powerful and better”.

The entity's future plans do not include the four captains, three of whom (Piqué, Busquets and Alba) have a high contract. Despite this and despite the whistles towards the veterans of a sector of the fans, Laporta preferred to have good words with them. "They deserve all the respect and admiration for everything they have represented and represent within Barça."

Despite this positive tone, Laporta acknowledged that these days have not been pleasant at all. "We didn't expect the blow of the match against Inter because both the club and the technical secretariat and the coach made a lot of efforts this summer to put together a competitive team". The Bernabeu will test if Barça knows how to recover.