According to Tasnim news agency, Barcelona club president Juan Laporta admitted in an interview with Catalonia Radio that if another coach had been in charge of Barcelona instead of Xavi; With the results of this season for the blue and oranges, he was dismissed.
Xavi, whose team lost two El Clasicos to Real Madrid this season, was eliminated from the Spanish Cup and is 10 points behind Real in the La Liga standings, was under so much pressure that he announced last week that at the end of the bench, Xavi leaves However, according to Laporta, Barcelona’s results and performance were so bad that if any other coach had taken Xavi’s place, he would not have been able to last on the Catalans bench until the end of the season.
In response to the question that he would have been fired by now if Xavi was replaced by someone else, Laporta said: If Xavi was not the head coach, yes. In the case of another coach, I would not have taken this approach.
The president of Barcelona then referred to the possible options for Xavi’s replacement and said: “Our list of options (for Xavi’s replacement) has been shortened, but in the end you have to ask the opinion of Deco (the club’s sports director) about this issue.”
Laporta also stated about the chances of Rafael Marx, the former defender of Barcelona and the head coach of the club’s second team, to replace Xavi: Rafael Marx has not been crossed out of the list of options, because he is doing his job well. Marks has one advantage over the size of the options, and that is coaching at home, while he knows the coaches he is training, and this is an advantage he has over other options. The club has prepared itself for an emergency program with the head coach of the reserve team.