Barca News
These have not been the easiest days for Xavi Hernández since his arrival on the FC Barcelona bench. The Blaugrana coach was very forceful in the press conference after Barça’s victory against Alavés , in which he pointed out the press as one of the culprits for the team’s poor play.
“What the press says affects the team’s game , scenarios are generated that are not real , this affects,” said the Egarense in the press room of the Estadi Olímpic.
“They are too affected by what is said around them . It doesn’t affect me. I don’t play football. I don’t get nervous . They told me it was Barça’s cancer and here I am . This is what I told them at half-time . These players deserve credit . We are bad but we played a game that turned very ugly . I value the personality of coming back,” he said.
Xavi’s statements are not just words. In fact, as reported by the ‘Carrusel Deportivo’ program on the ‘SER’ channel, two members of the FC Barcelona technical staff have decided to delete their profiles on social networks to avoid reading negative comments about the team’s game.
AFFECTED PLAYERS
Always according to the same information, Oriol Romeu is going through “a crisis of confidence” that has affected his performance, a situation that would be associated with the criticism received by the press and the environment on social networks.
For his part, Raphinha, who has had difficulties achieving the expected impact at the start of the season in which Lamine Yamal has passed him in some important games , would presumably also be affected by the media evaluation, something that has already happened to him. Ferran Torres last season.
Source: Sport
