Barcelona News: Catalan club offers Xavi huge managerial contract to replace Ernesto Valverde

Tanish Chachra | 11/01/2020
Barcelona News: Catalan club offers Xavi huge managerial contract to replace Ernesto Valverde

Barcelona News: Catalan club offers him a two and a half year managerial contract to replace Ernesto Valverde amidst fans uprising against latter.

Yesterday reports circulated that Eric Abidal has flown to Doha to meet his former teammate, Xavi Hernandez, while his team played in Jeddah against Atletico Madrid in Supercopa De Espana.

It was reported that the Director of football at Barcelona has met the former Spanish International to offer him a role as the manager of Barcelona and to replace Ernesto Valverde.

According to a report by the AS, Barcelona has offered him a 2 and a half year contract at Barcelona, as the club has finally agreed to match the tone of the club fans, who want Valverde to leave the Blaugranas as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, it has also bee reported by Gerard Romeno that Xavi will decide if he wants to become the new manager of FC Barcelona tomorrow. If he says yes, Valverde is gone.

If Xavi agrees to join Barcelona, it will be after 5 years that he will be returning to the Catalan city, where he gave the majority of his playing days until he chose to leave for Al Sadd in 2015, now he is the manager of that Qatari club.
It is surely a huge risk to give club legend like Xavi a role of the manager at the club but last time when they did it with Pe Guardiola, it turned out to be the most glorious days in the history of Barcelona.
Meanwhile, there are other names that have been strongly linked with the job have been Ronald Koeman, Roberto Martínez and Thierry Henry. Barcelona’s stance to date has been that Valverde will see out this season.
Next few hours will be crucial for the future of Barcelona, as Xav is set to return his home after spending 5 years away from home.
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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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