Xavi Hernandez will return back to FC Barcelona as general manager next month if Victor Font is elected as the club’s president on Jan. 24.
Xavi, 40, left FC Barcelona in 2015 and is the coach of Al-Sadd in Qatar but has always wanted to be a part, and has been open about his desire to return to Camp Nou one day.
Victor Font explained on Wednesday that his plans for FC Barcelona’s future, which include bringing in Jordi Cruyff as sporting director, have been drawn up with the help of Xavi.
“As [General Manager], Xavi will take responsibility for all the decisions taken related to football at the FC Barcelona club,” Font said at a news conference.
“He has everything needed: he can manage, he can lead, he has the trust of the players, he knows the club very well because of his past experience with the club and he loves the club.”
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Xavi turned down the chance to replace Ernesto Valverde as Barca coach last January and it has long been expected that when he returned to Catalonia it would be in that role.
Font said he eventually sees Xavi combining the two roles but added that boss Ronald Koeman deserves to be backed for now.
Dicussion about Xavi Hernandez has been reason for gossip, as fans were eagerly waiting for him to return back to Barcelona since he left the club in 2015.
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“The problem is the absence of a project and strategy. But if things go badly with Koeman, Xavi will be the coach next season”.
Font is one of nine candidates hoping to be elected as the successor to Josep Maria Bartomeu as Barca president.
Another of the candidates, Emili Rousaud, announced on Wednesday that the agent Josep Maria Minguella, who helped bring Lionel Messi and late Diego Maradona to Barca, will be his vice president if he’s elected.
Minguella as given a slight indication about signing Borussia Dortmund forward Erling Haaland if things go there way and they gain power.
“We know the conditions [to sign Haaland],” Minguella said. “I have spoken with [his agent Mino] Raiola personally and if Rousaud wins I will phone him the next day and accept them — if the sporting director signs it off.”
Minguella also said about signing Paris Saint-Germain’s Kylian Mbappe, in 2018 when Neymar left.
“Mbappe’s name was always going to come up. His name was on the table when Neymar left but the sporting director decided [Ousmane] Dembele was more necessary at the point of time.
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