The Catalan boss spoke ahead of Barcelona’s LaLiga game against Almería.
Xavi walked into the press conference room at Barcelona’s training ground on one leg; with the tightrope swaying wildly due to the lateral gusts of 90mph, a rainfall of poison arrows sprang from handcrafted bows and famished lion-dragon hybrid creatures snapped incessantly at his heels.
At least that’s what it felt like. The pressure on the Barcelona boss is back: a loss to Girona knocked the side for six and that was before Antwerp beat them and Valencia got a point at home against the, remember, LaLiga holders. Now, it is time for Almería, who are bottom of the LaLiga table with just 5 points from 17 games, and Xavi’s perfect opportunity to get things back on track.
“We’re playing good football again”, he began when asked how things are going, “but we need to win. We’re playing at home, we need to play a complete game, that’s what we’re missing.”
Given it’s almost Christmas, and given that the president of the club was only speaking about it yesterday, we only had to wait until question two for the topic of transfers to be raised: “We always want to reinforce the squad, in summer or winter. We want to look for the pieces that we don’t have. With the injury to Gavi (ACL), we need a midfielder, but finding someone in the market who is like Gavi is tough. We all work together, with Laporta and Gavi to improve the squad.”
After admitting to wanting a signing and, in record time, giving everyone the headline they wanted, attention turned to Vitor Roque, a player who is set to arrive at the club “after the holidays” from the Brazilian first division: “we can’t put all the pressure on a kid”, Xavi warned, “just like we did with Lamine Yamal. We have to work
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