With the Spanish Championship already defined, the suspense of the last round revolves around the future of Barcelona coach, Xavi Hernández, who on Sunday, at the Sevilla stadium (13th), will be able to say goodbye to the Catalan club.
Barça, who have already secured second place, visit Sánchez Pizjuán in the last match of the 38th round with the doubt of what will happen to Xavi after the strange succession of changes of opinion he has had.
In short, in January he announced his departure at the end of the season. In April he changed his mind and said he was staying. And now information points to an – unwanted – departure of the 44-year-old former player.
“For me, absolutely nothing has changed. We will sit down with the president. And if we have to talk about something, we will do so, but in principle everything is as it was three weeks ago”, assured Xavi a few days ago.
But according to several media outlets, the board was reportedly unhappy with Xavi after he highlighted the club’s poor financial situation to justify his team’s poor performance.
Recently champions, Real Madrid are in the opposite situation, calmly preparing for what could be the icing on the cake of a spectacular season: the Champions League final to be played on June 1st against Borussia Dortmund.
His sparring partner will be Betis (7th), already qualified for the Conference League, at the Santiago Bernabéu, with Carlo Ancelotti finalizing his plans to win Madrid’s 15th Champions League, which would be the sixth in the last decade.
Revelation of the season and qualified for the Champions League, Girona (3rd) opens the round this Friday by hosting Granada (19th), relegated to the second division.
Fourth placed and also guaranteed in the next Champions League, Atlético de Madrid ends the season facing the other team that will be ‘European’: Real Sociedad (6th).
Source: Gazetaesportiva
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