Problems in Barcelona? Xavi Hernández was not Joan Laporta's chosen one

The era Xavi Hernández at FC Barcelona has already started and with force. With the Barça coach imposing his discipline in the culé dressing room from day one. However, and despite the fact that the Barça club juggled to remove the Al Sadd coach, paying the five million euro clause between the two, Joan Laporta had in mind to give the first team bench to two coaches before the Spanish . And these two technicians were tied to Ronald Koeman.

Once the departure of the Dutchman was made official, Sergi Barjuan assumed the position of coach in Barcelona on an interim basis, but according to the Catalan press, the relief was not going to be initially the coach of the Blaugrana subsidiary, but Koeman's own assistants. According to journalist Lluís Canut in ‘Esport 3 ′, Joan Laporta offered the Dutchman's two assistants, Alfred Schreuder and Henrik Larsson, to be the interim technicians after Koeman's dismissal.

Both the Dutch coach and the Swede rejected this possibility, out of loyalty to Koeman, so the Barça leader had no choice but to find another solution, which was the momentary promotion of Sergi Barjuan. Thus, the Catalan president had no choice but to improvise again and call Barjuan to take charge of Barça until Xavi Hernández's option became a reality. Under the interim coach, the Barça team managed to draw in the League against Alavés and Celta de Vigo, and a Champions League win against Dinamo Kiev.