Barcelona ahead Memphis Depay has stated he is ‘excited’ to work beneath incoming head train and club legend Xavi, who returns to Camp Nou to take his first managerial gig in European soccer.
Xavi received it all a couple of instances over at some stage in his glittering player career, which spanned 17 years inside the Barcelona first-crew. He racked up 25 trophies, made 767 appearances and mounted himself as one of the finest midfielders of all time.
Upon leaving Barcelona in 2015 after prevailing the fourth of his Champions League titles, Xavi endured his playing career with Al Sadd in Qatar, earlier than taking on as supervisor there in 2019.
Xavi led Al Sadd to the Qatar Stars League title final season, having in advance won home cups.
He is now taken into consideration the person by means of Barcelona to save them after a disastrous start to the season, which saw preceding boss Ronald Koeman sacked closing month. Xavi’s former Barça teammate Sergi Barjuan has been in brief rate due to the fact.
Memphis is one of the gamers who can be expected to thrive under the brand new boss and the Netherlands global is asking forward to it.
“[Xavi] has quite a few enjoy in pinnacle football and I suppose he's going to bring that experience into the crew,” Memphis defined to club media following Saturday’s 3-3 draw with Celta Vigo.
“I don’t know him individually, of course I understand him as a football participant. But I’m excited to work with him. I assume he can raise our spirits and we ought to raise our spirits collectively, also the gamers – and speak approximately things and have conversations to have greater outcomes in the video games.”
Barcelona had raced into a 3-zero lead against Celta, with Memphis scoring the 1/3 goal with little greater than half an hour performed. But a second 1/2 crumble underneath sustained stress saw Celta fight back – even having the ball within the internet five times inside the 2d 45 mins and claiming for a penalty.
Xavi may even must deal with an injury disaster once he starts work. Ansu Fati, Eric Garcia and Nico all withdrew from the in shape in Vigo with harm issues, including to an intensive list of absent players that already consists of Gerard Pique, Pedri, Ousmane Dembele, Sergio Aguero and others.
