Al Sadd remain 'devoted' to preserving Xavi at the club, in spite of a delegation of Barcelona executives travelling to Qatar to finalise a deal to make him their new head train.
Barça are currently with out a manager following the sacking of Ronald Koeman on the give up of last month with former player Sergi Barjuan currently in price on an period in-between basis.
Barjuan is unbeaten after two games, even though his side's performances were uninspired. They first stumbled to a disappointing draw with Alaves before narrowly beating Dynamo Kyiv 1-zero in the Champions League.
After that game Barjuan admitted that he became now not positive whether or not he might stay in rate for his side's La Liga meeting with Celta Vigo on Saturday - and Xavi is extensively expected to be showed as Koeman's successor soon.
In latest days although, his current employers, Al Saad, have hit out at Barcelona for their unprofessional approach. Nevertheless, Barça vp and director of soccer, Rafa Yuste and Mateu Alemany, flew over to Doha recently to hammer out a deal.
This has now been mentioned by using Al Saad, but the membership have exceptionally claimed that they intend to keep keep in their cutting-edge boss.
"We welcome the go to of the executive delegation from , and we recognize and appreciate this," Turki Al-Ali, Al Sadd's CEO, stated in a announcement.
He delivered: "The club's position is obvious from the start - we are dedicated to keeping our coach Xavi with us and we can't have him leave at this sensitive time of the season."
Despite this, Barcelona continue to be assured of getting their guy and plan to confirm Xavi as their new head coach before the weekend. The membership legend takes over an unenviable situation with the Blaugrana in disarray financially and sorely missing skills at the pitch.
They are already eight factors off sour rivals Real Madrid after eleven games and in addition they have plenty of work to do in an effort to progress to the Champions League knockout tiers.
