Rafa Marquez to replace Xavi? 🤔 Is he Barcelona’s best option, or just the cheapest? | ESPN FC
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- čas přidán 18. 04. 2024
- On Futbol Americas, Sebastian Salazar and Herculez Gomez debate Rafa Marquez’s suitability to succeed Xavi Hernandez as manager of Barcelona.
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We thought Xavi would be the next big thing. Apparently, it's Xabi, not Xavi.
Well, when you have an inpatient board and spoiled fan base, this is what you get
Xavi won the laliga and a super cup
And has played in the quarter finals of the UCL.
I think he did well
Xavi was never meant to be next big thing. He was just a next thing possible
Xavi won La Liga and Super cup and when he stepped in Barca was 11th in the league, he had a limited budget after sales of 40m! Only had 4m last summer to replace Busquets! And he’s still improved later on this season! Xavi is amazing!
@@kaskovic1993 we can say whatever we want but la liga is just about top3 team in league so getting in top four is nothing big for top 3 clubs in la liga he had easiest way to go to final in ucl even with 10 man you can defend 2 goals if you put your life on line but they cant since xavi was the first to scrumble under pressure
Yes please, he has good strategies and what is needed right now for Barcelona
Where is the experience? Has he proved that he can be good coach for big teams like Barcelona, Real??
@@ramrm1460 Xavi had little to no experience prior managing barca..
@@ramrm1460doesn’t matter anything could’ve happened that man Pep only had like 12 months of experience with the b team before becoming Barca senior coach as his first job either way doesn’t matter xavi stayed
@@chocolatemilk4481 Rafa Marquez won’t succeed at Barca first team coach, I can give a guarantee on that. I don’t think with this Barca team, there is a coach in football world who can literally flip the switch and somehow turn this team into the beast 😤💪🏻 like Girona coach did, Xabi Alonso did with Bayer Leverkusen, Klopp did with Liverpool, Hansi Flick did with Bayern Munich, Pep Did with Manchester City & finally Carlo Ancelotti did with Real Madrid. Can Rafa Marquez do that with this Barca team? No! It’s not happening because Barcelona are also not financially in that condition where they can build so strong squad depth by signing world class players spending millions of euros like Chelsea, Manchester City, P$G, Real Madrid does…we simply can’t do that.
As a Mexican that grew up watching him, I think he will be better if he goes to a smaller la liga team or France. Also an assistant manager will definitely help him.
u understand, he needs to be like zidane under anceloti
If you would ask me. I think Xavi should have remained as Barca coach, he was shaping the players really well.
But he comes across as very fragile , angry and stressed out
the problem with xavi is that things have already gone astray and the current group of players as a whole is not able to handle stress while xavi is also not able to reign them in. it took xavi publicly resigning for the players to start calming down again and that strategy wont be available anymore if they start the season dropping 10 points immediately and the players start panicking again. then it would be too late for the club to do anything and they will then be forced to sack xavi to get things under control.
Xavi wasn't doing jack s***. The youngsters that have been breaking through have done so on the merit of their own talent not because Xavi is some brilliant mentor. He is hot-headed, biased, inflexible with his personnel and tactics and cannot handle the big occasions all that well. Man should be shipped back to Qatar because that's where he belongs.
Xavi is a moron.
@@ghosthaunter6820Everything you said is on point. Xavi never outgrew his playing days behavior; immature and childish. He has not been barca coach for half of the duration of Sergio Ramos' playing career but he has managed to bag almost more than half of Ramos' career red cards. You wanna know why the players make idiotic decisions, look at their coach's behavior first. Marquez will be a better manager than Xavi because he is calm and collected.
Rafa Marquez is considered one of the top attacking centerbacks, has scored in all World Cups hes played in. Coaching Yamal would be insane, or any of the Spanish kids
I would not mind having rafa at barcelona at all but I still want xavi to stay though 😂
You’re not even a Barca fan, why are you talking??
Aguierre coached ATM back then. He had ATM competing against Barça and Real Madrid.
True....but ATM back then was nowhere near the team it is now. It was in RM's "we're looking for a serious rival for the derby" banner era. They were midtable side with the greatest achievement being getting to 4th in the table. Love Aguirre, but this isn't the same thing as getting the FCB job offer
He is a great coach
lol, for barcelona cheapest _is_ the best! 🤣
As long as rafa continues the work of xavi which is to give opportunities to the youngsters and believes in them then im all for it, my main worry is la masia
If Rafa Marquez came in, Barca were in a relegation fight. Mark my words!
Gab Marcotti literally just wrote an article two days ago saying it’s best for Xavi to leave because he’s too close to and too invested in the club. So Barcelona would then hire a guy who spent years playing at the club and several years managing their reserve team? Wouldn’t that be a very similar route with Marquez?
Exactly !
Not to mention Marquez's involvement with a certain criminal element in his home country....
Barca needs Luis Enrique back and Lewy and Gündo and De Jong out
@@tk80mufa5Haha you’re clueless if you think Gundo and Lewa are problems when we have dead weight like ferran, romeo, Alonso
@@barcavibes7514 you only mentioned bench players , makes you look 'clueless' - Gündo showed good form in LaLiga but like Lewy failed to deliver in important CL knockout matches
@@tk80mufa5 Pedri been out most of the season, Gavi as well, De Jong has 1 G and 0 A I believe and christensen had to be forced to Cdm bc De Jong couldn’t do it So what would your midfield lineup be ?
@@barcavibes7514 i have to admit , as i got older , i can't watch that many full time games anymore - mostly extended highlights
it's hard to say , but obviously , players like Lewy and Gündo are too old to create a new era over 4-7 years , and De Jong was brought in because of that one good season with Ajax in 2019 IIRC , and because Koeman (?) wanted him
i would focus as much on Spanish/Portugese/Argentinian/Brazilian/Uru players as possible , on La Masia players ,
look to Athletic Bilbao and Basque players in general , be like Leipzig always on the lookout for new hungry players
but get rid of these high payroll players who aren't delivering in UCL anymore
then again , if Lewy and Gündo and De Jong stay , and next season a new coach comes in and maybe 2-3 new unexpected players , maybe they challenge for LaLiga because Real once again focuses only on UCL , and they will get team chemistry problem with Endrick and Mbappé ?
maybe even play a diamond prmanently in midfield for Barca , who knows
problem is Gündo , as much as a respect him and the things he won , he is too slow , and not the sort of tempo dribbling guy Barca wants at every position
maybe even move J.Cancelo to CDM as an experiment?
the great thing is , as bad as the 1-4 was as a result , Barca won the first game and went up 1-0 in the second
so Barca is not that far away , however i don't know who in La Masia would be the perfect new Busquets , i don't watch the B team
Flick would be better option bcs Rafa is new he needs more time
Barcelona does this every time and people doubt and they shock the world!
Bruh we just lose 1 game since the Xavi announcement and it's back to Xavi out...no wonder he leaving I would
No fan is saying xavi out but the media
Isnt for losing the game but how he lose.
He show against PSG that he is impulsive and incapable of keeping his cool
@@avalle4493on point. Let me add more; and very immature.
It appears you re obviously not watching barca's games. It isn't not just winning or losing but how you do. We've obviously lost our dna/style of play under him.
Give xavi a chance he got us thr laliga title last season and also won a cup this season he helped us reach the final against Madrid and also the quarter final in thr champions league appreciate what he has done no one is perfect 😢
Always remember that the only thing Barcelona will lift this season is their hands during the corners 🥱
Remember that Almeria game ? That’s why Madrid will lift anything
Is that all ??
okay seb saying how this piece of information came from SPORT immediately convinces me that this is complete nonsense. sport likes to often report nonsense, whether it's under the orders of the board or not, likely to feel out the reaction of the fanbase. i wont believe it until i see marquez literally signing his contract
At this point, I should apply to coach Barcelona. I coach my Sunday league team. That should be good enough😒😒
No way!!!
Mourinho or Benitez
😆
Singing a Coach with no experience to save 4 or 5 million and lose 100 million or more when being eliminated from all competition. excellent strategy
These dudes know nothing about Barca, thiago Motta isn't even shortlisted as a new coach for barca...
I shut this video when he said the team is add odds with each other. these news fabricators create whatever narrative that serve their purpose, especially the likes of ESPN and Mundo Deportivo.
ESPN for me has zero credibility when it comes to reliable sports journalism.
Ballist what you're talking about, they can't afford to pay coach salary where they can buy Players for 50-70M nonsense and rafa Marquis won't be Barca coach for sure
if this is true, barca will spend another 5 season watching Real Madrid lift all the trophies.
STRAIGHT NO TO RAFA MARQUEZ 🇲🇽 how can he coach Barca team? No way! He cannot handle the pressure the media criticism..he has no experience in high level either, you can’t play tikitaka anymore it’s not gonna work, he is not Pep or Enrique either 😂🤷🏻♂️ so how can he coach Barca?
this is the most unserious decision barca has made if they get Marquez
you dont know ball
"Serious" in your term is HIGHLY dependent on money. If they had unlimited, they could make the most "serious" decision, since they don't, they have to realistic on who they can get
@@adriano846 why say so?
@@MC-tl7oj no, they can get someone who knows how to change the situation and turn it around coz barca need change....
they need to be sitted down and shown how to compete coz they do have the quality but lack of discipline and PHYSICALITY is limiting the team
hansi flick will make it a walk to the park if he gets this team
let me coach Barcelona
Hit the gym 1st buddy 😂
If Marquez takes this job it’s gonna be a serious L for him, gotta start with a smaller club
Rafa Marquez is not a good idea for Barcelona right now
Barca is not serious about business.
Barca are broke asf🤣
Rich then u 100%
@@north.shqipe003 ! I’m so offended and saddened by an organization that has existed for over 100 years having more money than me, how will I survive. 😱
More like the dumbest option... I'd rather stick with Xavi if not Hansi Flick
Wasn't he accused of being a drug dealer? Lol.
Is Barca that broke they can’t get a proven coach?
rafa marquez would be the worst decision no sabe nada
Seriously , if they get Marquez they could lose out the UCL qualification
Y’all Americans talk way too much when it comes to football these days…
This is why both of you are espn pundits For mls. Just stick to that and just talk about mls and leave Europe to the rest.
Rafa as coach will be another season down the drain
Xavi Deco out
Psg destroyed barca lol
If he were that good he would already be the manager of the National Mexican team. Use your brain guys.
So you think a coach of his age 39 years old will take national team job 😂😂
doesn’t work like that
First of all the Mexican federation is corrupted. They put in a manager that’s gonna listen to them rafa Marquez knows this. I’m sure he would love it but he knows the state of Mexican soccer has a lot of corrupt officials at the head of it.
You sound hella stupid right now to see a young coach at NT level😂
They probably know the corruption that takes place in the federation. That's why the likes of Javier Aguirre are not coaching the national team.
Dont do it Rafa! Qatari league is less competitive than the third tier league in spain. Rafa and Xavi have just about the same cred lol
Envidioso
if barcelona gets RAFA MARQUEZ as their head coach, laporta needs to step down right now before he makes the club into more of a joke
I don't even think laporta wants rafa either ofc he's not gonna say that but barca don't have the funds to get an experience coach Yes hansi flick is there but who knows his requirements he's gonna want his piece, also remember xavi wasn't laportas 1st choice either but he was cheaper for the same reasons there's no fund
We’re so fucked if we hire Marquez as the main
Have some respect he is only second to Puyol.
Another failure though. Barca should get an elite coach. All have been fail since Enrique. Valverde did ok though in Spain but not Europe
you were the clown that said barca win ucl, so just shut up