RAKITIC REMEMBERS 'HIS' BARÇA
Ivan Rakitic explains the main reason why Xavi should stay at Barça
In a recent interview with 'Jijantes', Ivan Rakitic has 'remembered' FC Barcelona, the team in which he played between 2014 and 2020. He took the opportunity to send a message to his friend Xavi Hernández in the midst of rumors about his future
Ivan Rakitic is living a new stage, entirely distinct, in the Saudi Arabia. It left the Seville to add to the rows of the To the-Shabab and exploring a very different football to the that came living in the ultimos years between the picture hispalense and the FC Barcelona, between 2011, when it landed in Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán and beginnings of this year, after his decision to change of airs.
Recently it has been in an interview with Gerard Romero, of Jijantes, in which, in addition to reviewing his actuality in the To the-Shabab in the middle of some physical problems in the last days, has spoken especially what is living the Barça. It has left 'glimpse' that is very pending of the parties and movements of the Barcelona in spite of the distance.
Rakitic 'Remember' to the Barça and the 6-1 against the PSG
And it is that it has spoken on the recent victory in Paris, in the gone of the quarter-finals of the Champions League, that considers that it was amazing: "it Was a hit on the table of the Barça. We remain us all with the open mouth and wanting to more, no only by the result, but by the way to compete and of how played the party", commented, adding that "I expect that it was the first step of all what have to come, went a very important victory".
It has remembered the last time that confronted to the Parisian picture with the T-shirt blaugrana, in the traced back of the 6-1: "These moments, as all very fast raisin, remember them to the cape of a time. All the world speaks of the titles that won, but are these parties those that really remain in the memory. If there was an able team to do it, were we. It was a madness of day, one of the biggest parties of the history of the Champions".
The key on the future of Xavi
On the other hand, it has spoken on the current moment of the Barça of Xavi, standing out that "it is only, special. There is an intelligence futbolística, that is not to know add or subtract. It is to know understand it, and once it pillas, there is not better place to enjoy it", deepening in that "Ter Stegen is a bitch madness. It is crazy, is to an incredible level. No only by what stops. Also all miss to Gavi, see it with Pedri, with the magic of Frenkie and of Gündogan... That they follow going in young, that go learning. I wish him the best to my fellow Xavi, that go of wonder. I go to be followed always to the Barça and wish him the best".
Of the future of the egarense, finally, insisted in that there is not a more prepared trainer to carry the reins of the Barcelona bench: "it Is his decision, but there is not person in general that it can understand more or better to the Barça that Xavi. It took to the team in a moment very delicate, with a lot of changes, with an at all easy context that does not help neither to the club neither to the míster. And Xavi has been able to it carry out".