THE CHANGES BEGIN
Dembélé, the first 'victim' of Xavi Hernández's rules at Barça
Published:12/11/2021 - 18:27h
Updated:12/11/2021 - 21:08h
The order and the regulations are the pillars of Xavi Hernández to 'recover' the best version of FC Barcelona in the most complicated moment for the Catalans
Xavi Hernández did not come to play to the FC Barcelona. It wants that the team recover his best expensive and knows that for this it is necessary to go up the requirement to the maximum in all the senses, reason by which in the moment of his arrival to the Ciutat Esportiva, the past Tuesday, implemented a series of rules to be able to have 'controlled' to the changing room. One of them was the punctuality.
The trainer left clear that the footballers have to arrive two hours before to the training (for desayunar, go through the scale and do the complete follow-up) and that, if they delayed , would have to pay economic fines that always result an annoyance for the footballers.
The system of fines carries long working in the football of elite and the Barça has lived it in a lot of periods to be able to 'demand' punctuality to his footballers, but after the exit of Luis Enrique relaxed too much the measures. Now, Xavi Hernández wants to restart all the strategies that are possible to have 100% of his footballers and that they can offer his best performance on the terrain of game.
The case is that, as it has informed 'ESPN', Ousmane Dembélé has been the first player in jumping one of the norms and confronts to the first fine of the era Xavi. The footballers had been summoned to the Ciutat Esportiva to the 08:30 hours and the French arrived three minutes take, to the 8:33 h. The training was foreseen to start with to the 10 of the morning.
Although only they were three minutes late, foresees that 'Dembouz' was fined by the one of Terrassa to inaugurate the 'sanctions' by impuntualidad. On the other hand, Alex Pintanel, of Goal, aimed that Xavi was the first in arriving to the Sportive City, to the 7:52 h and that Ansu Fati was the first footballer in presenting in the installations.
Xavi, 'obseso' of the control
As well as the subject of the punctuality, Xavi wants to be to the so much of all the related to his players, from his feeding, weight (have to go through the scale daily), until the previous preparation to the parties. The egarense has implanted a series of norms that go from forbidding the use of social networks the day of the party and also the day of before, until 'forget' of the extreme sports.