XABI'S MADRIDISTA PAST IS A PROBLEM
Controversial option! Barça could be interested in Xabi Alonso
Names continue to be heard as possible replacements for Xavi at FC Barcelona and the latest to do so is Xabi Alonso. The coach leads Leverkusen in Germany and is currently the fashionable coach in Europe, but his Real Madrid past generates a lot of controversy
The FC Barcelona follows studying the market of trainers in Europe and one of the names that like could cause quite a lot of controversy. As they signal in 'Sportive World', Xabi Alonso is in the list of the barcelonistas, that look with attention his temporadón at the head of the Bayer Leverkusen. The donostiarra is surely the fashionable technician right now and the feeling is that it could finish being one of the best of the world if it follows his progression as it expects .
To level futbolístico, the Basque would be ideal for the Barça, since it studied to Pep Guardiola during the stage in which the Catalan trained to the Bayern of Munich. The basic concepts of his Leverkusen are resembled the ones of the teams of the of Santpedor, by what his style would fit as 'ring to the finger' in the Camp Nou. However, there is a big but with the ex mediocentro and is not another that his past madridista, since it played in the Real Madrid five years, of the 2009 to the 2014, being on one of the big idols of the madridismo in that then.
Xabi was in his moment one of the big banners of the called 'Mourinhisimo' that so many headaches gave in the Barcelona. The ex of the Real, by the way, also took to José Mourinho like example and learnt things that also is putting in practice now like trainer. He same recognises that Pep and Mou were his 'mirrors', the same that Rafa Benítez, of the that also learnt a lot in the stage that both coincided in the Liverpool.
The madridismo of Xabi seems a too big obstacle
It does not seem easy to forget of the past of Alonso, that besides trained a season in the quarry of the Real Madrid before voler to the Real to direct to the filial. In Donosti attained to go up to the team to Second, although only it lasted in the category of silver of the Spanish football a year. After going down went of the club, expected his moment and in October of 2022, with the already begun campaign, went to the Leverkusen to take out him of his bad situation, and a year and half afterwards turn him into the leader of the Bundesliga and in one of the most attractive teams to see of all Europe.
Therefore, the only that would move away to Xabi of the Barça is his past in the White House, that is not little. First it would be necessary to see that he was had to 'betray' to the madridismo, something that is not easy taking into account that it says that it is the favourite for suceder to Carlo Ancelotti when it leave the club. And on the other hand, also it has to sopesar the Barcelona if the culés would accept to be led by an ex madridista confeso, something that neither seems at all simple. Besides, it is necessary to take into account that the Liverpool could go to by him now that Klopp is not, by what between his ex team to the that has him a big affection, and the Barça, the normal would be that it chose to return to Anfield to lead his new project.