Is Xavi the best coach for Barça?

With the euphoria at record highs —a delicate moment like few others, especially in a season of minimal services like the current one— some fans and scholars of the Barça model even claimed that Xavi Hernández had inoculated I don't know what concepts of positional play in Pedri until he became the most decisive midfielder in the major European leagues, including the Europa League.

In other words, of course, because if something determines the current football analysis it is the use of an extensive specialized vocabulary that still escapes the abrasive control of the RAE, but it was said: the canary did not know how to play football until the one from Terrassa arrived with his eight hundred helpers —not all of the family—, millions of cones and an app.

I have no doubt that Xavi will have taught Pedri many things, especially when he was still wearing shorts and the rivals surrounded him as if he were a roundabout.

I was recently in Fuerteventura and it seemed to me that the Canarians did not give this backbone of traffic the aesthetic importance that we do give it in Galicia, for example, where we have turned them into authentic open-air museums while the others, the museums of true, they are being converted into something akin to day centers for the lucky few who still work there.

The fact is that there is a lot of the footballer Xavi in ​​the current Pedri and also in the roundabouts, in his practicality, in the understanding and use of space,

in that treatment of collective anguish that ends with a simple exit to the exact place where you want to go.

But I will not be the one to ensure that Pedri has learned it for a few months now, as if before the arrival of the new coach he made a living laying plasterboard.

Barça is lost by mysticism too often at the wrong time: everything is magical, unfathomable, sometimes incomprehensible, often unbearable... In any other place on the planet, in any other club without so many philosophical demands or so much metaphysical story, the improvement of the team in the first months of the year it would have been associated with the conjunction on the field of the best players in the squad.

Also to the work of the new coach, of course, but above all to the recovery of footballers who, due to injury, disenchantment or omission, had left Ronald Koeman's austere plans lame.

Some of them —Piqué, Busquets, Pedri— are among the world elite in their positions and others like Araújo or Gavi will be so soon.

Together, or even separately,

Since his arrival, it has been repeated ad nauseam that Xavi Hernández is the best possible coach for Barça.

The premise is good if we forget that the best coach for any team in the world —but especially for Barça— is in Manchester, and that bringing him back seems like a pipe dream.

But like almost everything in this life, it is one thing to be and another, very different, to show it.

A disservice, therefore, is being done to Xavi by those who avoid acceptable criticism for fear of being expelled from Cruyff's Ithaca, while at the same time inventing fake merits to avoid the million dollar question, if that is the case: could it not be?

Well, he can, but Pedri is there to add some confusion and give him, by the way, the time necessary to prove it.

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