🎙| #AlavesBarça | Live Thread: Xavi’s press conference ahead of tomorrow’s game against Alaves. 
Xavi: “Alavés is similar to Athletic’s style. We will find ourselves in a similar match and try to improve. We urgently need a victory.”
Xavi: “Miss Ansu Fati? It’s a difficult time now.”
Xavi: “Ansu is affected. On Monday there will be another meeting, we have now spoken with the family. It is a relapse. Pruna said that he was for half an hour and there was an extension. Now we hope that he will recover 100%. Monday it will be decided. We must now be positive.”
🚨| Xavi: “Dembélé’s situation hasn’t changed. He knows what there is and he has to decide.”
Xavi: “We are working in several areas per market. We have spoken and I have been very clear on what the team needs to strengthen. We are going to see what we can because from what we want to what we can.”
Xavi: “We are working to incorporate some signing.”
Xavi: “What worries us most are the results. It takes more time than we thought and we have to be patient, believe in the idea that made Barça great and that we are trying to recover. But what worries us most for now are the results, Clear.”
Xavi: “Dembélé is fine and calm. He is training well. He knows his situation and there is no more.”
Xavi: “I’m not a doctor when it comes to Ansu. What you have to do is recover him mentally, give him love and let him know that we need him.”
Xavi: “I am optimistic because otherwise I would go home. I am convinced that we are at the beginning of something important. You have to have faith, persevere, insist. It already happened to me as a footballer and I came out.”
Xavi: “At Barça there are no transition years but we have to insist and keep trying. In difficult times you see people and we need to be united to push this forward.”
Xavi: “We are at the beginning of the project and we have to believe in what we are doing. I went through that when I was a player and there were doubts, and in the end we succeeded.”
Xavi: “I know where I am and I know there are criticisms, but we have to reach our goal, and if we don’t, we will work hard to reach and continue, we are in a difficult situation.”
Xavi: “I understand the criticism of the veterans (Alba, Piqué, Busi). It happened to me that the shots go to the sacred cows.“
Xavi: “They must be brave and pull the cart because they are from the house, they have an unquestionable commitment and here, you always, play for you performance.”
Xavi: “On Monday it will be decided what to do with Ansu. There will be a meeting with his family, the doctors, with himself and it will be seen what is best for him (regarding a possible operation).”
Xavi: “We are frustrated and sad about Ansu. We are suffering major setbacks and this is very serious. It’s a shame.”
Xavi: “I also have to be patient. Insist more on everything we think is the idea, the style, to compete better. We’ve had good times but it doesn’t give us the results we want. We have to grit out teeth and follow, continue.”
Xavi: “We analyzed the Athletic match. They beat us by intensity and courage. Not by technical level. And that’s what hurts me the most as a coach. We lacked that intensity that is needed in San Mames. And tomorrow in Vitoria will be a similar scenario.”
Xavi: “Dembélé? We’ll give the list tomorrow.”
Xavi: “Frenkie de Jong has to be important, and he will be, for sure. He is an important player for us, he came back from an injury recently, and because of the circumstances he was on the bench in San Mamés, I have no doubts about the commitment of these players.”
Xavi: “The team lacked possession against Bilbao? Yes, in the first half we didn’t advance, we have to do it better.”
The end of Xavi’s press conference. #fcblive
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