Xavi and Ter Stegen at a press conference

XAVI DID NOT CONSULT IT WITH THE ENTIRE SQUAD

Ter Stegen's captaincy would have been agreed without a vote

Published:31/12/2022 - 12:39h

Updated:31/12/2022 - 12:39h

New information ensures that Xavi Hernández would have granted the captaincy to Ter Stegen after speaking only with the members of his 'staff'

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Marc-André ter Stegen has been appointed like fourth captain of the FC Barcelona after Gerard Hammered took the decision to hang the boots. However, the consensus to designate to the German like one of the referents of the plantel would not have carried out of the usual way to avoid conflicts.

Like this it has it desvelado the newspaper 'Sportive World', the one who ensures that Xavi Hernández wanted to carry with distrust the election of the new bearer of the band. Although the technical body had always clear that all had to carry out once the international were of return in Barcelona, the true is that it did not make any vote inside the staff.

The trainer would have taken the decision of form reserved beside the 'staff' to avoid alter the order of hierarchy imposed from the beginning of the season, by what Ter Stegen will exert like four captain by his condition of experience, situating by behind Sergio Busquets, Sergi Roberto and Jordi Alba.

Unnecessary scrutiny

According to the newspaper, Xavi saw totally unnecessary to subject a vote to these heights of the course that could bring consequences for the convivencia of the changing room. The aim was to give him priority to the path of the German but no under the election of all the team, since it could have a climate of tension if any of the current captains had seen ousted.

This if, from the 2023/24 will restart the process of election with normality, being subjected to vote by the rest of the members of the first team. In fact, the exit of Busquets keeps still on the table, what would free another 'spot' inside the temporary line of the captains. It will be necessary to see what so much changes the situation during the summer.

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