XAVI HERNANDEZ'S DEPARTURE, A KEY POINT
Barça's final decision on Sergi Roberto's future
Published:6/02/2024 - 09:19h
Updated:6/02/2024 - 12:39h
Football has had many ups and downs for Sergi Roberto at Barça, but it seems that it has also brought him to the end of his time as a Barça first-team player
In the middle of a start of week in which the captain of the FC Barcelona, Sergi Roberto, has given steps in the correct direction to add to the list of summoned with regard to the visit of the Granada, beside Marc-André ter Stegen and Raphinha, also have arrived news on his future. The mediocampista finish agreement the next 30 June, being the only footballer in this condition in the first team beside Marcos Alonso.
In front of this stage his continuity was a bit in the air by his little participation in the first part of the season, to weigh that it won some chevrons during the month of December. A doublet in League allowed him add several titularities with Xavi Hernández, but after the announcement of the míster of his no continuity seemed to remain clear that the renewal of the captain would be more complicated, and in fact, seems almost impossible.
The Barça will have a new captain the next season
Like this it has informed it 'Relief', aiming that the sportive direction of the Barça does not have the intention to offer him a new renewal to the canterano Barcelona and even aims that in the next days Deco will communicate him to his surroundings the decision of not renewing the agreement of the footballer of 31 years (32 this Wednesday). To concretise this stage, very possible with the arrival of a new trainer, Sergi would put end to a stage of almost 14 years in the first team, and that besides began in the 2006 with his arrival to the Masia.
The debut of the mediocampista, and also lateral right, sucedió in the season 2010/2011, with Pep Guardiola and with hardly 18 years in front of the Ceuta, in the Glass of Rey. His stage like Barcelona clearly has been marked by the goal that certified the incredible traced back of the Barça in front of the PSG in the eighth of final of the Champions League in 2017, an edition in which the culés seemed directed to the final.
A low wage seems that it will not be sufficient 'excuse'
Sergi Roberto found does a year with a very similar stage to the current, but in that moment Xavi bet very strong by the renewal of the Catalan and tightened to the sportive direction for this. When having one of the lowest wages of the staff, his performance almost always was positive in relation to what could contribute to the club and what finished affecting to the mass salarial, but also has gone falling lesionado increasingly followed inside a midfield that seems the solidest line of the team.
