The years of camaraderie between Xavi and Pique seem to be over as the Barcelona manager will now have no favoritism with the defender for sharing the team a while back. Actually, the strategist was quite harsh about Piqué’s positionand even recently there seems to be a new word intersection between two words where DT ended up burying even more chances to see minutes from a centre-back.
The great moment of the generation change also had a noticeable impact, so that the famous “sacred cows” were even more sent to the bench, which was evident in the match against Elche, where Figures such as Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets and Piqué himself were in the dressing room.
According to Diario Sport, given the central defender’s lack of activity, he would talk to Xavi. Express your dissatisfaction and demand more playing time.
As the aforementioned newspaper explains, Piqué would say to Xavi who is very unhappy that he doesn’t even play petanque some words that the strategist did not like, who replied: “Now you will not play.”
Gerard Piqué is one of the highest earning players in FC Barcelona.and also one of those that saw the least activity this season, an issue the club will be trying to address by releasing him to further ease the payroll.
Likewise, the centre-back claimed a few seasons ago that he would have no problem leaving the team if he wasn’t in the starting line-up, so this could be the last season for the player who has trained at the club.
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