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Gab & Juls Show: Xavi DNA crucial to Barca turnaround?

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss Barcelona’s LaLiga title victory and ask what impact Xavi has had on a club that has had plenty of drama to contend with off the pitch. The guys also discuss Manchester City’s 3-0 win over Everton, AC Milan’s Ultra intervention and praise Gael Clichy after his goal for Servette from the halfway line. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Gab, he's jouled blue skies over West London. Of course, blue is still skies over Barcelona. They won their title.

0:12.1

We're gonna do that. Blue skies, sky blue skies. I'd like to say here, over Manchester, huge weekend in the Premier League.

0:19.6

Of course, with the city winning the Gap, with four points and a finish.

0:24.8

It's finished. Pretty close to finished. But we got to start in Barcelona because obviously we knew it was coming

0:33.5

and it came, no surprise there, but there's still that sense of liberation, right?

0:38.7

Four two against Espanol. And I was thinking back like,

0:44.5

all right, I'm a sucker for Chavi. I'm a big time Chavi fan. I think he deserves

0:52.7

a massive chunk of the credit here because you can look at this and you can say,

0:56.8

okay, it's like you really only have to be two other teams, use mortgage to future to spend all this money,

1:04.7

you brought in Livondowski, blah blah blah. But when you actually think about it,

1:09.6

first of all, I don't know that the newcomers as a group had as much of an impact as all that

1:14.9

spending warranted. But what I think is incredible is what is the stability Chavi gave them,

1:21.9

even if so much stuff was going on, the financial stuff, the Rikis-Negreta case,

1:27.3

all this stuff, even Pika retiring, that's his teaming, right? And that kind of leadership

1:35.6

coupled with his tactical changes as well, finding that tweak at the end with Gavi in that

1:42.7

other wing position, but not really the asymmetrical setup without they going up the wing.

1:47.8

I think this is so much the praise with the Chavi's done.

1:52.3

Yeah, for his first full season in charge, really, because he came during last season.

1:57.5

November. Yeah, so during his first full season, he brings the title back for the first time in four

2:02.8

years. It's four years of very long time, for a club like Barcelona not to win La Liga. So,

2:07.9

well done to him, you're right, I think it was a very difficult context all around the team from

2:11.7

the summer and the levers and whether we're going to be able to sign players or not,

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