Let's be realistic. Whoever replaced Xavi this season could not have won this cup. Xavi managed Barcelona in the best way possible and handed the team over to Flick in second place. We will watch together what Flick will do next year, but there are no big differences between Flick and Xavi. If Xavi wanted to go, of course his decision should be respected, but if Barcelona wanted to send him, I think they are making a big mistake.
If we look at Barcelona's performance since the start of last season, we can see that Xavi is actually a good coach, he has a good leadership spirit, it's just that the competition with Madrid is very tight, Madrid has more of a winning mentality than Barcelona, regarding whether Flick will be able to bringing Barcelona to be the last in La Liga, I also doubt it, just being able to finish in the top 2 would be a good achievement for Flick.
If xavi wasn't a competent coach then Barcelona would not have won two trophies under him. This sounds weird to call xavi bad when he left from barcelona due to the internal problem withlaporta. Xavi is a good coach, but not for the club's chairman considering laporta was always making the problem for the club. Laporta is in my opinion, Barcelona's main problem right now caused by any of his decision is really contradicted. He continues to try to justify his decision to keep some unproductive players.
Xavi wants to get rid them all since he knows they will not be useful to Barcelona in the following season. Picking flick was not too horrible, but I'm not sure flick will be able to adjust to Barcelona's playing style.
It will be strange to see Barcelona which has very often played with ball possession and change its tactic to a straight offensive rather than constantly owning the possession of ball.
Under Ancelotti, Madrid has been effectively rebuilding the new Los Galacticos. Barcelona fans wanted their clubs to win the competition and this is the main problem faced by barcelona this season. Things are not going very well for barcelona since laporta was so stubborn without even try to hear xavi's suggestion for this..
It isn't just that they finished second this season.