{"id":205704,"date":"2020-03-30T08:50:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T07:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=205704"},"modified":"2020-03-30T08:51:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T07:51:18","slug":"xavi-ready-to-manage-barcelona-gives-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=205704","title":{"rendered":"Xavi &#8216;ready&#8217; to manage Barcelona, gives conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Xavi says he is ready to manage Barcelona, but warned that \u201cthere can\u2019t be anyone toxic around the dressing room\u201d, if he is appointed in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>The former Spain midfielder, 40, spent the first 18 years of his playing career at Camp Nou, making over 700 appearances for the club.<\/p>\n<p>Xavi won 25 trophies during his time at Barca, including eight La Liga titles and four Champions League crowns.<\/p>\n<p>He was currently managers Al Saad in Qatar and was heavily linked with a return to the Camp Nou as manager, before Quique Setien was hired to replace Ernesto Valverde in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am clear that I want to return to Barcelona, I am very excited,\u201d Xavi told Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that I have seen myself coaching I think I can bring things to the players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to work together with people in whom I have confidence, with whom there is loyalty and who are very valid people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere can\u2019t be anyone toxic around the dressing room.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavi says he is ready to manage Barcelona, but warned that \u201cthere can\u2019t be anyone toxic around the dressing room\u201d, if he is appointed in the near future. The former Spain midfielder, 40, spent the first 18 years of his playing career at Camp Nou, making over 700 appearances for the club. Xavi won 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,13587],"class_list":["post-205704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-xavi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}