"Xavi is head and shoulders above everyone else, both personally and professionally. To me, he's a top-class manager." The ground reality The conversation then shifted towards the difficult reality of working at Barcelona during one of the club's most unstable periods in recent years.
Barcelona has played nine matches without Lamine Yamal this season and lost just one, showcasing a significant improvement compared to the previous season's performance without him.
Milan's second half of the season has been a tough one, with just 25 points collected so far in 16 games. The most recent blow they received in Reggio Emilia against Sassuolo was particularly painful and prompted a disappointed reaction from the management.
The decline was fueled by a series of departures that felt like a punch to the gut. Seeing Micah Parsons traded away was a tectonic shift that no one was truly ready for, and losing veteran leaders like DeMarcus Lawrence and Jourdan Lewis to free agency only made the wound deeper.
"We won, and that's what we wanted: to play our game and play football. We celebrated the victory in the dressing room, but not the title. We were only focused on getting the job done today."
