Xavi charged FC Barcelona players more than $1,000 dollars for arriving late

Although last season FC Barcelonawith trainings.

The revelation was recently made by Pedri in an interview in which he spoke about the rigor maintained by the strategist who ended his time with the Barça team at the end of last season, giving way to German Hansi Flick, who is experiencing a great moment with the club he leading march of LaLiga.

“If any soccer player arrived late (to training) they had to pay an amount of more than $1,000 dollars for each minute of delay”commented the Spanish midfielder during an interview on the Spanish program ‘Martínez y Hermanos’ in which he did not leave the former culé coach in a very good light due to his rigor with punctuality.

“With every extra minute from that first onwards (the penalty) was doubled.” There are coaches that if you spend more than five minutes it is more than $5,000 dollars (fine)”continued Pedri, who is a regular in the starting eleven of the German strategist who has already won seven consecutive games by a landslide in both the league and the Champions League.

The words of the Canary Islands footballer in relation to the coach are not the first after the player made a comparison a few months ago of Xavi’s work with respect to the new cycle that the Catalan team is experiencing, which in Pedri’s opinion is “much more worked.” than what happened with the world champion with Spain in 2010.

Although it is still early in the season, the difference between both teams is abysmal taking into account the current situation of FC Barcelona, ​​which under the command of the German coach has become an effectiveness machine that only has one defeat in the Champions League against Monaco (2-1) on the first date.

Hansi Flick is also strict

In his interview, Pedri not only spoke about the ‘hard hand’ of Xavi Hernández during his time at the head of FC Barcelona but also about what the German coach is implementing in the Barça team, something that judging by the results they have been achieving until now At the moment it seems to be working great.

And the former Bayer Munich coach is a little more severe than his predecessor since two possible sanctions await players who arrive late to training: one is to go directly to the bench in the next match and when it is a case a Anything stricter is not even included in the call for said duel.

The most recent ‘victim’ of this method was the Frenchman Jules Koundé who, despite being a regular starter in the FC Barcelona eleven, was relegated to the substitutes’ bench a few weeks ago as a result of arriving late to training.

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