President Laporta is enraged with FC Barcelona coach Xavi following Inter Milan's Champions League exit.
FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta is furious with head coach Xavi Hernandez for the first team's performance against Inter Milan in the Champions League on Wednesday.
The Blaugrana trailed the Italians twice due to poor defending and carelessness.
Despite the fact that Robert Lewandowski equalized on each occasion for the score to finish 3-3, Barcelona is reportedly out of Europe's biggest club competition in the group stage for the second year in a row, which will cost them around €20 million ($19.5 million).
The international break must bear some of the blame for the deaths of Jules Kounde and Ronald Araujo. However, as Xavi admitted after the game, if you can't beat Inter at home, you don't deserve to be in the Champions League.
The manager made a mistake by starting a creaky Marcos Alonso instead of Alejandro Balde, and the same logic applies to not starting Frenkie de Jong from the start.
SPORT writer Joan Vehils reported after midnight that president Laporta is furious with Xavi for the result, which will send Barcelona back to the Europa League if Inter defeats Viktoria Plzen in the early kick-off a fortnight from now before Barca faces group leaders Bayern Munich..
Xavi is also said to be frustrated with some of his players, as are the players themselves.
Vehils adds that the situation at Camp Nou is "complicated," and that decisions will be made after Sunday's El Clasico away at Real Madrid.
Guillem Balague, a BBC reporter, has made his own separate claims that Barcelona and their board of directors "are looking at the bigger picture."
"The bigger picture is that they failed in big games after investing €150 million ($146 million). Nobody is content here "Balague explained.
With a loss to Barcelona's archrivals at the weekend, which would seriously jeopardize their chances of winning La Liga, the pressure on Xavi will only mount.
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