Not the end his Barca career deserved. Do Barca now fade as a European superpower? Still a lot of wages to shift to even maintain the balance at this point and they will have significantly less player pulling power.
Not the end his Barca career deserved. Do Barca now fade as a European superpower? Still a lot of wages to shift to even maintain the balance at this point and they will have significantly less player pulling power.
It's a great question. There are still a bunch of good young players at the club, but the club is a complete mess and why would anyone trust them to suddenly turn things around. Messi has held them up for the last five years. Throw in PSG and the increasing financial power of the Premier League and Bayern just having a monopoly on one of the best talent-producing nations in world soccer, I think we'll Barca slip to where they were in the late 90s and early 2000s -- one of the better teams in Spain, not a true threat in Europe.
Not the end his Barca career deserved. Do Barca now fade as a European superpower? Still a lot of wages to shift to even maintain the balance at this point and they will have significantly less player pulling power.
It's a great question. There are still a bunch of good young players at the club, but the club is a complete mess and why would anyone trust them to suddenly turn things around. Messi has held them up for the last five years. Throw in PSG and the increasing financial power of the Premier League and Bayern just having a monopoly on one of the best talent-producing nations in world soccer, I think we'll Barca slip to where they were in the late 90s and early 2000s -- one of the better teams in Spain, not a true threat in Europe.
But there's a new management at the helm. Doesn't that matter?