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It really hurts me as a Barca fan to see the way the team played last night, getting desperate with their shots even though they actually had the game in control. Even took me so long to finally write about it.

This was a long time in the signs already of course and we really need fresh blood. Fans say luckily Real are also in decline, but we forget to respect others like Athletico and Sevilla.

In my opinion, it's not good and healthy when one team depends so much on one player.
Messi is probably one of the 3 the best players in soccer history but he is not young any more.
How long he can still play?
What will happen with Barca when Messi retire?
Who can replace Messi?

It is certainly a problem for any club to depend that much on one player, but i don't blame Barcelona that much.

Messi is such a brilliant player that it would be the same in any other club. When you have such a talent, it would be foolish not to build the system around him, and take the advantages of his strengths.And as we can see, it worked well so far, with Barcelona being most dominant team in quite some time. They might constrain him more, but in the process that would maybe mean less trophies won.They even sacrifiesed another great player, Ibrahimovic , in the process while loosing Etoo, that fitted that Barcelona perfectly.

Barcelona will certainly have huge issues after he retires, but i think it was worth it, it was a good trade off for Barcelona in the end.

Yes, I agree with you.
When you have such great player like Messi, you build team around him.
But, I dont see that Barcelona have some long term strategy for the "world after Messi ".
What about their sport academy?
Young players?
They just buying new players without any concrete plan and strategy.

That is true, La Masia is not effective anymore, not producing quality players like they used to and this will become problem in future unless they change something.

Few years ago they lost one very interesting player that impressed me during Euro U21, Dani Olmo that won Euro with Spain team, while being one of their best players.He did unexpected move, left their academy and went to Dinamo Zagreb where he developed into very good player, basically more offensive Modric, with a bit different skill set but same potential of becoming great player.They might bring him back, for maybe 30-40 million.That is nothing for them nowadays and i think they will have to get used to buying players like all the other top teams.

But then again they don't have strategy regarding buying finsished players either, when we saw what happened with Coutinho.Time will tell i guess.