The chance was pretty small for barcelona to win UCL. All of premier league clubs were making massive improvements. Manchester city has also become even stronger than before. I remind you the result against arsenal. Arsenal is a strong team right now. Its level was still under manchester city but it's still also one of strongest team in EPL. The chance for la liga to win UCL is pretty small at this moment. EPL club may dominate the UCL competition. Barcelona needs to prove its quality in the group stage.
The last season has become floop for barcelona as the team was not only failed in the UCL. It was also failed in the europa league. Barcelona needs to prove it first. Im skeptical with barcelona's performance.
barcelona will be using some players from its own academic next season. These players need to get more experiences first. The next season gonna be very difficult for barcelona.
Agree with you that it is unlikely that Barcelona will win the Champions League trophy next season, but every prediction can be wrong as the season goes on. If setting parameters of the transfer market as a basis for assumptions to sort the favorite clubs to win the UCL next season, I think Barca will be included in it. Because currently Barca is ranked number seven in the sequence of clubs that have the most expensive squad in the world.
Barca is also trying to do the same as elite European clubs who are currently intensively improving their squad. However with a modest budget, Xavi cannot do much to recruit star-labeled players. Taking advantage of Barcelona reputation as a big club can provide an advantage in the pursuit of players with free transfer status, like Gundogan.
Barcelona is a good team. Because without being a good team, they would not have been able to actually win the La Liga title. But the quality is still not good enough to actually be the Champions League winner in my opinion. For Barcelona to be able to win the Champions League, it is going to take a lot more time. Right now Barcelona should still be concentrating on the La Liga title In my opinion. Because right now if Barcelona does concentrate on the Champions League, I think they are actually going to miss out on both the Champions League title and also the La Liga title. It is resolute in my conviction that Barcelona's concentration should gravitate towards the defense of their La Liga championship.
Anyway, Barcelona is certainly not winning the Champions League title this upcoming season.
Actually, we don't need to speculate too much about Barca because the quality of the players today is not what it used to be and we just need to be sure that at least Barca will be strong enough to face every match in LaLiga and be able to take first place in the standings is much more than enough.
Unless they have top players to count on in the champions league so we can speculate on this.
But we have to be pretty sure that Barça can get another cup besides the champions league and it quite simple that Xavi will come up with the best strategy for this season