Currently the best teams in La Liga are Barcelona and Real Madrid. But comparatively Barcelona team is ahead in great form. On the other hand, Benzema's place in the Real Madrid team is looking great.
Barcelona only got back to good last season because Real Madrid wasn't so consistent in winning matches, whereas previous seasons Barcelona didn't look as good as last season. So in general Barcelona are just trying to look good and that was what Barcelona managed to get last season, but for next season Barcelona still has to fight hard to be able to look even better because Real Madrid will also try to be better in La Liga and so also at UCL.
Im sure barcelona made some significant improvements. Madrid was losing in the previous match against barcelona. This result is far better compared with last season. Barcelona needs to reach UCL level. some great players already bought by the club but i think that the thing that's gonna make it differ compared with last season shall be on the winger. barcelona had dembele last season which has been contributing a lot but it's gonna be different next season as barcelona has no dembele. Playing without dembele gonna make a lot of impact on the winger of barcelona.
Let's see who's gonna be a replacement for dembele. As far as i know that if barcelona is still having raphinha but i can't expect him to play as good as dembele last season.
Will barcelona have different performance to play without dembele? I wonder how xavi gonna try to solve that problem.
Barcelona has proven that their strength is still strong enough when they face Real Madrid, even the presence of new players certainly makes Barcelona stronger for next season. There are many rumors circulating on social media where it is predicted that Xavi will be able to become a coach who will follow in the footsteps of Pep Guardiola success in building Barcelona triumph in his coaching era. Xavi can prove that praise if he succeeds in bringing Barcelona to win the UCL trophy.
So, if you see the gap left by Dembele, of course it will be a new job for Xavi to find new players to fill that gap. Bernardo Silva and several other players were targeted by Xavi to strengthen the gap left by Dembele. I think barcelona will again sign a star player for that position.