I think it's impossible to find a footballer like Messi, which puts pressure on new players. We constantly see players being promoted by the media as the new Messi. Everyone knows that the players' agents pay the media and get them to make news. If we think about the money that clubs pay to agents, we can understand how useless this money is. The media decides which player a team will sign and the players' agents can raise the price as they please. It's getting ridiculous.
I like Xavi's approach to football, he's trying to do what he wants to do step by step. Barcelona is playing better and better football every day.
Barcelona have become stronger with Xavi, but to win La Liga is not enough, in order to prove how strong they are, for this you need to show good results in the Champions League. This year they are more fortunate with rivals in the group stage, most likely they will not have big problems to reach the playoffs together with Porto, Antwerp and Shakhtar are not the teams that can compete with Barcelona.
Last season Barcelona was unlucky because they competed in a very tough group because there were Inter Milan and Bayern Munich, so this season is proof for Xavi of how he can lead his team in this competition.
From group H, Barcelona and Porto will be the teams that are predicted to qualify easily because the other two teams are just like cheering teams but don't underestimate them at all.
What will be a big challenge for Xavi is how to bring Barcelona to survive in the knockout phase, because one mistake will make them fail to win and advance to the next round.
Barcelona will start to enter a busy match schedule after the International break, playing in the league, mid-week in the Champions League, and the weekend back in the league, Xavi will have to be good at rotating his players in order to get good results in all matches, but the main striker is quite old the question is how Lewandowski maintains his fitness to keep playing and scoring goals for Barcelona, whether Felix will be able to prove himself as a reliable striker, everything is still a question.