Barcelona will always strive to be the best, the problems that come repeatedly to the Catalan club seem never to be resolved so it has an impact on the club as a whole. This season, El Barca is not very stable, their performance is often not so consistent, so they are thrown out of competition with Real Madrid. However, now approaching the end of the season, the Blaugrana are bringing a glimmer of hope again due to their performance starting to improve, even though it is difficult to achieve points from their rivals, at least they will always try to get close, but in my opinion, if Xavi's troops can finish as runners-up, it will be quite extraordinary because Several things happened to the team which also resulted in Xavi's resignation as coach.
Financial problems are the beginning of Barcelona current decline, and even now they cannot overcome these problems even with the many solutions they have done, cutting the salaries of players, staff and even selling star players but still making the club's finances unstable, after the slump that exists in Barcelona, of course lucky for Barcelona because they still have former players who have been quite loyal so far For the club, I think Xavi has a very big service to Barcelona not only as a player but as a coach he is willing to leave a big salary in Arabia just to see Barcelona rise again.
But unfortunately Xavi's hard work at this time has not been able to lift Barcelona's performance to win the championship like his first season, Barcelona's poor performance is of course inevitable from the result of the small budget they have for player spending so far, and I think what you said is quite true because after all with Barcelona's conditions full of problems, of course the runner up position is an extraordinary achievement at the end of the season, And even I think if Barcelona hadn't been coached by Xavi then maybe we not saw Barcelona in the big 4 at the moment.