In terms of competition for the title for La Liga, Barcelona is still very difficult to do because they are inferior in terms of player quality to several challengers. Girona or Atletico Madrid have the opportunity to compete with Real Madrid even though in terms of quality Real Madrid are still at the peak of their glory because they have a number of great players in them. If they want to build a better team strength, Barcelona must sell several players who have large salaries so that they can maximize their finances.
Hansi Flick has approached several players and he is trying to maximize transfers that don't cost a lot of money to buy players. Hansi Flick must be able to bring Barcelona to the top three next season and they can try to fix the problems slowly so that Barcelona can return to the peak of its glory.
What does the top three have to do with it, they only need a victory, in my opinion this is clear to everyone. A reasonable transfer policy also plays an important role, although Real Madrid does not have big problems with finances, but they were not in a hurry to buy Mbappe last season for crazy money, they just waited a year until he became a free agent, that’s what I call a reasonable transfer policy. Now Barcelona has to apply the same approach, achieve results with minimal investments, of course this is much more difficult, but if circumstances require it, then how to do it differently...
A team as big as Barcelona is not built just to be able to finish in the top 3 of the main standings, but they are targeting to become champions, even though it is difficult, management will try to achieve this.
And indeed Barcelona is currently in trouble because of the mistakes they made in the past, so now there is no maximum effort that can be made by Barcelona to be able to recruit quality/expensive players, they can only rely on several young players to improve the team's performance. .
That's the difference between Real Madrid and Barcelona, the Real Madrid team is quite smart in stabilizing finances and buying players, Barcelona doesn't have this so they are down like they are now.