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Barcelona is no longer the Barcelona with Messi or Ronaldinho. I want to be optimistic, but there seem to be so many problems. With the economic crisis, the players' situation, and the coach's process of adapting the team, I hope Barcelona will return to its old strong days. I would love this. We are used to seeing them as one of the 2-3 best teams in Europe.
Barcelona's golden era has ended and now they are in a new era. It is undeniable that Barcelona is now no longer the best competing team in Europe either in the Europa League or in the Champions League, even in La Liga they are really struggling to win a place in the Champions League zone. This kind of situation is not what they want by nature, but it has happened and they are just working to fix it.
Barcelona needs time to improve everything, but sometimes people expect them to be strong without strong financial support. Real Madrid is clearly in a period of glory, but it's not certain they can stay like this forever without financial problems. Even other top teams may still have problems in the future, but we don't know when.
I am interested in Barcelona getting stronger, I want to see a very strong Barcelona so that they can play with everything they have against Real Madrid, They have a great player like Yamal, he is good and has a lot of potential. I think that next to Lewa he can make the difference In this order of ideas, what they need is for people to believe in them. And why do I want them to be very good ? Easy, because only if Madrid beats them, the victory will be much more pleasant , than saying that they were beaten with the best players they have at the moment.
Those of us that are not Laliga fans, the beauty of football in Spain to us is the rivery between Real Madrid and Barcelona. The competition to win the Laliga, the face off in El Classico. All these have been possible because during these times that Real Madrid had beat players, Barcelona also had the likes of Messi, Xavi, Iniesta ie after the time of Ronaldinho, Eto etc.
But today we have an overload squad in Real Madrid but no balancing one in Barcelona. Although the Yamal is there, if Barcelona should bring Nico Williams, with Lewa at the top, Barcelona can compete with Real Madrid to an appreciable level.
And that is one of the reasons why I don't want Barcelona to ever weaken, because now I know that Madrid is very strong with its players, but I also want Barcelona to know that, it is better to beat a Barcelona with the best they have and not beat them because they were weakened, I think that a victory like that is not something that gives much dignity, it is much more gratifying when they do it with all their might and can do it against the best, also Girona is a team that should be Taken care of, they are very strong and play great football.