Pre-season friendlies and their results dictate nothing. Even if a team loses all their matches, we can't write them off. Pre season is all about coaches finding out the right players in their starting XIs. Testing out as many players as they can. That's what preseason is all about.
If talking about Barcelona and Real Madrid specifically, they had decent preseasons each. Both teams have a decent squad to work with, especially Real. A lot of talents to browse through, and star players too. They kicked off well and might end up with 1/2 trophies in the end. Barca also trying their best to find the sweet spot, with a new gaffer in the club. La Liga should be interesting in 24/25, with Atletico also strengthening their team.
I do believe this to be 100% true, there are so many people who do not see this as a way of getting out, and because of that I think it's clear that we are going to end up with some issues we are not very much aware of, that's the most important point. I believe that we are going to end up with some results that will be good enough, and because of that we need to be careful with what we do, and if we know what we are doing then we are not going to be bothered at all.
We could keep this going as much as we can, and we are not going to end up with any comical level of problems, it is going to be quite good one way or another, that's the outlook when you are a good team. Even if you lose all your friendly games, you are still a great team anyway.