You think Flick didn't do much compared to what Xavi did but I think it's because Real Madrid didn't do well last season is why they made it out. If Real Madrid was really the way they are all this while? Believe me the way they were fighting and all others way to make it to be first team on the table, it would have been impossible for Barcelona to win Laliga last season but Real Madrid lost its 3 El clasico, there was nothing to show off about their performance.
This is a very silly excuse. By this, we can say the season before last, when Madrid won the league, they weren't that good, but it was Barcelona that was bad. Barcelona were a very good team last season, and Flick was exceptional. You don't have to be a fan to acknowledge that Barcelona were good. They were the best team in the league and by a distance. They dropped form in November and December of last year, and Madrid overtook them by 7 points, but when they picked form again, they overtook Madrid. Barcelona were good, they were exceptional.
If they are that fabulous and team think they have improve, they would have done everything to win the Champions League but look at Real Madrid mistake from beginning to the end of their season, they lack importance of defenders, they were losing too much that it was affecting everything they were doing. Not to forget about Mbape adaption in the team, his first two month was chaos, he was struggling to make goals, someone that was once the best in France. This is why I think Barcelona aren't that different.
So, because a team did not win the Champions League, it means they were not good. Even when they got to the semi-finals of the Champions League and won every single trophy in Spain? Flick took a team that struggled the previous season and turned them into a force to be reckoned with in his first season, and you're trying to downplay them?
People talk about injuries like Barcelona did not struggle with their own injuries throughout last season. Mbappe was the European golden boot winner, meaning he was the highest goal scorer in all the leagues in Europe yet you say he couldn't score goals?
Barcelona are different, very different. I don't know how next season will be, but as for last season, Barcelona were simply too good for Madrid.