Barcelona seem promising in the next season, because they were the champion last season, even I can’t use that as a reason to say they will do the same thing next season, but the thing is that Barcelona already has good players and the coach is really a experience one. While Real Madrid on the other hand have changed their coach which is Xabi Alonso, so this make me think things will become new to Real Madrid, because of the new strategy that the coach will be introducing to them. so I’m thinking this may take time before they adapt to it which will delay their progress in the competition.
Yea they look promising as you said it is now obvious because their major rivals which Realmadrid isn't really encouraging in their performance unless we will be experiencing some improvement as next season will be kick starting very soon, Barcelona did extremely well last season with the financial crisis that made it impossible for them to get some sophisticated players to their team, they managed what they had which made them to win the two important trophy in their domestic league last season and I think that's a good one for but the thing is we can't actually tell what happens this season because apart from Realmadrid, we never can tell, there might be force cimg from unsuspecting teams, for now xabi has not improved Realmadrid yet, we still see those lapses that was their last season although we are hoping for possible changes when the league starts.