FC Barcelona: Why can’t Barcelona fans get excited?

It was sung that Barça would go through a difficult transition when Messi left the Camp Nou. Nobody would have doubted it before, but that loss seems to have been overlooked too quickly. As if learning to live without the best player in your history wasn’t enough, the departure caught Barça by surprise and with a significant hole in their pocket. From there, the most absolute

so dark The season could seem, and in fact almost was, lost in the first third of the course. But… what if tomorrow is more important than today? What if having hit rock bottom has allowed Barça to start building something coherent for the future? The team, it is evident, as much as some do not want to see it, has made a qualitative leap with the arrival of Xavi. And it is inevitable that the culé now goes through a phase of hope, illusion and even enjoyment. His Barça is playing well again, the results are finally here and there are a handful of important names on which to build something beautiful and ambitious. The culé can get excited because

, in addition to being a showman, was the president who led the best Barça in history. It should not be forgotten. He manages the scene like few others and he is not Bartomeu. And that already ensures improvement. The culé must get excited because

He is a sports director with capital letters. He has done wonders in the winter market ‘signing’ Adama and Aubameyang at a bargain price, investing in one of the players destined to lead Spanish football in the next ten years such as Ferran and other key movements such as the departure of Coutinho or renewals of young talents. Difficult to do so much in such a short time. The culé can and must get excited about

. More would be missing. He recovers his style, he has a coach who knows what he wants and what Barça wants. The positioning of the team has improved tremendously and the team is recognizable, with a clear plan and a very defined style, regardless of who plays. The culé is almost forced to get excited about the wide range of young promises that today are already players with a lot of important footballers. The

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if the injuries respect him, they are the base of the Barça of the future but they are already the base of the Barça of the present. His learning process is going very fast, forced by circumstances, and this will have repercussions in a more immediate future than, at first, could be intuited. The culé, by the way, knows exactly where Barça is: eliminated from the Champions League at first, eliminated from the Cup and 15 points behind Real Madrid in the League. Repeating it every week is not going to lead Barça to a permanent crisis.

. And winning and scoring goals in Europe, regardless of the competition, has NEVER been easy. A Europa League or fourth place is not going to fix a disastrous season. But if a team comes out of this year that knows what it’s playing, that recovers its style and returns to its origins, perhaps, only perhaps,

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