Barça is in a transition season. The events of recent months have not stopped ratifying it. The club’s first men’s team, sporting and economic engine, is playing in the Europa League for the first time in 18 years and accepted before the holidays that the goal in the League would not be to win it but to use it as a springboard for to regain the place lost in the Champions League. After the traumatic farewell of Leo Messi, the culmination of the disastrous management of the previous term, Barça hit rock bottom and are using the current campaign to regenerate. “We are coming back,” says Joan Laporta, a kind of optimist, whenever he has the opportunity. This gerund is the most constructive way to admit that, contrary to what the club’s centenary history says, now is not the time to prioritize important titles, but the way – the transition – to be able to play them again.
