Barca lost again. In the 10th round of La Liga on 28 October, Barca lost 1-0 away to Vallecano, the first time in 19 years that Barca lost to Vallecano, after which Barca finished 9th with 15 points (since the 2002-2003 season, Barca have never been outside the 9th place in the 10 rounds). In the last 7 games, 4 league games have lost 3, three Champions League games have lost twice, and the qualifying situation is worrying.
Barca lost to Vallecano in a rare way
At that time, the once dream of Three Bassa had unlimited scenery, and the golden generation of La Masia, led by Messi, Harvey and Xiao bai, brought Barça to an unprecedented height. During his 17 seasons with Barca, Messi won 35 titles for the team, including 10 titles in the league, and the national derby detonated football, creating classic matches such as 5:0, 6:2 and suppressing their rivals Real Madrid. In the Champions League, Barca have won four of Barca's five champions, and it is important to know that Barca's only previous Champions League title was in the distant 1992. In 2009 and 2015, Messi, as the absolute core of the front, led Barca to win the unprecedented six and five crowns, which is invincible in the universe. In barca's 21 years, Messi has made 778 appearances, scored 672 goals and has 305 assists, and is the top scorer and assist king in Barca's history.
Messi's extraordinarily long peak made Barca
However, Barca's heavy dependence on Messi is likely to put Barca on a long road to reconstruction.
Messi's super long peak was a double-edged sword
Messi's anti-heavenly performance has brought Barca countless honors, but his super long peak period has also made many young La Masia young talents lose the opportunity to emerge, once the talented players Azurin, Rafinha, Dos Santos Jr., Muñeza, Hefren, Deulofeu... For a long time, he did not get the opportunity to play, either ran away from other teams, or disappeared from the crowd in the second line, and failed to replicate the good story of Xiao Luo inheriting Messi.
Born in 1994, Deulofeu was once known as the "German Emperor, Bai Xiaoluo"
Messi's formidable ability masks Barca's problems
Xavi and Xiaobai have contributed no less to Barcelona than Messi, but due to their age, their status has been seriously declining since 2014, as can be seen from the 2014 World Cup Spain group stage exit. But in 2015, with the MSN group led by Messi, it swept across the European battlefield, stepping on several other major league titles to win the Champions League and winning five. This made the club executives and coaches overly optimistic, ignoring the reconstruction of the midfield in the post-Xavi and Xiaobai eras, and did not make tactical adjustments, still insisting on passing control play, resulting in the team's deterioration later, although Messi was still high-profile, constantly taking the Golden Boot, Golden Ball, Lawrence Award, and constantly winning the league championship and the Copa del Rey for Barca, but after 2015, he never touched the Champions League. If Messi had emulated Harvey and Xiaobai in the rapids, Barca's today might be a different story.
Coman: Messi covers up all of Barcelona's problems!
Messi became a bargaining chip for the president of the competing club
Messi's strong influence has made him a chip for the president of the competing club, from Bartomeu to Laporta, without exception, will renew Messi as the biggest chip for the president of the competing club, which seems to be the best guarantee of the team's performance, as for improving the club's accounting situation, improving the specific measures of the team, etc., no one has asked.
Faint Barça club president Bartomeu (left)
Messi's father, Jorge, was greedy and ignorant
As we all know, Barça's financial situation in recent years is very bad, according to Barça officials, in the 2020-2021 season, the club lost a total of 484 million euros, the net debt of the club increased by 5.14 euros in the past three years, the club's net debt was 1.35 billion euros, of which the salary increased by 61% in 3 years, and the total after-tax salary reached 320 million euros, the highest for major clubs, of which Messi's total after-tax annual salary was 50 million euros, the highest in the world. It can be seen that wages are an important indicator of Barca's accounting situation. Barca's contract with Messi talks about such a high annual salary, the specific details of which we do not know, but it is certainly related to Barca's excessive dependence on Messi, Bartomeu's fainting and Jorge's greed. Jorge had been living in the Argentinian slums before Messi arrived in Barcelona, with poor knowledge and experience, and suddenly became the recorder of the world's top superstars, obviously unworthy, asking for such an amazing annual salary, it was simply a rat's eye, exhausting and fishing. This directly led to barca's total salary remaining high, Barça fell into the quagmire of the accounting crisis, coupled with a series of reasons such as Bartomeu's low management level, poor level of reinforcements and the new crown epidemic, which eventually led to Barça's inability to renew Messi's contract, resulting in a lose-lose situation.
Jorge (right)
Teenage stepped on the seven-colored clouds, thirty years old but left with regrets, Messi did not succeed in composing a fairy tale of choosing a city to grow old, but he and Barca have achieved each other. May Messi not forget barca's kindness, barca not forget Messi's dedication to the best years of more than ten years, and be well with each other!