Well it would be a start to a) focus on the young players instead of ignoring them and b) not asking for more old players. Reports said Valverde wanted 30yo Willian. If he got him he would probably play him instead of Dembele now, making the team even older. Vidal was another addition making the squad older even after miraculously getting rid of Paulinho.
But of course the squad is more a topic for Barto and his puppets. Same as the coach, i mean nobody can blame Valverde for taking the job if anything people should be angry at the ones who offered it.
We are doing good financially but besides that they pretty much made everything worse. But we all knew that, yet people voted for him again and what we currently see is the result. Thats what Barto made out of Barca. Its honestly just sad.
About young players, we need YOUNG and GOOD players, not only young players.
So:
1. good, but old players are having problems in terms of pace, stamina and motivation
2. young and good players are awesome, except in terms of experience
3. young but not good players are not the answer at all. That is Europa league level of quality. Usually even worse.
In fact, usually, a good but old player is way more useful than a young and average player.
Regarding our young players, we don't know whether they are YOUNG and GOOD.
For now, all we know is that they are young.
The other thing is that fans are hoping and dreaming that Dembele, Malcom, Arthur, Alena, Puig will turn to be both YOUNG and GOOD.
I have wrote a lot of times, that is statistically almost impossible.
If two of them will turn out to be Barca's potential, that will be a success.
So, guys who are dreaming about all 5 of them making it here will probably need to tune down their expectations and dreams a lot.
How will we see whether youngsters are good?
1. through training grounds
2. and matches, of course
The change I am talking about does not necessarily equal to forcing the current board out. Honestly I am not sure whether the next group of people will be better or more competent. I am talking about having a clearer and better vision for our future, planning early for a post-Messi Barca, doing something about the declining squad (we are getting worse and worse) and hiring competent managers and sporting people to handle the sporting aspect of our club (from sporting directors to scouts to La Masia folks etc.).
Certainly it is easy for me to say and certainly it is easier said than done but still, if our big-wigs don't sense a sense of crisis than we are not far away from a real crisis.
Last year we got lucky so many times. Mostly Real Madrid fumbled so hard and handed us the league. Most of us know we didn't play well most of the time, despite being able to squeeze out many wins. We can't keep going down this path any more.
Our commercial success came with our success on the pitch. If we can't deliver, our money will drain too.
1. about a manager, they probably thought that EV will be a good Barca's DNA choice, who will successfully continue to play our style with players whom we have
2. about board's clear vision for the future and for the era after Messi, imo, they tried.
They bought Dembele, Malcom, Arthur, Lenglet, Denis, Gomes, Umtiti, Digne, Paco, and gave chances to Deulofeu, Munir, Alena, Puig.
On paper, that is 13 young players over the last 28 Months.
In reality, a problem is that majority of these players have already turned into flops, and the others will turn out to be flops during this season.
So, the board really tried to rejuvenate the squad.
The problem is: the players on whom they placed their bets (picks from director Robert) were usually bad picks.
So, the board and directors surely did try.
But bought the wrong young players.
