Like I said, great post. There are some things still I do not agree. E.g non scoring wingers- stats of this season tells something different and I also would not say they lack speed. But, of course, they have their limits, but I think Neymar has very important role to play to overcome this.
Anyhow, this eternal idioliziation of Pep and golden era is getting out of hand. To use a word "spoiled" might be a strecth and also it has been used a bit overwhelmingly to point a finger to some posters here, but really, Barca cannot have a golden era non-stop. owever, this has been said again and again, no news here. My concern is that this "golden era" serves as a measure for every single game that Barca plays. You can't be pragmatic nowadays, you can not grind out results, no, no, this is Barca and we have to trash every parking bus, we have to run over every opponent in Copa, La Liga and CL group stages, otherwise we are doomed etc etc. At the same time same people are overjoyed if we manage to win against Madrid Real even if we play pragmatically and rely on a bit of luck. Hypocrisy?
Let's face it- we are in transition and so far we are doing it by still competing for trophies and still winning games and still producing some magic here and there. We have been extremely lucky to see some unbelieveable things couple a years ago but as always things change and you have to adapt as well. It could be much much worse, but I really do not see much patience in this forum, everything should delivered into gold as it once was in point blank and in blink of the eye, otherwise it is incompetence or just averageness.