You started this theory about Barca cheating with foreign talent and ended up naming pretty much HG talent. You are trying to find bad things where there are none. Every big club in Europe does the same thing.
Why were we the first one in the world then with the ban?
1. Either FIFA/UEFA hate us
2. Or all big clubs are breaking the rules with youth players but we were breaking it the most
An analogy is: you know how Psg was spending too much on transfers and wages so Uefa had to impose some fair play restrictions regarding how much you could spend in one summer.
You could say that at least 5-6 big teams are doing that.
But Psg was breaking that rule the most signing Neymar and Mbappe in one summer iirc.
So, you see, what Psg/City were doing with oil money and transfers, we were doing with youths and La Masia.
Iirc, back then there were some numbers floating around about how many offenses each club made regarding youths.
And majority of big clubs made offenses, but iirc, they had like 13, 20 or 25 offenses.
Barca had something like 80 offenses.
Anyway, this topic is an example what I hate with football fans.
They decline to accept bad things about their legends or things which they love.
For years it was a blasphemy to write any bad things about Pep.
Pep was God.
All of his defeats with Bayern and City were bad luck, bad fits, refs, individual mistakes etc.
It was never him.
I mean, he created a golden era, he can't be wrong.
Today, half of the fans get angry if you say that current Messi is a tactical mess and not a difference maker at all anymore.
And now you have this La Masia example.
Majority of fans are probably angry about these posts because they don't want to read about La Masia and cheating.
For them, La Masia is a fairytale place from our past where the best things in our past happened due to a hard work, knowledge and skills. No cheating, shady things, monopol and other bad things happened.
You can also be a Barca's fan and accept that magic rarely happens and usually the richest (Barca, Psg, Bayern, Juve) teams win.
Or the most corrupted teams win (Real, Juve).
Where there is a lot of money involved, there are usually tons of shady things.
For a few years we were selling shit about mes que un club, only to return later to Galacticos strategy, cheating enormously on Ney's transfer, getting helped by Nike with Brasilian players, money laundering under Laporta and Gaspart, tax frauds by top players, cheating on La Masia.
I am not saying that we are bad guys.
But we surely ain't the good guys, lol.
All big clubs are cheaters, corrupted, full of shady deals, money laundering, bending the rules in 100s of ways.
Fifa and Uefa are also insanely corrupted from bottom to top.
That's life, that's money talk.
All in all, we broke the highest number of rules in the world regarding our youth academy.
Sorry to burst "La Masia is an honest, happy and magical place" bubble.
La Masia is a top academy, paired with lots of money invested, breaking the rules and monopolizing the world.
Without it, today it's = "it is what it is"
