I wish I could be more optimistic but that loss was a bit unsettling to me. The only thing that can really save this club right now is just Neymar, Messi and Suarez all magically staying fit and in form all season and dragging this team to the finish line. Here's a few thoughts I've had:
-The proverbial roosters are coming home and the willy-nilly, nostalgic dreamland fantasy that pushes this club forward nowadays is creating a lot of structural problems to the team. New coaches, new players, new tactics won't do any good until we truly identify a long-term plan for this club. The board and the players are suffering from delusions of grandeur right now instead of being honest with what is going on with the club. Its clear that Zubi, Barto and co. really don't have a real vision for where this club is going in the future and are doing nothing more than plugging stopgaps and sticking their heads in the sand, hoping money will magically fix this club. So until we have a real cohesive long term plan for what this club is going to do on the sporting side of things, its impossible for us to achieve our true potential. The way this club is being run right now seems awfully familiar to precisely the team who is on top right now no more than a decade ago: Real Madrid. After dominating the game for the last 5 years on the back of their homegrown legend in the likes of Raul, to fill the gap they decided to usher in the Galactico era and it ended up in disappointment after disappointment and they grew further away from the winning identity that made them great in the late 90s. We are in an extremely similar situation right now and whats frustrating is that its all because we have abandoned certain principles that were the foundation of our success
-The real truth in the manner is that with all of ^^ that considered, it is inevitable that this is how things will go until 2016 at least and there isn't much Lucho can do about it. Right now, Lucho is trying to do a lot of good things but there is so much negative inertia right now that it is nearly impossible to overcome. Over the last five years, we pushed away the man who gave this club unparalleled success but then thought we could still do the things he did with the same sort of results. It makes me sick to my stomach that right now I enjoy watching Bayern more than Barca, mainly because of a lack of willing to adapt and be flexible.
-This club needs people right now that are honest with the direction this club is heading and can realize that just doing a few simple, intuitive things that make sporting clubs succeed is all this club needs.