Barcilliant
Senior Member
Well deserved misery. His appointment was pure arrogance on all levels.
"Hey, look at us, we don't care about being top of the table for 3 seasons in a row, ANYONE can win La Liga with Messi. We show no consideration to the aging squad situation and misfitting or perma injured players that the board keeps buying without talking to the coaches. Why u no win CL? We have top 3 squad in the world, only manager is holding us back."
What happened to that? Went from that to "next season is Madrid's as well" and total implosion with players speaking out against Setien left and right in less than 20 games.
Club is done at this point. Dream on about rebuilding. Club was financially running on fumes and borrowing money for transfers well before Covid. Now Covid killed at least 20 % of Barca's total revenues (matchday income). Even in a healthy financial position replacing Messi, Suarez, Pique, Busquets, Alba, Rakitic etc. was going to be tough, now it's going to be impossible. Getting 30 year old Pjanic to balance the books tells you all you need to now about Barca's financial troubles.
AC Milan 2.0 at this point.
Next season is a write off and it will take another two to three seasons to rebuild after that. Due to financial constraints its going to be very difficult.
Worst case scenario we end up like Utd and struggle for another 6-7 years.
One thing for sure alot of the bandwagon fans are going to disappear.
I think it's time Messi left the club. Why waste his time at a dysfunctional club. Would be interesting to see him at City or Inter.