Why do you think everyone here hates Bartomeu? Because he spent all that money on shit players like Coutinho, Grizmann or overrated players like Dembele who are always injured.
Where you don't make any sense is blaming this on Xavi.
Bayern has been managed way better than Barca under Bartomeu. Laporta and Xavi are trying to improve the situation and get us back to compete, but between our financial problems and La Liga fighting against us, it's gonna take time and money.
That's all there is to it.
It's not rocket science. The main reason for the current problems is the ruinous presidency of Bartomeu. A Presidency that left the club in shambles financially, with a depleted squad filled with overpriced bums and amigos on insane wages. We are now trying to improve the situation, and we are improving this season, by winning our first major title in 3 years.
You can't compare the squad we have with elite teams like Bayern, Madrid, who have been run expertly all these years.
I wasn't blaming it on xavi or laporta in that part of the post, thought it was pretty self-explanatory.
You literally mentioned Bayern having 200m+ worth of defenders (ignoring they were purchased over 4 seasons) and then only mention Kounde in 22/23 being bought in defence to infer we haven't spent as much as they have and are poor and xavi has been somehow hamstrung by not having a 200x super team instead of a 100x super team against most other teams. You keep harping on about amounts spent but that was just highlighting it doesn't mean much and those stats were for lols more than any genuine response to highlight the remarks and defence you want to take to protect xavi.
We genuinely spent more than bayern in the same time frame since xavi and laporta have come in while getting Christensen, balde and Arujo who were basically free and imo (some) are better and may command a higher fee in the market than their Bayern counterparts. Spending isn't a valid excuse to lose and draw to teams who have inferior squads to us eg CL and EL.
The state of the club im well aware of how fucked we are, We are recovering but mistakes have been made in the transfer market with positions not being addressed and targets being mis-profiled. We didnt need torres, we didnt need a high risk transfer for lewy for 45m+ and an insane salary at his age. Kounde is not it for me, Raphina is not a good fit for the style xavi wants to play and is being misused (while still delivering decent results).
You should also know that I've been anti barto and valverde since I've been on this forum because of nuances. Valverdedists use to ignore any context and make the same arguments you make for xavi by justifying the result and ignoring all else.
I'd personally be way more inclined to not be as harsh on xavi if we didnt sell future revenue to splurge on signings for a novice manager who has made some big mistakes in high stakes games. I genuinely dont know how you can watch the games and not think this is basically Atletico Madrid stuff against teams whith 1% of the budget (would just like to make it clear against better teams im not judging being more defensive). Its all the nuance that makes me think xavi is the limiting factor in this team. He's doing an ok job at best and ill leave it at that.
forgot about this one, yikes
