During the last years, Barcelona should have strong
decisions in the coming months, although the performance and the titles which
gave him the name of the world’s best team, if he wanted to fight to maintain
its position in the world of football.
The coach and the players, officials and even the philosophy
of play, everyone becomes vulnerable to criticism when the team loses zero / 4,
as a result that Barcelona returned from Munich in the first leg of the
semi-final of the Champions League against Bayern.
"End of an era" and” historic defeat “and
"sweeping" and "mortal," was some of the adjectives used by
the press all over the world to describe the current situation of the team that
achieved between 2008 and 2012, under the leadership of Josep Guardiola 14
titles and Impressive football.
Unless Barcelona achieve a "miracle" at the Camp
Nou stadium in the words of captain Xavi Hernandez, the face of the Champions
League will confirm that something has ended within the group which has
dominated Spanish and European ball in recent years.
The star of the team warned Lionel Messi, who did not do
anything yesterday Tuesday at the Allianz Arena stadium: "It is very
difficult, but we must try to compensate, and if we cannot, we should think
about the next season."
But thinking about next season means making important
decisions in the team seemed clear symptoms of mental and physical exhaustion.
Argentine star concealed by its goals the deficiencies in
the team over the past few months, until his injury which caused the beginning
of April in the ring alarm bells.
One of the most important tasks in the next season, It will
be restored best levels Messi, but the more importantly for the team is to find
solutions to other centers.
According to the Catalan press, the club will put for sale
Chilean Alexis Sanchez and Spain's David Villa, but the list of candidates for
departure may widen in the coming weeks.
The performance of players such as Gerard Pique, Cesc
Fabregas was not the expected during the last season. The midfielder walked
away, the guest usual gossip magazines for its association with the Colombian
singer Shakira, for the player who broke his talents with Guardiola, while not
involved midfielder ever in Munich, so far did not succeed in occupying a fixed
place in the primary selection.
As Barcelona has been suffering since years of shortages in
the center of the defense, which needs to player be able to cover problems
caused by injuries, against Bayern, he had to pay Marc Partra, who does not
enjoy the experience of big matches.
Xavi acknowledged Tuesday that possession of the ball, the
essential characteristic of the way Barcelona played, was
"ineffective." Barcelona still owns the ball, but he lacks the
required depth.
Make adjustments to the method, to find alternatives, or to
take a decision on the go and come, all those decisions relates primarily Tito
Vilanova, Guardiola's assistant for years, and his successor in 2012. Nevertheless,
coach underwent in December last year after surgery to recurrence of throat
cancer, and he had to leave his duties in the hands of his assistant Jordi
Rora.
Villanova, who does not speak to the media and hides the
scar neck resulting from surgery and behind the scarf, Must bypass the athlete
test on the part of the club and the players, and perhaps also personal and
family test, as Guardiola said the time of his departure hair less dense and
more gray hair, the training of Barcelona " drains a lot.”
And Barcelona needs six points only to win La Liga secured
him almost, but a negative sense of team at the end of the season, the results
in front of powerful competitors this season retreating, where he had three
defeats as well as two draws and a victory and a single in front of Real
Madrid, and won once and lost like in front of Milan, tied twice against Paris
Saint-Germain, and finally a humiliating loss to Bayern.
"Renewal or death", a Spanish-known proverb, but
in football elite, regeneration means investing a great deal of money,
according to the Brazilian press, club president Sandro Rosell Catalans already
he spent a lot of money to contract with one player is Neymar.
The situation is a test as well as the director of sports
for the team, goalkeeper previous Andoni Zubizarreta, who for the bizarre was
the first has sacrificed after the defeat of Barcelona zero / 4 against Milan
in the Champions League final in 1994, which served as the end of the coach
Dutch Johan Cruyff.
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