Bar-ce-lona!

Cabaye Captain said:
Messi has to go. Yeye ndio shida. Naskia if he doesnt like you huwesplay
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Barca rebuilding has to start top down. The board itself is full of clowns. For example they have sold Arthur a 23yr old player and bought pjanic 30yr old and have made many other moronic decisions.
Then after board the coach and his staff and old players who are out of form.
Personally I believe Messi can stay because he is still world class despite today's results.
I believe Xavi and Koeman refused to coach Barca because of the board. I also expect several top coaches to refuse the job because of the current board
 
Barcelona: What next after their humiliating 8-2 defeat by Bayern Munich?
Barcelona have ended 2019-20 without a major trophy


Barcelona have ended 2019-20 without a major trophy


It was a night of utter humiliation for Barcelona as they went out of the Champions League after a crushing defeat by Bayern Munich.

Pundits called their 8-2 quarter-final loss "pathetic and embarrassing", while Spanish football writer Guillem Balague said Barca's proud heritage had been "thrown in the bin".

Long-serving defender Gerard Pique did not hold back after the match, saying changes were needed - amid widespread reports boss Quique Setien, who has only been in the job since January, would be sacked.


'Not all Setien's fault'

"You cannot be humiliated like this as Barcelona manager. And this is what it is - an absolute humiliation."
Quique Setien led Real Betis to their highest finish since 2005 and to the Copa del Rey semis before leaving in the summer of 2019

Quique Setien led Real Betis to their highest finish since 2005 and to the Copa del Rey semis before leaving in the summer of 2019

Balague said it was unfair to lay all the blame with Setien, and argued Friday's surrender was the consequence of "many years of decline" at Barca.

"He was fourth choice when he was appointed," Balague told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"This was his third game in the Champions League ever. But it was not his fault he was chosen and it is not fully his fault what is happening.

"Nobody has been intelligent enough to identify what is happening. Barcelona is so political and the players run the show."

Who is in the frame to replace Setien?
Former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino and ex-Everton manager Ronald Koeman have been linked with Barcelona.

Koeman, manager of the Netherlands since 2018, spent six years as a player at Barca from 1989-1995, while Pochettino has not had a job since being sacked by Spurs in November 2019.

"Pochettino is available and he is somebody who understands the side," said Balague.
"Club president Josep Maria Bartomeu and Pochettino are friends."

'Rotten to the core'
Barcelona have not won the Champions League since 2014-15.
West said Bartomeu had to take responsibility for the club's decline.

"To make things worse - and again this lies at Bartomeu's door - the club is beset by severe financial problems which will make the task of strengthening in the transfer window almost impossible," he said.

"In fact, Barça are looking to sell rather than buy, and several senior players - including Ivan Rakitic, Arturo Vidal and maybe even Suarez - could leave in the coming weeks.
"The club is rotten to the core, and that starts at the top."


Just how bad was it for Barcelona?
  • The loss is their heaviest in European competition, surpassing the 6-2 defeat by fellow Spanish side Valencia in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in September 1962.
  • They have conceded eight goals in a match for the first time since an 8-0 defeat by Sevilla in April 1946.
  • The defeat is the first time they have lost by a six-goal margin since April 1951, when they were beaten 6-0 by Espanyol in a league match.
  • This is the fastest a team has ever conceded four goals in a Champions League knockout match since Bayern put four past Porto in 36 minutes in the 2014-15 quarter-final second leg.
  • This is their first season without a major trophy since 2013-14.
 
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