re: Barcelona. Is. Screwed. (Update 1-18-24 on page 3)

In addition to their spending being slahed earlier this year by La Liga, and in addition to their recent 4-1 defeat to Real, Barca is facing a locker room and existential crisis.

Barcelona’s leadership problem leaves them short on confidence – and character

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The mood in the dressing room, especially among the squad’s younger players and academy graduates, was hit hard. And it is a dressing room that has already had the feeling of reaching rock bottom several times this season.

The group fear this latest low will not be their last — that if things don’t change, there will be more days like Sunday. This is what players said in a specially arranged team meeting with their coaching staff held before training on Tuesday, in the build-up to the trip tonight (Thursday) to third-tier Unionistas Salamanca in the Copa del Rey’s last 16.

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This squad, looking through the names and weighing the quality of each individual, should be capable of competing to retain their domestic title. Instead, they are eight points off the top in fourth place (albeit with a game in hand on leaders Girona and Athletic Bilbao in third), and are playing way below their abilities.

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If they miss the CL this year, I can summarize their organization with a single gif:

I know I'm ready to see their fricking arse crash. So many years of tapping up players