Is the era of fc Barcelona over?

Never in the past, someone questioned Barcelona’s dignity but in September 2020 when FC Barcelona suffered the heaviest loss in their history, sports magazine Mundo Deportivo wrote and I quote “Shameful end of cycle”.
so let’s understand what they meant by this.

After winning the treble in the 2014-15 season, Barcelona had always been looking like their shadow. Their fans face embarrassment after the embarrassment in terms of results. It is safe to say that they were all historic humiliation and every match now feels like it leaves a question on Barcelona dignity and when we talk about FC Barcelona we talk about one of the best football clubs in the world who always play this game in different style which is famously known as Tiki-Taka. Defeats like 3-0 at Rome, 4-0 at Anfield, 8-2 to Bayern Munich left fans of FC Barcelona shocked and disheartened.

So let’s dive into this and understand the reason for the downfall of one of the biggest football clubs in the world.

The main reason behind that is the MANAGEMENT of the FC Barcelona who govern this club It’s easy to say that Barcelona was governed by some cowards like Josep Maria Bartomeu who put this club into immense debt amounting to €1.2billion, out of which €700 million is reportedly short-term debt.

Barcelona had done some of the poorest signings in their club’s history over the past 6 years, Barcelona is always been the club who trust in their la Masia(youth academy) graduates but under him, we never looked at them they always try to find some lucrative stars for the team who even didn’t fit into clubs philosophy and comes with high wages and hefty transfer fees and some of the prime examples of these signings are Philipe Coutinho which cost them around €120 millions plus variables which is reportedly said that this figure goes €145-160 million another one is Antoine Griezmann who comes for a similar type of transfer fee followed by Kevin- Prince Boateng, Arda Turan, Nelson Semedo, Malcom, Andre Gomes and the list doesn’t end here.
Besides signing wrong players under him FC Barcelona signed a manager called Ernesto Valverde who has a big hand in all those defeats but as a coach what people expected from him, he fails to deliver that, he never trust La Masia graduates and never given them fair chances and also he got his tactics wrong on many big occasions despite winning 2 league titles back to back and 1 Copa Del Rey and after when he got sacked in mid-season Board again took a wrong decision and they replace him with Quique Setien who was in charge of 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich.

Another reason for club downfall is offering high wages and giving massive contracts to all players, in my view this is one of the reasons the club is in this financial crisis it is reported that Barcelona 70%of income goes by paying players wages. In FC Barcelona every player is on considerable huge wages which put the club in a difficult state and in November 2020 club was in a position of going bankrupt. But Bartomeu great achievements don’t end here he also managed to piss the best player in the club history named Lionel Messi when he did fake promises to the captain and after 2019-20 season when he wanted to leave he doesn’t allow him to leave and even Lionel Messi himself bashed him in an interview and said there is no sporting project and leadership in the club and also Bartomeu caught on some occasions when he publicly tries to demoralize players image and make them look bad.

But now FC Barcelona fans can take a deep breath because their club is in safe hands and under the leadership of Joan Laporta who won the club election in March 2021 and became the new president of FC Barcelona and as a football fan I also hope we can see that FC Barcelona type of football again.