Oh balls, I did indeed, I'll pin this. Apologies one and all, laziness on my part, I didn't finish this video until about half 1 in the morning last night but still very poor. Please forgive me, skip that bit, and I hope you can enjoy the video nonetheless!
The Establishment there was a 10 million euro difference in transfers. If that was the reason they used they are either lying or completely incompetent
@@jonny26281 they are lying thats how books are balanced barca exaggerated their profit from the deal while juve got a better player for agreeing to lie
They haven't made a truly great (here I'm excluding De Jong and Lenglet who has been good and probably will become even better) signing since 14/15 where they signed Ter Stegen and Luis Suarez. That says a lot.
it's precisely the opposite: Messi was the one destroying Barcelona with his crazy salary, while his performance has been totally mediocre during the last years....
We all wanted La Porta but Bartomeu rigged the elections,you dont think the socios were actually dumb enough to pick that clown?When we get La Porta back I hope we can make a rebuttal🤞
So Bartomeu was the head of the Barca basketball team when they failed miserably and went to become the head of the whole Barca team and then Barca football team got destroyed. This man is a failure at everything
Yet, still gets hired for top jobs. That's the state of the world: failures get highly rewarded. So what does that tell you about the people who dishes them out?
@@56postoffice that is because Barcelona has a democratic type of structure. If it had a corporate type of structure Bartemeu would have been sacked after his basketball team failure. In a corporate type Barcelona, Raul Saniheili (Director of Football at Arsenal) would have been the director of Football at Barcelona and the president would been none other the prodigy himself, Ferran Soriano (CEO of CITY FOOTBALL GROUP) Ferran Soriano was the youngest person to be ever be in a Barcelona board. He literally dreamed of making Barcelona what City Football Group is today. But due to bureaucracy & Office politics his ideas given a deaf ear and he resigned from VP in 2008. So this damage of Barca is a systematic procedure is due to incompetent leadership for a decade. If Messi mancity deal goes through then the credit of that goes 50% to pep & 50% Soriano.
@@hunkraven8465 he wasn't useless he felt the trainer didn't want to start him so he wasn't pushing himself to get better. In the national team Tite seems will start him every game so his performances are solid
Hunk Raven84 Arthur was supposed to be Barca’s next Xavi and play with De Jong to control the middle. When they traded him, that’s when I knew this club had no ambitions or end goals.
Well, destroying Barcelona is same as destroy the Spanish national team, so Spain wouldn't be playing euros or world Cup no more and until Barcelona is fixed
Just to touch on the start of the video; Valdés wasn’t the keeper for the 14-15 season, he had left the club. It was Claudio Bravo in the league and Ter Stegen in the Cup competitions.
Basshen No he said that was the 11 in Bartomeu’s first full season which was 14-15. Valdés didn’t play a single minute in 14-15, Bravo was the keeper from August 2014 onwards in the league.
Nah I'd say pogba started it. Bale and neymar were reasonable for there abilities they've completely paid off. Bale directly helped in the UCL titles and neymar has made PSG a global brand. Pogba has done nothing but just show up once every third game when he's not injured. Nothing against him he's a good player just too overpriced
Filip he promised them a UCL, he’s leaving Barcelona without doing anything, Cristiano left Real Madrid as a champion and a true hero. He wasn’t a false hero. Messi swore with his own words that he would bring a UCL to us Barcelona fans and he failed us and now he quits
At least the board at Barcelona will change in a year whereas clubs like united arsenal and ac Milan they are stuck with the owners for next coming years
"He somehow managed to crash a Ferrari in the middle of the desert". I once heard this said of Daniel Passarella, who, as president, mismanaged argentine giants River Plate so bad, they got relegated to the second division. Now, Barcelona´s crisis isn´t quite THAT bad, but I feel the comparisson still fits.
*long read* I saw this video last week and I avoided it because I figured there would be a lot of missing parts to this video. You did a good job explaining the inner machinations of Barcelona but there are things to expand upon. I’ll elaborate: 1. Ronaldinho wasn’t Laporta’s man, he was actually Rosell. I think if nothing else, that was the reason Laporta teamed up with Rosell, because he had a lot of contacts and could get deals done. By that same token, however, Rosell was and still is of the idea that football belongs to the players as opposed to managers or an actual project or philosophy of doing things. Remember this, as it will be important later. When Laporta’s project was just staring out with Txiki as sporting director and Rijkaard as manager, Rosell was adamant that he wanted to get rid of Puyol, Xavi and Valdés and bring in Brazilians like Luis Fabiano, Baptista and others. Getting rid of la masía graduates to bring in superstars, sound familiar? Thankfully, Laporta chose to listen to Cruyff and not Rosell. Rosell ended up stepping down and doing what you mentioned. 2. Mundo Deportivo, a very influential newspaper based on Barcelona, who CLAIM to be pro Barça, but are actually in cohoots with Rosell and his cronies (like Bartomeu, who we’ll get to later) were the ones leading the smear campaign against Laporta, saying that he had misappropriated funds and was a pro independence nationalist and was using the club to further his agenda, to the detriment of the sport. This despite the fact that under Laporta, he had made profesional several of the sporting sections of the club and had won a lead and champions league double as recently as 2006. This was in 2008z 3. That same year, Bartomeu was quoted as saying “Hay que erradicar el cruyfismo e introducir ideas nuevas” or “We need to eradicate Cruyffism” and introduce new ideas.” Most people with some sense, understand that the Barcelona way was given to the club by Cruyff. Some call is differently because they don’t want to give credit to Cruyff for reasons I won’t get into now because my comment is long enough as it is. Anyway, people like him and others have been saying that the Barça DNA was obsolete. The philosophy itself wasn’t obsolete, it just wasn’t being executed properly. Bartomeu wanted Mourinho, but Laporta gambled on Pep. 4. You said that selling one of the top players under other regimes was unheard of, well, the first thing Pep did was sell Ronaldinho. Hindsight will say that that was a no brainer, but the move wasn’t popular at the time. He also got rid of Eto’o despite him being the clubs top scorer the year after. However he got rid of them because they were toxic to the group, remember this as well. He got rid of him, as well as others. He implemented several rules and a new training schedule. He gave Messi a new diet, and he magically stopped getting injured every other month. That’s something he will never get credit for, but it is what it is. Pep also successfully develop a way for Iniesta and Xavi to play in the middle together. Under Rijkaard, that never happened because he considered that middle of the park frail defensively. Again, that’s something Pep will never get credit for. They say that it was easy to win with Messi, Xavi and Iniesta but those same players were getting humiliated at the Bernabéu a year before conceding 4 after giving them a guard of honor. 5. After all that, the socio voted Rosell in 2010, that’s when it started to go to shit. Pep will never admit to this, but he left because he didn’t trust Rosell. First, it was him who iniciales the smear campaign against Laporta, whom Pep owes a lot to. He also removed Cruyffs honorary presidency at the club. Txiki also left his charge as sporting director as soon as Rosell won. Furthermore, Rosell also went against the wishes of Guardiola and sold Chigrynsky (or however you spell it) in a signal that would mean the manager was no longer in charge, a basic tenement of Cruyffism. So those were strikes one and two. The final strike was Rosell wanting to sign Neymar in spite of Pep’s wishes he didn’t want that type of player at his club. Not because he’s not talented, but hecause he can be (and is toxic.) He saw the writing on the wall and didn’t renew his contract, but in reality he was ran out the club. Had he stayed, Rosell would have done to him what ended up happening to Valverde, who was basically a puppet. 6. After what happened to Rosell and Bartomeu came in, he just kept carrying Rosell’s wishes, these people are one and the same. Then there is Toby Freiza as well who also thinks like that. It’s not that La Masía has dried up, is that these people have contempt for anything that smells of Cruyff. Thiago was unceremoniously sold without giving him a proper go, as were people like Adama, Samper, and countless others who had enough talent to make it. Nevertheless part of it was the last part. 7. Too much power given to the super stars. I’ll admit Messi is part of the problem. Somewhere along the line he was convinced that the way to win trophies is by having superstars and not trining properly. Under Valverde, the team lost intensity, nevertheless, it was a direct result of the influence of senior players wanting a lower workload, specially after working under Luis Enrique, and Valverde obliged. As a result, the intensity was gradually lost until we saw what we saw against Liverpool. You can’t pretend that it’s a good idea to play at a low intensity all year and think you’re going to win against Klopp’s Liverpool just by having talented players. They don’t press like they did under Pep, they don’t train like that. Many of the players who were there are still starters, not because there aren’t other players capable, but because those same players refuse to give other youngsters a chance. Piqué has been guilty of this several times. Players like Martinez and more recently de Ligt didn’t come to the club over assurances over playing time. They saw that players plays because of the name of the back of the shirt and not performance. When you add it all up, this is what you get. Honestly, I didn’t feel sorry for any senior player during that 2-8 lost. The only one I felt sorry for actually was Ter Stegen, because he’s been a vocal detractor of the way things have been run in the past few years. Him and De Jong who have said this is not the way to run things. Also Setién, who ended up paying the price for other people’s mismanagement. I’ve no doubt he could have been a great manager for Barcelona with humble players who were willing to listen and be coached. Of course Ansu Fati as well, but he’s not a senior player.
You forgot to mention the financial aspect of it all. Bartomeu and his board are personally liable for financial losses of the club. They had to sell Arthur to balance the books of the 19/20 business year, but are already in a hole because of the 70m for Pjanic in the 20/21 business year. That's why they actually want Messi to leave because it would solve all their financial problems before getting voted out next spring. Bartomeu might step down now, but he can't call elections. He needs someone of his board in charge to first cook the books before a new president comes in. The man's a crook.
So with all of the TV rights and merchandising they sell they still can't balance their budget? I mean selling Arthur Melo to balance the their budget it's understandable if you think about it, but signing pjanic it's just plain stupid if you ask me .. But Bartomeu is a man with no vision for the future, if Barca were managed like Bayern they would still have dominant squad and the perfect manager for them ...
@@dedasalmeida9047 Juventus left them no choice. They were shopping players all around Europe. Juve agreed to buy Arthur, but only if Barça would take Pjanic. The Arthur to Juve deal was finalized ahead of June 30th (business year 19/20) so that Bartomeu could balance the books and not be personally liable. The Pjanic to Barça deal on the other hand was finalized after July 1st (business year 20/21). That's why they start the new business year already with a financial hole 70 million deep. Of course Barça make lots of money from TV rights and merchandise, but they also pay higher wages than any other sports team in the world. 70% of the annual budget are just wages for the first team (players and coaching staff)! That's very unhealthy for a club/business. They still owe Liverpool and Dortmund tens of millions for Coutinho and Dembele. Add to that the loss of revenue from ticket sales. Every home game without audience means at least a couple million less. They have spent almost a billion on transfer fees since 2015!!
@@Erich_U why would they want to sell their best player just to balance the 60m loss? They could literally sell anyone else to achieve it. Also you're completely ignoring the fact that messi wants to leave on his own and bartomeu even offered to resign if messi stays. I bet messi just wants another new contract with an even higher salary.
You really explained the situation cleary, thank you for that. A lot of people think we, Barca fans, are over exaggerating when we say that we have been in a crisis for a while and it is just showing recently to the world. Trophies have been covering up the mistakes to people outside the club but Barca fans have been pissed for at least 6 or 7 years now.
If Barca revive their world class youth academy then between that and some shrewd transfers they should be back competing for Champions League finals in no time. I would give it 3 seasons tops.
0:17 - Valdes left the club by then if I'm not mistaken? I believe Bravo would have been the most frequent goalkeeper that season since there was an agreement for him to play in league matches and Ter Stegen to be between the sticks during cup games.
Valdes got injured around March 2014 if i can remember , then he left to join Man Utd and they signed Ter Stegen who you’re right in saying was the cup and European games
The fact that bartomeu was one of the best president for football fans. On his time, We witnessed 6-1 Remondota, 0-3 Roma comeback, 0-4 liverpool comeback & the legendary 8-2. We should be thankful for these greatest moments (except barca fans ofcourse ☻)
Bravo, Alfie. Excellent job. As a Catalan and Barcelona supporter, it's good to find someone explaining the issue so well to English speakers. This board is so bad, that I'm more than happy to let Messi go if this means Bartomeu resigns. We need to go back to our roots and do things well
@@francescganau7679 well only font has shown his sporting ideas with si Al futur, he even has a website. Laporta is relying on his last term, font should win but he needs to keep his xavi obsession at bay and see if koeman does well this year
Thanks for making this video Alfie, it’s my birthday today and I am a Barcelona fan. I love the videos and it brings a smile to my face that you addressed the situation at Barcelona. Thank you so much and keep up the great videos my g!
Actually the best President was NOT Laporta, but Núñez (the longest-serving, from 1978 to 2000). He was responsible for creating the original "Dream Team" and for signings such as Maradona, Ronaldo (the original) and Figo. Everybody hated him in his final years as President, but now, with the benefit of hindsight, it has become clear how great was his relaxed and content style of leadership
Nunez was a legend, and he laid the foundations for the great Barca teams that came afterwards. There have been some criticisms, that he didn't want to spend money in the transfer market, but as you can see, buying Maradona, Ronaldo and Figo (all 3 world players of the year) isn't penny-pinching. The work Nunez did was critical in establishing the "model" - together with the ex-player & coach, Cruyff, they both set the example for later legends such as Guardiola & Rikkard as coaches, with Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, Puyol masterminding the best team ever.
This video made me really appreciate the real goat J.Cruyff. Legendary player and coach. Maradona great player crap manager. Pele great player not a manager. George best great player not a manager. Messi and CR7 amazing players but managers, only time will tell.
"Barcelona is a club that always has the strength to bounce back" - Milan fans' DEJA VU?! 2011/12.. Milan was the most dominant club in Europe in the last 20 years, so this 2, 3 years of crisis is nothing. We'l bounce back! TEN YEARS LATER... GULP!
Not exactly the same. Barcelona have quite some interesting young players in addition to established players. They have the potential to bounce back quicker than people expect
@@haiderthahim3226 with no money and a clueless board....I doubt it. what good players with potential are left ?...vidal, rakitic, meesi, suarez gone.....dont know bout pique... de jong, fati, demebele (if at all) need time and good players to guide... griezmann? had a average season. left back an right back are not top... they need at least 6 good players. Top players wouldnt come...just because why?
Well tbf the player could have been made to stay if convinced well. Neymar knew what was coming and he left. If there was a project to be genuinely excited about then neymar might have stayed.
just because psg activated release clause doesnt mean barca had to give him away.. if that was the case, then likes of messi even if 700m in his prime wouldnt be at barca.. the player has a say in it.. also club can foresee such incidents and define release clause accordingly.. for eg. benzema has release clause of 1 billion.. which means barca has to put neymar in market for others to buy him
Love your videos and work put into them. Had a question and was blessed to see your name again. Just getting a passion about the game again after a hiatus. Its been a joy to gain a deeper understanding of soccer topics.
Loving these mini doco’s, and it’s this kind of content that sets you apart from the rest of the UA-cam Football community. This will probably be an unpopular request, and in all honestly wouldn’t tally up incredible views, but if this does garner some interest, I would love to see your take on the current state of Australian soccer. From the heights of the 2006 World Cup, with legends such as Kewell and Viduka, to the current disastrous state of our local game and our current international crop, I would love to see your take on the matter. On the surface it doesn’t seem all that interesting, but dig deep and you can find mismanagement, training set ups, increased funding of rival nations and a general wane of local interest for the once beautiful game as reasons for Australia current demise into obscurity. Love your content, keep it up!
Doesn't Peter know Lim also own a club in the English football pyramid, I know he has a stake in Salford wth the rest of the class of '92 explaining Neville being appointed at Valencia
@@kyzersoze8408 Actually it's amazing for LaLiga as a whole, before this Barca and Real to an extent, dominated the league. Now, with Real well into rebuilding and the shit show a Barca yo actually have a competition instead of El Classico featuring random also rans.
Exactly. Their only mistake was not preparing the release clauses for the influx of money from the Middle East and the inflation it would cause on transfers. Real Madrid, for example, predicted that and upped their release clauses long before the Neymar transfer.
The Poltical One I think he was holding out training. Really there was nothing they could do. The players they brought in weren’t bad as well, but they were trying to forcefully fit Coutinho into Neymar’s role, meaning it didn’t really work.
Sometimes you just really have to re-emphasise a point. Joan Laporta should be thanking me for reminding everyone of his best work twice in the space of a minute.* *In all seriousness, very lazy editing and you all have my sincere apologies! Hope you enjoyed the video nonetheless.
what baffles me is how rival clubs glee on the downfall of Barcelona. I'm an Ajax fan and when Feyenoord are in crisis, as much as I hate them, there isn't much to hate when they are in a hole. I love to hate Feyenoord that's why I prefer them when they are strong. Fun fact: Berghuis transfer from Feyenoord to Ajax is identical to Figo's transfer from Barcelona to Real Madrid
Our secret agent was found😭 but he completed his mission of destroying barca by riddling the club with debts but no fear you will always be remembered by madridistas and we shall even name a stand after you hopefully 😂😂😂
As a Liverpool fan, I loved the Neymar deal. It made Barca panic to vastly overpay for Coutinho, and they essentially funded our CL & PL wins! To top it off, they didn't ever bother to play Phil in his natural position, and now he's won the CL while humiliating them. You 8-2 see it
I love how when a massive club/company starts to wind down a cycle of success everyone blames either the manager or the board-barca had a great run now it's time to rebuild, there was always going to be a bad period when Messi got old/retired
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"Di Stéfanos Real Madrid" 1955-60: Rogelio, Lesmes, Santamaría, Marquitos, Zárraga, Santisteban, Gento, Kopa, Rial, Puskas, Di Stéfano. That's the best team in football history, 5 champions one behind the other, 8 Ligas, 2 Coupe Latine (cup between Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese league champions), one Intercontinental Cup (1960, the first one). That team is by far the best football team of all time.
That's not the best team, and in those times football was so much easy than nowadays. Although it is the same sport, you cannot compare the football of the 50s with the current one, . That team could probably have won 1 champions and 2 leagues against today's teams, and surely much less, and of course, the European titles they won at that time cannot be called Uefa Champions League as we know nowadays. Only Di Stefano, Puskas and Gento would have succeeded in football today.
@@gtb4517 iIt's the best team. You say soccer was "easier" ... define easy, because today's boots are like a second skin, those shoes were terrible, the footballs were also much heavier and of poorer quality, the referees were infinitely more permissive , there was no video to study rivals, foreign rivals were really unknown, a knee injury ended your career, sports medicine was a joke ... that's not easier. Fifa says that the European cups are champions, so talk to them and make your case about that. Yes is true, in those days only league champions played the cup and nowadays is different, yes, but, under your same argument the world cups of 24 teams are not worthy, they do not count as worlds cup of today because now more teams play and the classification is different, and this year champions League and UEL do not count because of how they were played? No one denies that football, like everything in life, was different 50-60 years ago, but that team dominated European football for 5 years, winning everything. To say that they are no better than those of now because before, things were different is absurd, but it is a mistake that all generations usually make, you will see in 20 years, boys saying that CR7, Messi, Modric, Iniesta, Pirlo, Zlatan etc, "they couldn't play soccer in their present".
@@FedericoPrieto13 You will never hear me say that Messi and Cristiano will not be valid for football in 20 years, and you will never hear me Di Stefano, Puskas or Gento not be valid for football nowadays. But in general, most of players of that madrid and football in those times wont be able to play at high level nowadays, the main reason is because football won't evolve as much as it has done for 70 years. Talking about the state of the grass, the ball, the injuries, is advantageous, the quality of the players of that time is proportional to the conditions in which they played. Imagine the Roman army today, fighting with swords, metal armor and horses, in front of tanks, grenades and firearms. That's what I mean. Like everything in life and in history, football has evolved, and the own meaning of evolution means improvement. And when something evolves, the best part is at the end of that evolution, not at the beginning. That's why a team from that era cannot be the best in history. Was the best of that time only. The fact that there had less knowledges about enemy players and teams is something positive for them, since nowadays winning is more complicated because the rivals know you, both your strengths and your weaknesses. Football has evolved so much tactically, physically, mentally. Except for Di Stefano, Puskas and Gento, the other players I doubt very much that they could play in Real Madrid nowadays, even in a first division team. Today even a goalkeeper is required to have good handling of the ball with his feet, in those years there were goalkeepers who wore berets, how little demanded they were. Imagine in other positions. To give you an example, an English football legend like John Terry today could not play outside of England because his good characteristics as a center back are favored by the football that is played in England, imagine a footballer from the 50s. Most of they would play in second divisions just like profesional football is right now. That Real Madrid team was legendary in those times, but they are not even the best team in Real Madrid's history. "La Quinta del Buitre" or Zidane and Cristiano Madrid were so much better teams in Real Madrid's history, imagine say thats the best of history. Greetings.
@@gtb4517 the "best team in the history" in any sport, only can be fairly elucidated if we contrast it against its contemporary rivals in terms of results (titles, wins, statistics). Di Stéfano's Real Madrid won basically everything it could win, every tournament played, for almost a decade. He faced the best teams in Europe and ruthlessly devastated them, making the rivals have no hope of beating them, so great was his dominance, that Venezuela's Football Association invented "the small world cup" to measure it against the best teams from South America, and also won, then FIFA make the Intercontinental Cup, and they also lifted that trophy. Just as in baseball, the 1927 Yankees, with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig are considered the best baseball team in history, despite the fact that an average team today, with the advances in training and tactics, can probably beat them, in their time (which is the important thing) they were unstoppable. Just like today, 10 guys with automatic weapons could defeat a Roman Legion, that doesn't change that they were probably the most effective and fearsome army in human history. Ferguson, Cruyff, Pelé, Herrera, Just Fontaine, and many more have said that this team was the most incredible and most overwhelming in history. Then this Madrid of Cristiano with 3 champions in a row, Sacchi's Milan, Cruyff's Ajax, Herrera's Inter, Guardiola's Barça, they all are great teams that dominated, but never for so much time, and with so big difference as the Di Stéfano's Madrid.
Now he still is in the club he’s ruined the club so badly and even after he left he’s effects are still being heard as messi leaving now is a big big slap in the face
Basically, Barca bought the biggest names on the market for several years. Coutinho, Dembele, Griezman, De Jong,... So in a way, they did something right. They utilized the Messi effect to lure all those names to Barca. But somehow, they didn't work as a team. My guess is, that a big contract at Barca is allready the pinacle of many careers. If you take Bayern as a counter example: they buy many second tier names, from whom they expect the next step. The only route to fame at Bayern is winning titles. So player have to give everything for winning. Bayern is a club that heavily relies on mentality ("mia san mia", the Bayern gene). Three times CL winner Real team had that gene, too. A bunch of guys with a mission to become legends. At Barca, I miss that spirit. Too many wannabe stars.
Day 7: the decline of Scottish football- why teams like Celtic and Aberdeen went from European trophies to struggling to qualify and why the national team has become so poor
Because most Scottish player in SPL compare to Wales, Rep Ireland and Northern Ireland most player play in English football league even they dont have any pro league like SPL and EPL.
No competition. No other club in the SPL can compete financially with Celtic. Supporters do not go to watch teams who have no chance of winning anything. Many Rugby league matches get larger attendance than SPL matches.
Well after being the greatest tactical manager in history, leading Crystal Palace, Marseille and Schalke to domestic and Europe glory, including an undefeated, numerically superior to the Invincibles record season, the great Urius Tosh accepted the manager role at Barca in 2025/2026 season. The Greatest Show on Grass was implemented in the Camp Nou leading to soaring goal tallies and gangbusters football. Without Messi present, it was easy to recreate the squad, utilizing all the academy talent and a few key signings like the return of Abel Ruiz to take Messi's #10 jersey and reestablishment and faith of the La Masia tradition. Let's not forget the growing legend of 20 yeard old Joe Bravo, a fiery footed CM from Chile with flowing blonde locks and a desperado playing style scoring 8 goals in the opening 10 matches. Future legend m8s
🤣🤣🤣🤣 how much FM do you play? Not an insult im impressed at a career path like that. Almost as good as me being the Eddie Howe/Fergie of my local team Altrincham in FM17. From National League North to 5 quintuples in a row
Bartomeu has been a GREAT President. Barcelona is not gonna ever gonna put up with players that don't wanna play in our team, period. Billions of people in the world who would love to play in Barcelona so the very few chosen ones need to understand that if they don't wanna play in our beautiful team then they most leave. Plain and simple.
I'm sorry to say, but Lionel Messi has become THE problem. In recent years he conjured too much power that it was impossible for the Barca's front office to make player or personnel decisions without asking Messi for approval first. All of these moves made to appease Messi after Neymar took his talents up to Paris have blown up right in their faces. They've spent nearly 1 billion pounds for players with Ousmane Dembele, Philippe Coutinho and Antoine Griezmann accounting for approximently 1/3 of this sum. Both Bartomeu and Messi have to go.
Simple math: there are 11 players on the pitch. If academy players make the first team at 18 and retire at 32 and the 1st team is about 50% academy players then how many academy players need to make their debut every year on average to keep the system going? And when 1 generations makes it with 5 players at the same time ... taking up 5 starter positions for almost 15 years? Just like in every part of life, timing and generations are more important than we think.
A squad rotation of more than 11 players would make the team much more competitive at the end of the season when the Champions League gets tight. This is one of the problems with standard coaching these days.
As a Barca fan I am happy that either font or Laporta will fix the club let’s hope, font has no exp (correct me if I am wrong) font is no laporta but at least he has a plan unlike fartomeu, that is if font becomes president because I really want laporta to come back
You repeated yourself between 5:27 and 6:05, my guy
haha just commented this then saw your comment.
Oh balls, I did indeed, I'll pin this. Apologies one and all, laziness on my part, I didn't finish this video until about half 1 in the morning last night but still very poor. Please forgive me, skip that bit, and I hope you can enjoy the video nonetheless!
HITC Sevens it all good Alfie. 👍
@@HITCSevens when the reply has more likes than the comment itself
@@HITCSevens meh don't worry about it. Video is still class!
It’s genuinely mental how bad Barcelona’s transfer policy has become in recent years
They have almost no top tier player between 24 and 30 and that's just awful. It's like they forgot that balance doesn't mean 30+ and 24-
Selling Arthur and bringing in Pjanic to replace him pretty much sums it up
The Establishment there was a 10 million euro difference in transfers. If that was the reason they used they are either lying or completely incompetent
@@jonny26281 they are lying thats how books are balanced barca exaggerated their profit from the deal while juve got a better player for agreeing to lie
They haven't made a truly great (here I'm excluding De Jong and Lenglet who has been good and probably will become even better) signing since 14/15 where they signed Ter Stegen and Luis Suarez. That says a lot.
Josep Bartomeu is the best president in Real Madrid history
This has nothing to do with us
Hola Madrid
@@deemcclelland4222Ingles por favor
El señor de la tienda at least perez actually makes a lot of good signings
@BarcaBoy Junior Everyone want him out
And now Messi is gone. Bartomeu's demolition job of Barcelona's squad is more or less complete
Yep
What's incredible is that he couldn't get Messi out when Messi actually wanted to leave, but his idiocy pushes him out when he actually wants to stay.
This guy must be in jail because his administrative crimes. This was the most criminal act in the history of footbal.
Please if you can make him face authorities for his crimes. Its obvious his economical management is suspicious
it's precisely the opposite: Messi was the one destroying Barcelona with his crazy salary, while his performance has been totally mediocre during the last years....
FC Barcelona: :"laporta is too good, he won everything, let's change him."
Laporta*
Ulises Leon i know all about it
We all wanted La Porta but Bartomeu rigged the elections,you dont think the socios were actually dumb enough to pick that clown?When we get La Porta back I hope we can make a rebuttal🤞
If you were from catalonia you will under stand, his inlaws are supported of franco
@@tahahadada1936 I thought he denied it. If its true, its horrible and I would understand. Gracias por la explicación.
Man United and Milan: "Hey Barca, welcome to the club!"
Barcelona will be top 5 club in next 3 year.
@Benji Winger u just watch mate
@bo kai bro mark it.
@bo kai if Victor font is president then Barça will surely be back, just need 2 years for complete revolution.
@bo kai lame joke buddy, next time come with better jokes
So Bartomeu was the head of the Barca basketball team when they failed miserably and went to become the head of the whole Barca team and then Barca football team got destroyed. This man is a failure at everything
really? He wastes Messi 5 years prime time
Ok.
He has failed upwards essentially
Yet, still gets hired for top jobs. That's the state of the world: failures get highly rewarded. So what does that tell you about the people who dishes them out?
@@56postoffice that is because Barcelona has a democratic type of structure. If it had a corporate type of structure Bartemeu would have been sacked after his basketball team failure.
In a corporate type Barcelona, Raul Saniheili (Director of Football at Arsenal) would have been the director of Football at Barcelona
and the president would been none other the prodigy himself, Ferran Soriano (CEO of CITY FOOTBALL GROUP)
Ferran Soriano was the youngest person to be ever be in a Barcelona board. He literally dreamed of making Barcelona what City Football Group is today. But due to bureaucracy & Office politics his ideas given a deaf ear and he resigned from VP in 2008.
So this damage of Barca is a systematic procedure is due to incompetent leadership for a decade.
If Messi mancity deal goes through then the credit of that goes 50% to pep & 50% Soriano.
I still can't get over how he traded Arthur for Pjanic 😅
Arthur was useless but replacing him with another old cdm is absolutely rediculous
@@hunkraven8465 he wasn't useless he felt the trainer didn't want to start him so he wasn't pushing himself to get better. In the national team Tite seems will start him every game so his performances are solid
@@Romano2018 players are never guaranteed a starting spot. It's a meritocracy at the top
Hunk Raven84 Arthur was supposed to be Barca’s next Xavi and play with De Jong to control the middle. When they traded him, that’s when I knew this club had no ambitions or end goals.
@@hunkraven8465 "Arthur surrprised me the most, hes similar to xavi, he likes to stay close to the ball and pass it around" - Messi
To quote Claude from AFTV.
‘It’s time to go’
Just like he was let go from AFTV.
Imagine if Bartomeou takes up the job at Arsenal. Match made in heaven.
RIP Claude, he was the voice of reason
@@thehylianloach9473 Also a racist.
Oh u thought you were gonna say "DVDs going off"
Bartomeau is a secret Real Madrid agent. He came to destroy Barca
A hero then
Well, destroying Barcelona is same as destroy the Spanish national team, so Spain wouldn't be playing euros or world Cup no more and until Barcelona is fixed
He's the David Luiz of club executives 😅😅
Its what happens when you become "More than a Club"... ROFL.. what a joke. 😅🤣 more than a club
Don't bring Madrid into your wrecked club
Just to touch on the start of the video; Valdés wasn’t the keeper for the 14-15 season, he had left the club. It was Claudio Bravo in the league and Ter Stegen in the Cup competitions.
Exactly! I was very disappointed with his lack of research.
He said 2014 most of 2014 valdes was our gk but frm the start of 2015 bravo became a laliga starter and mats played in copa del rey and ucl
Basshen No he said that was the 11 in Bartomeu’s first full season which was 14-15. Valdés didn’t play a single minute in 14-15, Bravo was the keeper from August 2014 onwards in the league.
Who’s here after he resigned??👀
Not to mention he put Busquets Xavi and Rakitic as the starting 11 when the real one was with iniesta and rakitic in Xavi's place 😅
Yeah agreed, that Neymar's transfer to Psg broke the transfer world in football
Bale started it
Think unthoughtful thoughts nah Neymar did because now 150 doesn’t seem as much as it would have
What broke it was Neymar followed by Pogba for 100m the same summer. Those blew the lid off
@@Jorge-wg9tq it's true that bale broke it the first time, but neymar transfer made club nowadays spend 50+mil like it was nothing
Nah I'd say pogba started it. Bale and neymar were reasonable for there abilities they've completely paid off. Bale directly helped in the UCL titles and neymar has made PSG a global brand. Pogba has done nothing but just show up once every third game when he's not injured. Nothing against him he's a good player just too overpriced
Honestly one of the best docs you've ever done Alfie.
He's not resigning. He's just making Messi the villain.
Good Haha
Messi is the villian though
Filip he promised them a UCL, he’s leaving Barcelona without doing anything, Cristiano left Real Madrid as a champion and a true hero. He wasn’t a false hero. Messi swore with his own words that he would bring a UCL to us Barcelona fans and he failed us and now he quits
@@adriansalinas7026 by this logic, Neymar is a villain too because he promised Brazil a world cup and still hasn't delivered.
Gian Garcia yup, all Barcelona players disappoint us, I wish we had somebody like Cristiano in our team 😖
As a Real Madrid Fan, I will deeply miss Bartomeu. Thank you for everything!
Lmao 0-4
@@the.orlandogonzalez Frankfurt: oof
lmao
as a barcelona fan, I will deeply go down your hole
Now Barcelona fans know how Man United feel about Ed Woodward and the the Glazers.
And Milan with fucking Berlusconi,Gazidis and Eliott
At least the board at Barcelona will change in a year whereas clubs like united arsenal and ac Milan they are stuck with the owners for next coming years
@@rashidkhalid3970 Thats not true because this is Eliott's last season.Bernard Arnault is going to buy us in the next year.
I will take Woodward anyday over Bartomeou.
Man utd never had the best player in the world
what lol?
Rosell started it and Bartomeu took over from him.
Two men have almost single-handedly destroyed the club.
That's two hands technically
That's two hands technically
U forgot to mention Valverde he’s one of the homies
@@darkblood9008 Valverde was a European choke artist, but he was great in the league. He nearly went unbeaten
@@LazerIsHere Valverde was trash it was just that messi was phenomenal
"He somehow managed to crash a Ferrari in the middle of the desert".
I once heard this said of Daniel Passarella, who, as president, mismanaged argentine giants River Plate so bad, they got relegated to the second division.
Now, Barcelona´s crisis isn´t quite THAT bad, but I feel the comparisson still fits.
Ahh.. Scuderia Ferrari is as bad as FC Barcelona, if you follow F1.😂
Pasarella took on what the previous president did, so i don't blame him AS much for that.
not yet, not yet
Yep. He shit the bed big time
@@vasudevdehariya1269 s🅱️innala
*long read*
I saw this video last week and I avoided it because I figured there would be a lot of missing parts to this video. You did a good job explaining the inner machinations of Barcelona but there are things to expand upon.
I’ll elaborate:
1. Ronaldinho wasn’t Laporta’s man, he was actually Rosell. I think if nothing else, that was the reason Laporta teamed up with Rosell, because he had a lot of contacts and could get deals done.
By that same token, however, Rosell was and still is of the idea that football belongs to the players as opposed to managers or an actual project or philosophy of doing things. Remember this, as it will be important later.
When Laporta’s project was just staring out with Txiki as sporting director and Rijkaard as manager, Rosell was adamant that he wanted to get rid of Puyol, Xavi and Valdés and bring in Brazilians like Luis Fabiano, Baptista and others. Getting rid of la masía graduates to bring in superstars, sound familiar?
Thankfully, Laporta chose to listen to Cruyff and not Rosell. Rosell ended up stepping down and doing what you mentioned.
2. Mundo Deportivo, a very influential newspaper based on Barcelona, who CLAIM to be pro Barça, but are actually in cohoots with Rosell and his cronies (like Bartomeu, who we’ll get to later) were the ones leading the smear campaign against Laporta, saying that he had misappropriated funds and was a pro independence nationalist and was using the club to further his agenda, to the detriment of the sport. This despite the fact that under Laporta, he had made profesional several of the sporting sections of the club and had won a lead and champions league double as recently as 2006. This was in 2008z
3. That same year, Bartomeu was quoted as saying “Hay que erradicar el cruyfismo e introducir ideas nuevas” or “We need to eradicate Cruyffism” and introduce new ideas.” Most people with some sense, understand that the Barcelona way was given to the club by Cruyff. Some call is differently because they don’t want to give credit to Cruyff for reasons I won’t get into now because my comment is long enough as it is.
Anyway, people like him and others have been saying that the Barça DNA was obsolete. The philosophy itself wasn’t obsolete, it just wasn’t being executed properly.
Bartomeu wanted Mourinho, but Laporta gambled on Pep.
4. You said that selling one of the top players under other regimes was unheard of, well, the first thing Pep did was sell Ronaldinho. Hindsight will say that that was a no brainer, but the move wasn’t popular at the time. He also got rid of Eto’o despite him being the clubs top scorer the year after. However he got rid of them because they were toxic to the group, remember this as well.
He got rid of him, as well as others. He implemented several rules and a new training schedule.
He gave Messi a new diet, and he magically stopped getting injured every other month. That’s something he will never get credit for, but it is what it is.
Pep also successfully develop a way for Iniesta and Xavi to play in the middle together. Under Rijkaard, that never happened because he considered that middle of the park frail defensively.
Again, that’s something Pep will never get credit for. They say that it was easy to win with Messi, Xavi and Iniesta but those same players were getting humiliated at the Bernabéu a year before conceding 4 after giving them a guard of honor.
5. After all that, the socio voted Rosell in 2010, that’s when it started to go to shit.
Pep will never admit to this, but he left because he didn’t trust Rosell. First, it was him who iniciales the smear campaign against Laporta, whom Pep owes a lot to. He also removed Cruyffs honorary presidency at the club. Txiki also left his charge as sporting director as soon as Rosell won.
Furthermore, Rosell also went against the wishes of Guardiola and sold Chigrynsky (or however you spell it) in a signal that would mean the manager was no longer in charge, a basic tenement of Cruyffism.
So those were strikes one and two. The final strike was Rosell wanting to sign Neymar in spite of Pep’s wishes he didn’t want that type of player at his club. Not because he’s not talented, but hecause he can be (and is toxic.) He saw the writing on the wall and didn’t renew his contract, but in reality he was ran out the club. Had he stayed, Rosell would have done to him what ended up happening to Valverde, who was basically a puppet.
6. After what happened to Rosell and Bartomeu came in, he just kept carrying Rosell’s wishes, these people are one and the same. Then there is Toby Freiza as well who also thinks like that.
It’s not that La Masía has dried up, is that these people have contempt for anything that smells of Cruyff. Thiago was unceremoniously sold without giving him a proper go, as were people like Adama, Samper, and countless others who had enough talent to make it.
Nevertheless part of it was the last part.
7. Too much power given to the super stars. I’ll admit Messi is part of the problem. Somewhere along the line he was convinced that the way to win trophies is by having superstars and not trining properly.
Under Valverde, the team lost intensity, nevertheless, it was a direct result of the influence of senior players wanting a lower workload, specially after working under Luis Enrique, and Valverde obliged. As a result, the intensity was gradually lost until we saw what we saw against Liverpool. You can’t pretend that it’s a good idea to play at a low intensity all year and think you’re going to win against Klopp’s Liverpool just by having talented players. They don’t press like they did under Pep, they don’t train like that.
Many of the players who were there are still starters, not because there aren’t other players capable, but because those same players refuse to give other youngsters a chance. Piqué has been guilty of this several times. Players like Martinez and more recently de Ligt didn’t come to the club over assurances over playing time. They saw that players plays because of the name of the back of the shirt and not performance.
When you add it all up, this is what you get. Honestly, I didn’t feel sorry for any senior player during that 2-8 lost.
The only one I felt sorry for actually was Ter Stegen, because he’s been a vocal detractor of the way things have been run in the past few years. Him and De Jong who have said this is not the way to run things. Also Setién, who ended up paying the price for other people’s mismanagement. I’ve no doubt he could have been a great manager for Barcelona with humble players who were willing to listen and be coached. Of course Ansu Fati as well, but he’s not a senior player.
Exactly... Agree it completely especially on point no 7
You forgot to mention the financial aspect of it all. Bartomeu and his board are personally liable for financial losses of the club. They had to sell Arthur to balance the books of the 19/20 business year, but are already in a hole because of the 70m for Pjanic in the 20/21 business year. That's why they actually want Messi to leave because it would solve all their financial problems before getting voted out next spring.
Bartomeu might step down now, but he can't call elections. He needs someone of his board in charge to first cook the books before a new president comes in. The man's a crook.
this makes no sense at all
@@TheBonecrusherz Why not?
So with all of the TV rights and merchandising they sell they still can't balance their budget? I mean selling Arthur Melo to balance the their budget it's understandable if you think about it, but signing pjanic it's just plain stupid if you ask me ..
But Bartomeu is a man with no vision for the future, if Barca were managed like Bayern they would still have dominant squad and the perfect manager for them ...
@@dedasalmeida9047 Juventus left them no choice. They were shopping players all around Europe. Juve agreed to buy Arthur, but only if Barça would take Pjanic. The Arthur to Juve deal was finalized ahead of June 30th (business year 19/20) so that Bartomeu could balance the books and not be personally liable. The Pjanic to Barça deal on the other hand was finalized after July 1st (business year 20/21). That's why they start the new business year already with a financial hole 70 million deep.
Of course Barça make lots of money from TV rights and merchandise, but they also pay higher wages than any other sports team in the world. 70% of the annual budget are just wages for the first team (players and coaching staff)! That's very unhealthy for a club/business. They still owe Liverpool and Dortmund tens of millions for Coutinho and Dembele.
Add to that the loss of revenue from ticket sales. Every home game without audience means at least a couple million less. They have spent almost a billion on transfer fees since 2015!!
@@Erich_U why would they want to sell their best player just to balance the 60m loss? They could literally sell anyone else to achieve it. Also you're completely ignoring the fact that messi wants to leave on his own and bartomeu even offered to resign if messi stays.
I bet messi just wants another new contract with an even higher salary.
What a great time to get recommended 😀
Who's here smiling after the arrest? :D
You really explained the situation cleary, thank you for that. A lot of people think we, Barca fans, are over exaggerating when we say that we have been in a crisis for a while and it is just showing recently to the world. Trophies have been covering up the mistakes to people outside the club but Barca fans have been pissed for at least 6 or 7 years now.
Barcelona should really build a statue of Messi, he kept the club alive from 2016
"If he had any honor left, he would have stepped down by the time this video came round"
Barto: SO ITS TREASON THEN
After a year on, we're still cleaning up after him, Messi just left the club because we can't even afford to sign him 😢
The next few years will probably be rough. But ultimately this won't last forever, Barcelona will be back up there
If Barca revive their world class youth academy then between that and some shrewd transfers they should be back competing for Champions League finals in no time. I would give it 3 seasons tops.
@@scipioafricanus2212joao felix is cooking
0:17 - Valdes left the club by then if I'm not mistaken? I believe Bravo would have been the most frequent goalkeeper that season since there was an agreement for him to play in league matches and Ter Stegen to be between the sticks during cup games.
Valdes got injured around March 2014 if i can remember , then he left to join Man Utd and they signed Ter Stegen who you’re right in saying was the cup and European games
The fact that bartomeu was one of the best president for football fans. On his time, We witnessed 6-1 Remondota, 0-3 Roma comeback, 0-4 liverpool comeback & the legendary 8-2. We should be thankful for these greatest moments (except barca fans ofcourse ☻)
about almost a year after this video messi leaves
Bravo, Alfie. Excellent job.
As a Catalan and Barcelona supporter, it's good to find someone explaining the issue so well to English speakers. This board is so bad, that I'm more than happy to let Messi go if this means Bartomeu resigns. We need to go back to our roots and do things well
Font gonna win? Is he the favourite?
@@sumzk Probably... although what Bartomeu & co do best is "convincing" the press to support them, so who knows. But Laporta or Font should be winning
@@francescganau7679 well only font has shown his sporting ideas with si Al futur, he even has a website. Laporta is relying on his last term, font should win but he needs to keep his xavi obsession at bay and see if koeman does well this year
I am hoping laporte comes back. Then messi and Neymar come back too
I feel your pain Barca fans i support Arsenal so you no how shits going for us🤦♂️
Lee Cattermole to be Barcelona president by September
Make it happen
Prefer akinfewna but i'll take it
Adam Johnson
@@Pessidog10 he'll probably want to be the President of BSC Young Boys
@@ashutoshmishra8423 love that🤣
Thanks for making this video Alfie, it’s my birthday today and I am a Barcelona fan. I love the videos and it brings a smile to my face that you addressed the situation at Barcelona. Thank you so much and keep up the great videos my g!
Here after Bartomeu finally resigned...... ✌️✌️
Thanks for all the love Madridistas ❤️. Hala madrid y' nada mas🔥❤️
STFU BEECH
Thanks barto sab
You can also mention the Valencia board.
They will get in relegated in few seasons on the rate they are declining
Please make a video on how Glazer's have ruined Manchester United.
and Ferguson as well
You mean by spending the second largest amount of money of any team in England? Cry me a river
CRIPPLED BEEF appreciate you going to the trouble of getting the link but no-one cares mate.
@@squidward6317 🤣👍
@CRIPPLED BEEF That's a whole load of effort to say nothing.
Actually the best President was NOT Laporta, but Núñez (the longest-serving, from 1978 to 2000). He was responsible for creating the original "Dream Team" and for signings such as Maradona, Ronaldo (the original) and Figo. Everybody hated him in his final years as President, but now, with the benefit of hindsight, it has become clear how great was his relaxed and content style of leadership
Nunez was a legend, and he laid the foundations for the great Barca teams that
came afterwards. There have been some criticisms, that he didn't want to spend
money in the transfer market, but as you can see, buying Maradona, Ronaldo and Figo (all 3 world players of the year) isn't penny-pinching. The work Nunez did
was critical in establishing the "model" - together with the ex-player & coach,
Cruyff, they both set the example for later legends such as Guardiola & Rikkard as coaches, with Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, Puyol masterminding the best team ever.
He is hated because he sacked Cruyff. Cruyff was doing a transition from his dream team and Núñez didn't. let him.
This video made me really appreciate the real goat J.Cruyff. Legendary player and coach. Maradona great player crap manager. Pele great player not a manager. George best great player not a manager. Messi and CR7 amazing players but managers, only time will tell.
"Barcelona is a club that always has the strength to bounce back" -
Milan fans' DEJA VU?!
2011/12.. Milan was the most dominant club in Europe in the last 20 years, so this 2, 3 years of crisis is nothing. We'l bounce back! TEN YEARS LATER... GULP!
They’ve only just started to bounce back
juve is the only one who can bounce back in the modern football
Barcelona can bounce back if the board is good, they are still most attractive club. None of Juve, Milan comes close to Barcelona or real Madrid.
Not exactly the same. Barcelona have quite some interesting young players in addition to established players. They have the potential to bounce back quicker than people expect
@@haiderthahim3226 with no money and a clueless board....I doubt it. what good players with potential are left ?...vidal, rakitic, meesi, suarez gone.....dont know bout pique...
de jong, fati, demebele (if at all) need time and good players to guide... griezmann? had a average season. left back an right back are not top...
they need at least 6 good players. Top players wouldnt come...just because why?
thing at 5:30 and at 5:50 are so important, Alfie has to say it twice
I thought Barcelona had no choice but to sell Neymar because PSG activated his Release Clause. You make it sound like they chose to sell Neymar.
Well tbf the player could have been made to stay if convinced well. Neymar knew what was coming and he left. If there was a project to be genuinely excited about then neymar might have stayed.
just because psg activated release clause doesnt mean barca had to give him away.. if that was the case, then likes of messi even if 700m in his prime wouldnt be at barca.. the player has a say in it.. also club can foresee such incidents and define release clause accordingly.. for eg. benzema has release clause of 1 billion.. which means barca has to put neymar in market for others to buy him
glad he left that corrupt club
You need to do a video about the current situation of Valencia
People forget about Malcom, they spent so much on him
Love your videos and work put into them. Had a question and was blessed to see your name again. Just getting a passion about the game again after a hiatus. Its been a joy to gain a deeper understanding of soccer topics.
I'm your fan for almost 2 years now
Today you just certified that
Love you brother
Loving these mini doco’s, and it’s this kind of content that sets you apart from the rest of the UA-cam Football community.
This will probably be an unpopular request, and in all honestly wouldn’t tally up incredible views, but if this does garner some interest, I would love to see your take on the current state of Australian soccer. From the heights of the 2006 World Cup, with legends such as Kewell and Viduka, to the current disastrous state of our local game and our current international crop, I would love to see your take on the matter. On the surface it doesn’t seem all that interesting, but dig deep and you can find mismanagement, training set ups, increased funding of rival nations and a general wane of local interest for the once beautiful game as reasons for Australia current demise into obscurity.
Love your content, keep it up!
Would love to see one like this honestly!
Love to see it
Yes please.
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Day 61: every scorer of the 2014 World Cup group stages, where are they now?
day 42069 every scorer of 2014 world cup where are they now
Parallel_Prism na to long
@@parallel_prism2323 I see what u did there
Way to many 😂
@@Kevin-ji3zq what did he do
Please make another video talking about that social media scandal of Bartomeu! Heard a lot of it but never got to know the details. Great video btw!
Watching this again after Messi's farewell press conference
Schalke 2010/11 squad semi finalis Champions League where are they now...
what does this have to do with a random team from 10y ago?
Hi Alfie, could you do a similar video like this, but for Peter Lim, the owner of Valencia, or the owners of Wigan please. Thank you!
Doesn't Peter know Lim also own a club in the English football pyramid, I know he has a stake in Salford wth the rest of the class of '92 explaining Neville being appointed at Valencia
@@bri1085 Yeah, I think Lim has a 40% stake in Salford
He's a bigger clown than bartomeu, wish we sign gaya asap
Let's give messi a 700m release clause to secure our prize asset, also let's let him leave for free as well.
I am from the future.... He is now a free agent 😭😭😭
who is here after messi left
I think Josep has done a geeat job for Barcelona*.
*I'm an Espanyol fan
no no no n ooooooooooooo not at all terable
@@Bob-ut2fv I mean, I admitted I'm a fan of a rival club lmao. He's tearing them apart and I love it.
CynicalApex are you Spanish? If so this is terrible and even then if you aren’t Spanish this is terrible for La Liga as a whole.
@@kyzersoze8408 Actually it's amazing for LaLiga as a whole, before this Barca and Real to an extent, dominated the league. Now, with Real well into rebuilding and the shit show a Barca yo actually have a competition instead of El Classico featuring random also rans.
how's relegation fam
UA-cam algorithm on point again
They didn't have a choice with the Neymar sale. They met his buyout clause
They could've renegotiated with him to make him stay.
@@enzothessieu6612 ye but he wanted to leave. Doubt they could have convinced him
Exactly. Their only mistake was not preparing the release clauses for the influx of money from the Middle East and the inflation it would cause on transfers. Real Madrid, for example, predicted that and upped their release clauses long before the Neymar transfer.
The Poltical One I think he was holding out training. Really there was nothing they could do. The players they brought in weren’t bad as well, but they were trying to forcefully fit Coutinho into Neymar’s role, meaning it didn’t really work.
@@christopherchan5245 I know
Did Alfie just repeat the same thing at 5:30 and at 5:50
Just have to check people are paying attention sometimes. Congratulations Adit, you passed the test.
@@HITCSevens well played
@@HITCSevens that's what college professor say when they make mistakes lol
I heard it too and I genuinely thought I was having a stroke. 😂
Who's here after Messi left Barcelona?
They signed for PES and it's been all downhill since.
HenryClay1844 true
This video has been perfect for me as I didn’t quite understand what was going on. Thanks a mil Alfie top class as always 👍🏼
5:55 Did he just repeat the same sentence?
I thought I was the only one who noticed it
Yup... editing error I guess
Somebody lost their place on the script lol
Sometimes you just really have to re-emphasise a point. Joan Laporta should be thanking me for reminding everyone of his best work twice in the space of a minute.*
*In all seriousness, very lazy editing and you all have my sincere apologies! Hope you enjoyed the video nonetheless.
@@HITCSevens lol
what baffles me is how rival clubs glee on the downfall of Barcelona. I'm an Ajax fan and when Feyenoord are in crisis, as much as I hate them, there isn't much to hate when they are in a hole. I love to hate Feyenoord that's why I prefer them when they are strong.
Fun fact: Berghuis transfer from Feyenoord to Ajax is identical to Figo's transfer from Barcelona to Real Madrid
It's simple really when we aren't down they can't talk
whos watching this right after he resigned
@@bigbrain8614 lol
@@bigbrain8614 fixed it lmao
Who’s here after he resigned??👀
Me bro I am happy
Our secret agent was found😭 but he completed his mission of destroying barca by riddling the club with debts but no fear you will always be remembered by madridistas and we shall even name a stand after you hopefully 😂😂😂
Hes gonna get death threats for makin Messi leave.
He´ll actually get DEATH itself !!
@@olussharaibi wouldn't be surprised, honestly
I'm surprised he isn't assassinated by now.
@@qinghui30 I mean he is a national hide 'n seek champion soooo
"Thanks to him, there is now a time for Barcelona, Its called 8:02"
-Lionel Messi
Finally someone talking about this absolute clown
he's not just a clown, he's the entire circus
Bartomeu should teach a class on how to ruin a football club .... he will literally be the best professor ....
Watching this documentary new that Messi is leaving make so much sense, great video.
As a Liverpool fan, I loved the Neymar deal. It made Barca panic to vastly overpay for Coutinho, and they essentially funded our CL & PL wins! To top it off, they didn't ever bother to play Phil in his natural position, and now he's won the CL while humiliating them. You 8-2 see it
He is a Real madrid fan in disguise'
this man ruined everything .the current situation is horrible and its all cause of him.
Nearly a year on from this video and messi has left barca because of how much debt they are in. Wow… just wow
This video aged well
I love how when a massive club/company starts to wind down a cycle of success everyone blames either the manager or the board-barca had a great run now it's time to rebuild, there was always going to be a bad period when Messi got old/retired
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Lewandoski's memes,Now Phil Jones's Memes? I think I should change my name now
@@jurgenklopp6885 lol maybe
This was on my recommendations the day Messi left Barca.
thanks for making this video. it gave me great insight into what exactly the problems are that are facing Barcelona and how they came about
This man ruined Barça football. The most useless and incompetent president in Barcelona's history
The fault of Bayern. If they had won with a respectful 3:1 or even 4:1 we might not be having this much heat on Barca. Those damn Germans 😂😂😂
@Noel yeah same. We needed this kind of reality check
Bayern did Barca a favour they highlight and showed up Barca flaws on and off the pitch that 8-2 defeat was necessary
"Di Stéfanos Real Madrid" 1955-60: Rogelio, Lesmes, Santamaría, Marquitos, Zárraga, Santisteban, Gento, Kopa, Rial, Puskas, Di Stéfano. That's the best team in football history, 5 champions one behind the other, 8 Ligas, 2 Coupe Latine (cup between Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese league champions), one Intercontinental Cup (1960, the first one). That team is by far the best football team of all time.
That's not the best team, and in those times football was so much easy than nowadays. Although it is the same sport, you cannot compare the football of the 50s with the current one, . That team could probably have won 1 champions and 2 leagues against today's teams, and surely much less, and of course, the European titles they won at that time cannot be called Uefa Champions League as we know nowadays. Only Di Stefano, Puskas and Gento would have succeeded in football today.
@@gtb4517 iIt's the best team.
You say soccer was "easier" ... define easy, because today's boots are like a second skin, those shoes were terrible, the footballs were also much heavier and of poorer quality, the referees were infinitely more permissive , there was no video to study rivals, foreign rivals were really unknown, a knee injury ended your career, sports medicine was a joke ... that's not easier.
Fifa says that the European cups are champions, so talk to them and make your case about that. Yes is true, in those days only league champions played the cup and nowadays is different, yes, but, under your same argument the world cups of 24 teams are not worthy, they do not count as worlds cup of today because now more teams play and the classification is different, and this year champions League and UEL do not count because of how they were played?
No one denies that football, like everything in life, was different 50-60 years ago, but that team dominated European football for 5 years, winning everything. To say that they are no better than those of now because before, things were different is absurd, but it is a mistake that all generations usually make, you will see in 20 years, boys saying that CR7, Messi, Modric, Iniesta, Pirlo, Zlatan etc, "they couldn't play soccer in their present".
@@FedericoPrieto13 You will never hear me say that Messi and Cristiano will not be valid for football in 20 years, and you will never hear me Di Stefano, Puskas or Gento not be valid for football nowadays. But in general, most of players of that madrid and football in those times wont be able to play at high level nowadays, the main reason is because football won't evolve as much as it has done for 70 years. Talking about the state of the grass, the ball, the injuries, is advantageous, the quality of the players of that time is proportional to the conditions in which they played. Imagine the Roman army today, fighting with swords, metal armor and horses, in front of tanks, grenades and firearms. That's what I mean. Like everything in life and in history, football has evolved, and the own meaning of evolution means improvement. And when something evolves, the best part is at the end of that evolution, not at the beginning. That's why a team from that era cannot be the best in history. Was the best of that time only. The fact that there had less knowledges about enemy players and teams is something positive for them, since nowadays winning is more complicated because the rivals know you, both your strengths and your weaknesses. Football has evolved so much tactically, physically, mentally. Except for Di Stefano, Puskas and Gento, the other players I doubt very much that they could play in Real Madrid nowadays, even in a first division team. Today even a goalkeeper is required to have good handling of the ball with his feet, in those years there were goalkeepers who wore berets, how little demanded they were. Imagine in other positions. To give you an example, an English football legend like John Terry today could not play outside of England because his good characteristics as a center back are favored by the football that is played in England, imagine a footballer from the 50s. Most of they would play in second divisions just like profesional football is right now.
That Real Madrid team was legendary in those times, but they are not even the best team in Real Madrid's history. "La Quinta del Buitre" or Zidane and Cristiano Madrid were so much better teams in Real Madrid's history, imagine say thats the best of history. Greetings.
@@gtb4517 the "best team in the history" in any sport, only can be fairly elucidated if we contrast it against its contemporary rivals in terms of results (titles, wins, statistics). Di Stéfano's Real Madrid won basically everything it could win, every tournament played, for almost a decade. He faced the best teams in Europe and ruthlessly devastated them, making the rivals have no hope of beating them, so great was his dominance, that Venezuela's Football Association invented "the small world cup" to measure it against the best teams from South America, and also won, then FIFA make the Intercontinental Cup, and they also lifted that trophy. Just as in baseball, the 1927 Yankees, with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig are considered the best baseball team in history, despite the fact that an average team today, with the advances in training and tactics, can probably beat them, in their time (which is the important thing) they were unstoppable. Just like today, 10 guys with automatic weapons could defeat a Roman Legion, that doesn't change that they were probably the most effective and fearsome army in human history. Ferguson, Cruyff, Pelé, Herrera, Just Fontaine, and many more have said that this team was the most incredible and most overwhelming in history. Then this Madrid of Cristiano with 3 champions in a row, Sacchi's Milan, Cruyff's Ajax, Herrera's Inter, Guardiola's Barça, they all are great teams that dominated, but never for so much time, and with so big difference as the Di Stéfano's Madrid.
*Mission accomplished*
Now he still is in the club he’s ruined the club so badly and even after he left he’s effects are still being heard as messi leaving now is a big big slap in the face
Basically, Barca bought the biggest names on the market for several years. Coutinho, Dembele, Griezman, De Jong,... So in a way, they did something right. They utilized the Messi effect to lure all those names to Barca. But somehow, they didn't work as a team. My guess is, that a big contract at Barca is allready the pinacle of many careers.
If you take Bayern as a counter example: they buy many second tier names, from whom they expect the next step. The only route to fame at Bayern is winning titles. So player have to give everything for winning. Bayern is a club that heavily relies on mentality ("mia san mia", the Bayern gene).
Three times CL winner Real team had that gene, too. A bunch of guys with a mission to become legends.
At Barca, I miss that spirit. Too many wannabe stars.
Day 7: the decline of Scottish football- why teams like Celtic and Aberdeen went from European trophies to struggling to qualify and why the national team has become so poor
Not enough money in the Scottish League compared to other leagues and players don't want to play in a league where only one team wins. Video done.
Because most Scottish player in SPL compare to Wales, Rep Ireland and Northern Ireland most player play in English football league even they dont have any pro league like SPL and EPL.
No competition. No other club in the SPL can compete financially with Celtic. Supporters do not go to watch teams who have no chance of winning anything. Many Rugby league matches get larger attendance than SPL matches.
Would be a sick video
Well after being the greatest tactical manager in history, leading Crystal Palace, Marseille and Schalke to domestic and Europe glory, including an undefeated, numerically superior to the Invincibles record season, the great Urius Tosh accepted the manager role at Barca in 2025/2026 season. The Greatest Show on Grass was implemented in the Camp Nou leading to soaring goal tallies and gangbusters football. Without Messi present, it was easy to recreate the squad, utilizing all the academy talent and a few key signings like the return of Abel Ruiz to take Messi's #10 jersey and reestablishment and faith of the La Masia tradition. Let's not forget the growing legend of 20 yeard old Joe Bravo, a fiery footed CM from Chile with flowing blonde locks and a desperado playing style scoring 8 goals in the opening 10 matches. Future legend m8s
🤣🤣🤣🤣 how much FM do you play? Not an insult im impressed at a career path like that. Almost as good as me being the Eddie Howe/Fergie of my local team Altrincham in FM17. From National League North to 5 quintuples in a row
will we ever recover
Even as a Madrid fan I hope you will one day. Now with Lamine, Pedri and Gavi you have some promising stars for thé future
Yea
1:30
Agree
That's sad and refreshing at the same time as a Barca and Messi fan
Bartomeu has been a GREAT President. Barcelona is not gonna ever gonna put up with players that don't wanna play in our team, period. Billions of people in the world who would love to play in Barcelona so the very few chosen ones need to understand that if they don't wanna play in our beautiful team then they most leave. Plain and simple.
And all of this leads to greatest disaster of all - Messi has to leave Barca
And Messi just left
Day 6: 7 footballers who didn't deserve statues
I'm sorry to say, but Lionel Messi has become THE problem. In recent years he conjured too much power that it was impossible for the Barca's front office to make player or personnel decisions without asking Messi for approval first. All of these moves made to appease Messi after Neymar took his talents up to Paris have blown up right in their faces. They've spent nearly 1 billion pounds for players with Ousmane Dembele, Philippe Coutinho and Antoine Griezmann accounting for approximently 1/3 of this sum. Both Bartomeu and Messi have to go.
Boss video fella… got to say though, its pronounced like “la massssia” not “la mazia”. Goes right through me every time you do that.
I for one really want Bartomeu to continue 😍
What
@@manavarunaravind4290 see I'm not a Barca fan 😅
@@ejaaz7260oh nice
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@@ejaaz7260 he's gonna leave next yr and maybe now if socis get 16.5k votes.
Simple math: there are 11 players on the pitch. If academy players make the first team at 18 and retire at 32 and the 1st team is about 50% academy players then how many academy players need to make their debut every year on average to keep the system going?
And when 1 generations makes it with 5 players at the same time ... taking up 5 starter positions for almost 15 years? Just like in every part of life, timing and generations are more important than we think.
A squad rotation of more than 11 players would make the team much more competitive at the end of the season when the Champions League gets tight. This is one of the problems with standard coaching these days.
Who’s here after Messi’s departure?
These documentary videos are freakin world class!
As a Barca fan I am happy that either font or Laporta will fix the club let’s hope, font has no exp (correct me if I am wrong) font is no laporta but at least he has a plan unlike fartomeu, that is if font becomes president because I really want laporta to come back
Who is after his resignation 🔥🔥🎉🎉