Speaking to reporters, the 44-year-old said, “The Culé must understand that the situation is very complicated to compete economically. It has nothing to do with what we had 25 years ago when the coach would come and say ‘I want this one, this one, and this one’. It doesn’t work like that anymore.
“I understand that and that’s how we’re going to adjust to it. That doesn’t mean we’re not going to compete. We need stability and time. There are good things to compete for. The situation we are in is the situation we are in in terms of results. Last year we were solvent without playing the football we would like to play and this year, we have played better, but with worse results.”
He added, “We are living the situation that the club has at an economic level to compete. We need to compete better. The season has slipped away from us because of details.”
Barcelona had the world at their feet when Messi, Neymar plus Suarez were still present in the club but a series of financial mismanagement eventually killed the vibe, a staggering fee of 220 million euros was signed for the sale of Neymar, and in what seemed like a profit the capture of Coutinho and Dembele didn’t go as planned.
It will take them only 4 years for them to drop to the bottom and who would have thought that the impregnable Barcelona would fall to the gutters a determined Xavi may still hold the key to their rebirth as he recently made a u-turn decision to stay again at the Camp Nou.
