These are fast times at Barcelona.
The club are going through changes and the latest occurred yesterday with the departures of Andoni Zubizarreta and Carles Puyol.
Add to this the growing pressure on boss Luis Enrique as well as the anxiety over the future of star player Lionel Messi and you begin to see why Cules are getting sweaty.
Legendary Barcelona striker Hristo Stoichkov has offered his views on all of these developments to radio station Onda Cero.
Stoichkov wanted to stress the importance of Lionel Messi to the club: “The problems Messi has encountered all came from within the club. There’s been talks about fines, contract talks, advertising issues…
“You have to protect and pamper the best player in the world. Messi should finish his career at Barcelona and nowhere else. The club should look after him and pamper him.
“Tell me the name of one foreign player who did not leave the club through the back door in the end…
” He then went on to say that club are in crisis. Stoichkov emphasised that the state of the club was more important than winning trophies and referred to the reign(s) of Louis van Gaal to make his point.
“I think Barcelona are in chaos at the moment. Everything’s been turned upside down,” he went on.
“They could return to the days of Louis van Gaal, where they won the title, but only 13,000 people came to the stadium. Barcelona are going down that road again.
“Barcelona are following the same path they followed under [Joan] Gaspart. They spent millions and millions on players who are worthless and not even 20,000 fans showed up. This could very well happen again.”
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