Can Barcelona's youngsters save the club?
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2024
- Barcelona made it through to the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time in four years, beating Napoli over two legs.
There was a time when that would have been very much routine. After all the off-pitch issues, manager Xavi is trusting in young players from La Masia on the big stage, and they’re delivering. Could this actually be a turning point or is it just a false dawn for a club gripped by crippling financial losses?
The Athletic’s Adam Leventhal is joined by Spanish football editor Tomas Hill Lopez-Menchero and Barcelona writer Pol Ballus to discuss.
00:00 Intro
03:29 Barcelona in the Champions League
06:34 What is it like at FC Barcelona?
11:25 Xavi at Barcelona
14:55 Barcelona’s finances
18:38 Barcelona’s youngsters
29:40 Where have Barcelona been struggling?
34:30 What is next for Barcelona?
36:27 Final comments
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Bartomeu ruined Barcelona.
These guys are way better than ESPN pundits
Cubarsi's passing is insane like am not even tryin to hype him up but he passes like Rodri and he ain't even 18.
Pablo Torre, Gavi, Pedri, Yamal, Balde, Faye, Araujo, Cubarsi are not even in their Prime if you remember Xavi, Busquets and Iniesta, they didn't really hit there Prime till their late 20s like 26-28..
Plus Barca Athletic have signed some exceptional Talent's like Faye and Davich and the right Winger from Argentina, La Masia can't stop producing the Future looks bright they just need their new version of Pep am thinking Arteta.
Indeed. Cabarsi long passe to Fermin was amasing. Such a pitty that Fermin did not score having in front of him only the goalkeeper. I see Cabarsi and Faye the future 1st choice as central back defenders with Araujo as the 3rd option when the future coach may choose to play with 5 at the back. The lack of money have made a lot of people wise up. Why would they look for jam on dry bread outside when they have tiramisu un their own home court yard?
Glad Arteta is seen as a young replacement for Pep but hands off😅
So delusional. lol
My god I love Pol, get him on everything!
Im sorry but Suarez speaking on Barcelona is a bit biased...
What do you mean?
He looks like Suarez
cool Podcast from Suarez and Haaland talking about Barca
@@JE-eb2tn oh get it now 😂😂
Last game looked players were putting in the efforts…. And the game itself was good to watch… you guys haven’t change your attitude towards Xavi or the players. - media. Find something more lively to do with your life!
Right. They've lost one league game in 3 months, are in the Quarters of the Champions League and looking like a really good team. But the record is permanently stuck on *OMG Barcelona falling apart*.
"Theres a lot of seat that have reduced visibility"
And those seats are not for sale... they litteraly have a banner covering them.
Pol. Xavi was not out of line. There’s only so much you can take
In the same way there’s child labor laws, they need to implement a minutes limit on younger players.
It seems difficult to define. For example does a child participating in singing / acting in shows also comes under child labour?
biggest issue is lack of money making in laliga as a whole , 50 m euros to win laliga as prize money , relegated from the premier league is worth 100m pounds, they will push for a super league , and unfortunatley , there is already one , and thats the premier league
Its not lack of money. Barça generate almost a billion euros every year. Uts the FFP of LaLiga thta restric Barça and other LaLiga clubs to spend but for some reason doesn't restric Madrid🤔. Barça has lower their wages by almost 300m and restructured thier debt long ago and still Tebas(tge LaLiga president) restric us of spending. I think the new stadium will help but if Tebas does not change this BS FFP LaLiga teams(apart from Madrid)won't have the financial power to compete in Europe.
And the Prem is not only the prize money that gives them the financial power. The owner can still pump money in the clubs and call it loans. They are leveraging the club against their wealth. City, Chelsea eben Arsenal are doing this. Nothing to do with TV money. Look at what Everton and Forrest are being hit by right now. They were not spending only tge TV money
When have u seem an owner do that,united generate less money than Barca,the glazers take money out of the club and they,vs never invested a penny yet they have a massive spending power,why,,,they are incompetent but they aren't foolish at doing bs like Barca,how u get urselves into so much loan🤦buy players for 100+mil like griezman,Coutinho and dembele who flopped and u expect to be spending
The answer isnt to be reckless
@@ShawnGitahiagain that’s all to do with Bartomeu and he got kicked out. Barça today is have to rely on 16 year olds to win games
Pol is a legend!!
I love this podcast
Barcelona seem to be playing better and getting results. Not sure who they will get to replace Xavi will fit what they want so there better off sticking with him. He has won the title and he could get them to the CL final.
3:28 no don’t come on here and spread lies. The entrances were sold out way before the game so idk where you got that we struggled.
They just make things up to denigrate the club because they get a journalist from madrid
Dare i say
Cubarsi is one of the best ball playing defenders right now in the world
He’s played 9 times…you gotta earn that over more than a quarter of a season
lmfao
He is not a youngster , he is 20years old .
No, they cannot. I just saved you 40 minutes.
Short answer: they can but they shouldn't have to
Save from what?
They are going to get eliminated.
In the financial crevass Barca is now its only chance to climb out of if is to grow its own players in such a big numbers that many of them would become 1 st team players like Fermin, Cubarsi and others like Fatty, Fernan Torres, Xavi Simons could be sold for very good money.
Yes. La Massia could pool up the club financially and soccerly as an elite team.
No.
Spending this much money, and staking so much of the clubs futures, on transfers are absurd. Id imagine Barcelona fans could have withstood a few years of subpar performances and youth development if it meant a successful rebuild.
Pol I love you and your insights but stop saying "like" every three words, it's not necessary.
Not his first language bud
Remember our parents saying, "Log kya kehenge?"
Press and media basically Yehi log hain, jo kehetein hain. 🤷
Barca are an example of how pride not only causes but maintains and compounds incompetence. Got into a bad financial position, mortgaged their future to keep up appearances, and have already ‘Michael Owened’ two players & on track for more, years of potential talent they’re losing in the future whether bought or grown.
This is such a naive take. Barca losing €30-40m a year in TV revenue was a calculated gamble made against potentially earning more through matchday revenue and an immediate cash injection that was used mostly for economic stability. About €140m of the €400-500m that came in was spent on transfers, rest on loans previously taken and on other projects.
You're right about Pedri's overuse but not Ansu. He didn't play significant minutes his first and it was early in his second season during which that he picked up a contact injury that has so far derailed his career. Gavi picked up an ACL when was playing an inconsequential game for Spain..
mciheal owened who pedri? the major reason he got injured was because of spain, the year he played "alot" he played two full matches with barca as opposed to 17 full matches in spanish national team (they called him to Euros where he was played in all the minutes except 2) threee days later he was called to olympics in Tokyo. Ansu was really unlucky with his injuries. Barca has been really good with their man management.
The usual bad takes around barca. Selling la liga revenue is currently around 5% of the income. It will reduce further when new Camp Nou fully operating with more matchday revenue and Spotify sponsorship increasing. For Leeds United selling tv rights revenue wouldnt be good but we are talking about a massive money machine in a hot tourist city. They (barca) will always be a giant
I honestly can't hear the word "like" anymore, it's too much
If I’m being super honest this podcast is being run very incompetently. Never a coherent release time with the Spotify release and CZcams release, sometimes days are skipped with simply no video. It seems like there’s no actual release time for the videos and they’re just being dropped whenever the editor feels like. There are smaller channels more consistent than this. Try to do better
Freecelona can have David Moyes at the end of the season 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I hope so. But after more than a decade of irritating piety and their arrogant belief in their specialness as a club, it's amusing to watch them struggle, even if Spanish football IS better with a strong Barcelona.
Arrogant? Who is winning almost every Premier league? The only arrogant one are the English
@@Kriscur20Wait, so you don't think Barca are arrogant?
@@Kriscur20, I'm not English. Your remark is meaningless.
Barcelona's transfer and financial policies were ridiculous and hubristic, and now they're paying the price.
@@rob776 Thats a complete different point that you made before😂
@@kauswekazilimani3736in what way are they arrogant? Because they have a style of pkay and won't change it??? A style that has brought 2 trebles? Only 2 clubs have done that and Barça is one of them