Do you remember when Barcelona sacked Ernesto Valverde and tried to hire Xavi Hernandez only for him to reject them and instead force them to turn to Quique Setien?

Do you remember when Lionel Messi called out Sporting Director Eric Abidal for his comments about players’ work-rate under Valverde ?

Do you remember when six of the club’s directors resigned in protest at the way the club was being run? Incredibly all of that happened in the last six months.

“[Ousmane] Dembelé, [Philippe] Coutinho and [Ivan] Rakitic will be out this summer.”

The Coutinho signing can be defended, it seemed like a logical move at the time, but Dembele came out of nowhere, after just two seasons of professional football.

Other players they signed that summer include Nelson Semedo, Gerard Deulofeu, Yerry Mina and Marlon. Since then Malcom came and went whilst the jury is out on Junior Firpo and Emerson. Before that you have the likes of Andre Gomes, Paco Alcacer and Aleix Vidal. Barcelona have never had a perfect hit rate in the transfer market but recently it has become absolutely chaotic.

Right now the judgement is “are Barcelona only as good as they have been because of Lionel Messi ?”

yes to sone extent.. he is the only shinning light there and whenever he have a bad night, barca suffers and dts Y they are dieing to get neyma

You made a point. Even the griezmann they signed is not living up to expectation. I have always said if Messi leaves barca, then fowl yansh don open.

Nothing happens to Barca, it is a transition stave that is normal for every team. It happened to Madrid, it happened to Man United and Barca too will soon be off the hook. Barca will survive without messi, it's only success rate that will bẹ minimal.