The Barça falls apart: the worst start since 1987

With the defeat this Saturday against Cádiz (2-1), Koeman's Barcelona staged the worst start of the League since the three-point score was implemented in the 1995/96 season. Never until now, in the first ten days, the Blaugrana had added such a poor balance of results, with four wins, two draws and four defeats, adding a total of 14 points.

Contrast this disappointing start in the domestic competition – he is 12 points behind Atlético de Madrid – with his military walk in the Champions League, where it is the only team in the competition that has managed to achieve full victories, five out of five.

However, his journey in LaLiga is being as hesitant as it is erratic. The defeat against Cádiz, with a second goal that has lifted all the ghosts of Anfield at once, It certainly exemplifies the thorny situation the team is going through, which has already let a whopping 16 points escape along the way.

In this way, the Cadiz team joins Getafe (1-0), Real Madrid (1-3) and Atlético de Madrid (1-0), as executioners of this Barça. Others, such as Sevilla (1-1) and Alavés (1-1), also knew how to paint the face of the Blaugrana.

In fact, with numbers in hand, and if we were to translate the three-point scoring system since the League began, It would be necessary to go back to the 1987/88 season to see a worse start for Barça. In that campaign, in the first ten days, the team would have added 13 points, with four wins, one draw and five losses. This bleak start did not leave anyone at the club indifferent: President Josep Lluís Núñez dismissed Terry Venables after the first four days -they added one victory and three defeats- to replace him with Luis Aragonés, who could not take off much more either, finishing the competition in sixth place.

Obviously the context this season is very different from that year. Koeman's position is not in jeopardy in any case, at least until June 30, 2021. First, because the Management Board does not have the power to make a decision of this scale, unless Carles Tusquets says otherwise, and second, because the club prioritizes economic issues rather than sports, considering this course as little more than transition.

What does seem clear is that the bet on the Dutch coach will have a short route when the new president arrives, since to lead a new project, which excites Barcelona fans, it does not seem that Koeman is the most suitable candidate or the one that awakens greater unanimity among the partner.