Year I after Messi

Defeated clamorously at levels of institutional image Y world projection, Barça these days are facing a job that they do not know if they will be able to complete, because the empty that Messi leaves it will not be able to fill. Successfully transforming is a gigantic challenge. From now on, surely as since May 1996, when Núñez threw out Cruyff by the brave, the years at Barça will be counted before and after Messi. And building a new winning Barça, more in the situation of economic ruin and social and managerial chaos that is noticed, does not seem a matter of pressing a button. Whether it is disastrous or not, it is clear that, now, Barça is starting a new cycle.

There are a million things around Barça. But all of them have been reduced to anecdotes, even their debut in LaLiga (20:00) before Real 'olympic', which premieres the silvers of three magnificent players, Oyarzabal, Zubimendi Y Merino, who have wanted to be at the command of Imanol (follow the game live on AS.com).

Koeman's Barça 2.0 is the house of trouble. To begin with, it does not have its titular goalkeeper, Ter Stegen, patellar tendon operated of the right knee. Your greatest hope, Ansu Fati, also follow out of action. He has not been able to get players beyond Matheus Y Junior, to fix your pay cut and you have signed up at the last minute to Depay and Eric for work and thanks from Pique in an improvisation exercise that does not speak in the best way of Mateu Alemany's first months of work.

That not to mention lost players in limbo like Dembélé (again seriously injured in the Eurocup) or Coutinho; and of operations that now lose meaning What Omen. The Real champion, who today will not have one of her stars, Isak, season starts with few additions (Ryan, Rico), the concepts of Imanol well assimilated a long time ago and a continuity line and promising. Everything the opposite of Barça of the break.