#4 Disappearance of the ‘Barcelona way’
When Pep Guardiola left Barcelona, he left a clear brand of football which was then being called the ‘Barcelona’ way. They played in short passes, kept possession and hunted their opponents like hungry dogs.
Since he has left, they have kept the possession aspect of things, but almost everything else has disintegrated of sorts. Under Luis Enrique, the only thing which was done enough to call it a ‘style’ is how soon they got the ball to the trio of Luis Suarez, Lionel Messi, and Neymar.
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Given, they have those three players in the team, it isn’t a bad tactic by any stretch of the imagination. But the ethos upon which the famous club was brought up was the collective, rather than the individual.
In the game against Leganes, they fielded 10 non-Spanish players, something they never did in during their whole La Liga history. That is a perfect representation of the change at Barcelona in the last three years.
