5 Talking Points from Barcelona's January transfer window | La Liga 2019-2020 

#1 Dependence on Lionel Messi set to continue till the summer

Barcelona is dependent on Lionel Messi

With over 600 goals for Barcelona, Lionel Messi is unarguably the greatest player in the club's history and in many ways the best player to ever play the game.

His extraterrestrial abilities have seen him bail his side out on numerous occasions but it is pertinent to note that the mercurial Argentine is very much human with remarkably low shortcomings on the field.

It would not be far-fetched to suggest that Barcelona have been over-dependent on their skipper in recent years and this much is evident in their recent failures on the continent as well as their struggles earlier in the current campaign.

With Luis Suarez injured and Antoine Griezmann yet to hit the heights expected, the January transfer window offered Barcelona the opportunity to strengthen their forward line but a failure to do so means that the club would have an overreliance on Lionel Messi for the rest of the campaign and as past seasons have proved, this could be a recipe for disaster.

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