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In Spain, analysts say: "Barcelona is dying, it needs to be changed from the bottom up"
Commentators analyzed the humiliation: "Replacing Stein will not be enough. Many have to take responsibility." Rio Ferdinand argues: Messi should consider leaving
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Saturday, 15 August 2020, 08:47Hours pass, and around the world are still trying to digest Bayern Munich's inconceivable 2: 8 over Barcelona in the Champions League quarter-finals. "'Weak, without character, someone who allows others to do as they please,' is the dictionary definition of 'sluggish,'" the SS read, "and it accurately describes Kika Stein's humiliation. This Barcelona is flawed from management, through a coach. Old-fashioned to an incompetent team. Seeing the best player in the world alone it hurts the soul. The problems will not be solved only with the replacement of Stein. Barcelona need to be changed from the bottom up, be grateful for the generation that was but know that rebuilding will take more than a year. We have to take responsibility. "
"Marka" journalist Hugo Carasso added: "It hurts more than the losses to Roma and Anfield, because the wound deepens in a team without a soul. The reality could not be worse. Lionel Messi alone can not suffice against a team at the level of Bayern Munich, and it is hard to argue that he is not At its peak this season. " His friend at the Spanish newspaper Jose Luis Hortado added: "Bayern played like Barcelona of yesteryear. Another 20 years, when someone checks, he will not understand how Messi's Barcelona won the Champions League only once in nine years. How many changes are needed in the squad? Six? Seven? eight?"
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Newspaper headlines in Spain
Luis Mascaro of Sport wrote: "Barcelona closed the season with a terrible evening, one of the worst in history. Dismissing Stein will not be enough, because Barcelona is dying. It is the end of an era and the surgery must be done. Bayern were so much better that it is embarrassing. Barcelona was devoid of "Answers, but Messi could not do anything, but he is not the problem. The problem is everyone around him - on the lawn and in the offices."
In England, Rio Ferdinand wondered: "What does Messi think when he returns home today? Does he want to spend the time he has left in this uniform, given the abilities of all this squad, while looking at the rest of the team in Europe? Can he just sit there and wait? "In football it passes very quickly, in the next two years he will still have the strength to influence games. Will he want to continue to do that, but not compete for titles?"
Asked who should be the Catalans' next coach, Manchester United and England's former stopper replied: "There is a huge amount of work there. Someone is already clearing Stein's desk, but it's an almost impossible job. Who will go there now?"