Two draws y. .. Revelation!

Twelve of the fifteen titles contested. A style of play that has been an evolution for football. The top three players in their ranks last year. A coach who is now History of the sport. But what matters above all after two draws? Nothing at all. Ties FC Barcelona against Real Sociedad and AC Milan symbolize the end of a cycle, the fall of the giant, the collapse of an empire ... in short, an apocalypse as absolute as inevitable. At least that's what we have been selling many of the prophets of football patriotism in recent days, in a coordinated and tuned cackling so that, indirectly, reveals to us who have long been rehearsing in his crypt, awaiting the first opportunity that arose.

Two draws. They've only taken two draws for the future is black Blaugrana. Messidependencia, poor planning, sports, template unbalanced, bad physical preparation ... and, of course, Guardiola has run out of ideas, Xavi is getting old, grown players are sold or ninguneo, etcetera, etcetera. The list is so long divine revelations that publishing it would require numbered verses. It is true that among all the hodgepodge of rulings and sponsorship is true, but you must separate the wheat from the chaff. And there are a lot of straw.

Clear that the club has messidependencia, how to not have it! Like the Bulls had Jordan, Indurain's Banesto, Maradona's Argentina or DiStefano Madrid. The issue of workforce planning has every reason to be. There is no doubt that Barca sports officials, in particular, Guardiola and Zubizarreta, have risked a lot by not reinforce the center of defense. Puyol being in the state where you are, that is, the absolute uncertainty on how your body will respond after complicated injury he suffered in January, the club has only two stations in your template: Piqué and font. Pique is a secure, more profitable the signing of the decade, but Fontás still green, as seen on Saturday with their incomprehensible passivity in the second goal of the Royal Society.

Abidal and Mascherano have yielded surprising as central to solvency when the script demanded, but a remedy should be more than that, an option for recourse in cases of necessity. However, it is also true that the club is having problems at the center of your back during all the Age Guardiola and here are the results. Recall, for example, that in the two finals of Champions played (and won), the club played with two midfielders and central, Toure in the first and Mascherano in the second. Anyway, not having signed a center this summer, ironically, one that rang was Thiago Silva, the manager of Camp Nou last night silence is to re-try your luck and play with fire.

Returning to the main path, that of the prophets of doom Blaugrana. This augurs the end of the Age Guardiola have short memories or, more likely, selective memory. Do not remember, or do not want to remember that the Pep Team began its life making a point six in the league, and last year lost in the 3 rd day at home with later dropped Hercules, or draws and defeat the Rubin Kazan in the last two champions ... In all these cases suffer a barrage of predictions, Guardiola first team was too big, after it was falling apart ... always the same tune with variations appropriate. And of course, based on repeat over and over again, one day that will require us to give them the reason, because sooner or later Real will best season that the club is only a matter of time. I congratulate them in advance not to say.

But in addition to memory, you also have to have eyes and ears. Remember, for example, the critical resigned Guardiola has been doing every summer, fully explicit this year when he said that the club "before it was preseason and now tours." It is undeniable that the template is still blaugrana full physical in this sense ishas been lower than all its rivals, starting with Madrid in the Cup. Nothing new under the sun. This has been planned as physical preparation Guardiola since taking the bench for Barca: to lengthen the holiday and have to be in September, below all in exchange for delaying the peak shape to match the second part of each of the two rounds of the League.

Another rooster crow if the months go by and there comes a time when the club lost the rope with Madrid Champions League or falls. Until then, all I can do is cackle prophecies, an entertainment option that we should respect it, it is known, pollutes the minds of some, but not the environment. Ah! And it comes free ...

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