We were so lucky when we "found" Messi out of nowhere and we have built our best ever generation around Messi.
If we haven't found Messi, who knows if we would have won 3 CLs in the last few years.
Anyway, if Odegaard turns out into a world class player similar to Messi and CR, we are in huge problems.
Also, some people are saying things like: he is ruined in Real, he should have came to Barca.
People forget that the myth about La Masia was built during 2006-2010.
When I watched Barca's matches in 1998 or in 2002, no one was ever saying anything about La Masia. It was the same average youth academy, like any other in the world.
So, it is not true that we always had the best academy in the world, and that other academies are a crap, and that other players will rotten in other teams.
For example, around 2000', Real had Raul, Casillas, Guti and Pavon from their youth academy, and they won 3 Cls in 5 years with those players.
In those years, we produced only 2-3 players in 10+ years (Xavi and Puyol, and Guardiola looong before that) and 1000s of players like Oscar Garcia, Roger Garcia, De la Pena, Celades and similar who were good players, but not good enough for Barcelona.
So, it can all change in a couple of Seasons.
We can easily again turn into an average youth academy, the same we were for 15 years before Pep's era.
And Real can easily turn into "a new Barcelona" with 2-3 good Spanish players and one superstar in Odegaard.
And honestly, seeing the level of our youth players in the last few years (Tello, Cuenca, Deulo, Sandro, Munir, Adama, Halilovic), it is more likely that we will return to the times when we had just a normal/average youth academy, like any other top team.
Academy that will produce a good player in 2-3 years and that's it.
More or less, any better european team produces a one decent domestic talent once in a 2-3-4 years, isn't it?
(Except Real Madrid in the last 10-ish Seasons). But don't be fooled by that.
Real can also get lucky with a few players like Raul, Casillas and Guti, the same as we were with Xavi, Messi, Iniesta, Busquets in one era.
Anyway, I am very sad because Odegaard is joining Real.
I would give all of our youths for him (Deulo, Adama, Halil, Sandro, Lee etc).
