Some of you are twisting the main point.
I am not saying that Barca is not good at creating 1st division players or players for top5 countries.
The question is: WE are BARCA. We need top level players.
And an invented propaganda myth (around 2010' while we were on top) was that La Masia is the best in the world and fans often said: we need to go back to our roots and produce players from La Masia (like we always were).
That point is unsustainable.
Before Xavi, Iniesta in 90s, La Masia was very average.
Then came Xavi-Iniesta plus Fabregas, Pique, Pedro and the myth was created.
After them, again we had 100s of duds and nothing else.
About these numbers from above how La Masia is on top in creating players from La Liga or Top5 1st divisions in Europe, there are also some things to consider:
1. we have cheated like no one. Remember that we were banned for breaking the rules and signing way too many foreign kids in 00s and 10s.
And during our cheating days, of course that we had more young talent than RM, Man Utd or Psg.
And today, when those players are 15, 28 or 33 and playing all around Europe = stats say that La Masia was good.
Yeah, it was good because we cheated and now we see fruits of that with 50 random average players all around Europe.
But, inspite of cheating, we weren't able to produce good players for our team after Messi.
2. the 2nd factor is: when we were on top of Europe and when we were cheating with signing huge amounts of foreign talents (kids), back then kids and their families wanted to come here because the chances were high that a kid will develop well at La Masia and earn a lot of money one day.
Today, we can't do that anymore because we can't cheat with a number of signed kids.
But also, since our 1st team is not on top of Europe and La Masia is dry for like a decade, new kids from Africa or Europe are rather moving to other fancy destinations like Red Bull, Psg or Man City.
So, not only that La Masia is dry for a decade, but also, logic implies that it will get even worse in the next decade due to these 2 factors from above.
All in all, there is not too much logic or hope that La Masia will produce something magnificent, but still, whenever a new kid from La Masia comes (Gavi, Balde), people are, as always, losing their heads and overrate the players by 300-400%.
Just because he is young and from a mighty La Masia.
I am writing negatively from some time about our club, but as I have said, when you remove emotions, there is absolutely nothing positive to look at.
1. the current 1st team is bad
2. there are no star power players
3. there are no leaders
4. La Masia is dry for a decade
5. and all factors indicate that nothing extraordinary will come from it anytime soon
6. majority of new signings (young players) are very bad
7. we don't have any money
8. we splashed even more money which we don't have on Torres, Raphinha, granny Lewa
9. we sold a part of our future tv rights to have a good team now, which we don't have
10. we got KOd in a group stage of a CL twice. Not only that our image got worse, but we also lost tons of money, and we are already in huge debts
11. Pep's curse: we can't move on from Pep's ideas, Pep's years, Pep's way of playing. A mighty Barca DNA. We will be stuck in time for who knows how long.
And then we are stuck in time with bad coaches, bad players, with dry La Masia, with sporting directors chasing past and not moving forward. And on top of all, we don't have money.
12. bad coaches
13. La Liga getting weaker and weaker each new year with top talents leaving and all of us earn less money
14. EPL and oil teams are fancy and hot teams now. Sponsors, fans and players are running to them, not to us.
But, our fans and socios don't change.
Majority still live under the ideas:
1. there is nothing wrong with our system. We only need better players and we will fly again (Xavi probably thinks the same: why changing anything? We just need a few more signings)
2. people also think that nothing is wrong with La Masia. Yet it only produces 168cm duds with 45 kgs. There is zero work on physique or psychology in our club.
3. the board is constantly hiring Barca DNA coaches. Because we are proud, that is our identity. And: it worked 15 years ago, so why wouldn't it work again? Well, Ac Milan worked in 1989, but it doesn't work in 2022. Brazilian NT team was once by far the best in the world. Today: they won't win a WC for the next 50 years.
So again, when you remove emotions and delusions, it is really shocking to watch our club and decisions and directions they take.
When you take everything from the above into the account, it seems that we are not even near the bottom.
The worst years are yet to come.
