Another hit. It was felt by many but the option, distant and ephemeral, which was mathematics, was extinguished this Wednesday by Inter Milan, who with their victory sentenced the elimination, yet another, of FC Barcelona.
And that is the problem, that the matter became daily, that reinforcements were never saved and that spending in the current season, close to 200 million euros, was always like that, high and ambitious, even with a Lionel Messi of 555 million euros in four years (as revealed by the newspaper El Mundo) to end up with the same poor results.
Today the one on the bench is Xavi but before that other coaches succumbed, more experienced and winners, incapable of restoring the shine to the Catalan team. With this new failure marks eight years of bad results in the Champions League, which do not respect legends, leaders, good intentions… nothing. This is how others said goodbye before this new failure:
2015-16 (Louis Henry):
Eliminated in the quarterfinals against Atlético.
2016-17 (Louis Henry):
Eliminated in the quarterfinals against Juventus.
2017-18 (Ernesto Valverde):
Eliminated in the quarterfinals against Roma.
2018-19 (Ernesto Valverde):
Eliminated in the semi-finals against Liverpool.
2019-2020 (Valverde-Quique Setién):
Eliminated in the quarterfinals against Bayern.
2020-21 (Ronald Koeman):
Eliminated in the round of 16 against PSG.
2021-2022 (Koeman-Sergi Barjuán-Xavi Hernández):
Eliminated in groups with Bayern, Benfica, Dinamo kyiv.
20222-23 (Xavi Hernandez):
Eliminated in group stage with Inter, Bayern and Viktoria Plizen
