Let’s not think about the United thing anymore

Many meetings of leaders, statements, everything is pending but Ukraine will not stop. And luckily, they say the Spanish won’t go there. Where there are Spaniards is at Old Trafford. It is the return of a draw against another that is very good and it will be very good to continue. It is not like that and there is no need to think about it. In 2003, in the elections to succeed Gaspart, Laporta clearly won, especially the candidate bassoffers the possibility of signing Beckham -impossible thing because Madrid already accepted him-, something that his friend gave him Pini Zahavi and that it is important to partner decision making. He also said January who wants to make Barça the new Manchester United. Over time, the successes of our club under the command of this president have made the fans happy and proud. Rijkardd and especially Guardiola They led a group of top players where they remember me being Xavi, iniesta, Ronaldinho, That’s it, decoration, heart, Keitaand showed up Messiwhich brought back the smile to the great fans of culé.

These successes coincided exactly with United’s downfall. Ferguson, the eternal, did not dare to do without some talented footballers who gave him great success and, as always happens in these cases, the group weakened. This group even beat United, in Rome with a victory we still remember, and especially in England itself in the final at Wembley in 2011. Since then, United have dropped down a level, overtaken by City, Liverpool and even Tottenham and Barça that lasted for a few more seasons until finally, also due to wrong signings and hasty decisions, he fell into a less powerful situation at the football level. They are the ups and downs of the clubs that the fans hardly understand although in many cases they rely on the drivers of the group, the clubs in this case. And if they make the right decisions, especially about the coach and signings, things work out. And if not, there are other competitors who are better and better than you.

Barça fell about three years ago, maybe the defeat in Lisbon was an ‘uppercut’ of the kind that leaves you on the canvas, but with these changes it has woken up and although far from the highest level, now it are on their way to winning the League. Beware that in Europe we forget that the League is the competition of the whole season and the one that the fan has celebrated for decades with more enthusiasm. At the same time, United, which has been at the bottom, based on a lot of investment, a lot of changes of coaches and a lot of signings, will come out of the hole it fell into with the ‘help’ of Barça. It is no consolation that we are like this, outside of Europe, because the other day I entered a famous restaurant and angry people asked me what happened, but one day covers the first. And Barça, at the end of this season, has some very clear duties to professionally take over the file and so that the partner looks again with hope. Such are the things in popular, followed and often ignored sports.

One more thing. I was watching Alcoyano against a good Barça Atlètic on Saturday and I was thinking about that phrase “you are more moral than Alcoyano, who lost a game 10-0 and their players still threw balls to -waste of time”. In this regard, I remember Nàstic and Lleida, who reached the First Division and are now in the lower categories. And then I remembered Zaragoza, winner of the Cup Winners’ Cup with a very difficult course and now suffering in the Second Division. And this Deportivo of my friend also came to my mind Lendoiro, who came to win the Cup at Old Trafford and Madrid on Centenary day and who is now lost in the history of the First Federation or who knows. And I don’t forget Hércules, the only club where I worked (as a manager) apart from Barça. In Arsenio As a coach we are fifth in the League. Now they don’t appear in newspapers anymore. It is the greatness or the opposite of football. If you do it wrong, you go down and don’t come back.