"Messi is ashamed". And it's not because of Levante's hand (or the player pulling the blanket)

The mess that is cooked in silence at the Camp Nou

Barça had been playing with fire for months . He burned, and a lot, in Rome , and he did it again last Sunday against Levante . Two clubs are very fat for the Barça players who, despite having achieved Liga and Champions , are giving the reason to the many voices that predict that Ernesto Valverde's team is plummeting.

Among them those of a cracks that was formed in the quarry and that now, far from the Camp Nou and the pressure of the club, does not bite the tongue. And it's none other than Marc Crosas . The Catalan, long before the disaster of the Ciutat de València , launched a warning: things are not doing well in Barça .

And it was very strong regarding the different state between the Catalans and Real Madrid: " If (Madrid) win four Champions in five years in the era of the best player in history at Barça, some should fall the face of shame.".

Two opposite poles

The painful defeat against a modest as is the Levante has been nothing more than a confirmation. Painful for many, but that was seen coming. Of course, the problem comes from far away. While the Whites are on a roll, especially in Europe , where they have dominated the Champions in recent years, the Catalans are shipwrecked year after year.

And in a resounding way. Last season who painted their faces was Juventus , and this year it was none other than Roma who, despite having everything against them, came back from a tie that left ridiculed Ernesto Valverde . A ridiculous that will be covered by the double, but that may be even greater in the future.

Leo Messi and the lost generation

And it is that, no matter how many people do not say anything, there are many opinions in the Camp Nou against the management of the team in recent years. A team that, little by little, has been crumbling.

What must have been a golden age at Barça (it was at the time) has ended up in a team that depends exclusively on a Leo Messi who is too alone. When it is not there, the equipment sinks in a worrying way.

The signings of the last years, have been, the great majority, a disaster, and a generation that was going to make history has been spoiled. The Gerard Piqué , Sergio Busquets , Jordi Alba , etc., were at the disposal of, with the best player in history at his side, to destroy everything. But they have not succeeded.

Among other things because the technical secretariat has been sticking blind year after year. Except for the signings of Samuel Umtiti and Philippe Coutinho , the rest have not contributed anything.

Neither André Gomes, Arda Turan, Paco Alcácer, Digne, Yerry Mina , Semedo, Dembélé, Denis Suárez or Thomas Vermaelen have raised the level of a template that now makes evident its lack of power.

Barça falls while Real Madrid grows

All this is what has led to the fact that, now that the heavyweights of the team are getting older and it is time to regenerate the locker room, the big world cracks are turning their backs on the culés proposals.

And, to the pain of Messi and many Barça players, they see the Santiago Bernabéuas the best fields to go to play today. There are many players who have seen that the golden age of the Catalan team has passed and now they are betting on the meringues.

And players who, or are already world stars, or are on the way. You only need to see the names that are being related to Madrid to realize the big difference.

Neymar , who left the Barcelona seeing that thingsnot going well, Mohamed Salah , Eden Hazard or Paulo Dybala , among many others, are waiting for the call of a Real that is fit and that notified from within that They have equipment to last many more years.

This summer will be a summer moved in the Bernabéu , and Florentino is willing to, now that he sees that Barça is touched, finish him off. Galactic come that, added to the current template, will make the signings of Barca stay in nothing.

And all this before the watchful eye of a Messi who, as pointed Crosas , is more than embarrassed to see how, in his best years, Madrid is passing over.