Breaking Bad: The hecatombe of the Barça in 2020, go through step

The 2020 finishes and does it loaded of doubts and worries, in the middle of the pandemia that affects to all the planet. To level futbolístico, has been a grey year in all the senses, more still for the FC Barcelona, that closes the decade without having won a title in the last 12 months, something that, does some years, was unthinkable in the Camp Nou.

'Breaking Bad' Is, maybe, one of the best forms to describe what lives to day of today the Barça, a team accustomed to be in the highest, that happened to leave doubts and disappointments on the way and that forgot of how win important commitments. A club that, compared with which began the decade (with Pep Guardiola in the benches), has broken and, with the feelings that has left, only could go from bad to worse.

The situation of the Barça is not something new. In the eliminatory of the Champions League in front of the Rome and Liverpool, in 2018 and 2019, respectively, the team already had showed that it could not give for more. However, the achievement of other titles, like LaLiga or Glass, had maquillado the crisis. In 2020, the Barcelona club collapsed, from the beginning of year and did not attain to recover, to weigh that Ronald Koeman arrived with the intention to revolutionise to the team.

January, the beginning of the nightmare

The year began with a trip of Eric Abidal and Óscar Grau to Doha to negotiate with Xavi Hernández his return to the Camp Nou, this time like trainer. The ex culé did not finish accepting. However, that was not the 'highlight' of the month. The Barça fell humiliated in the semifinals of the Supercopa of Spain, in front of the Athletic of Madrid, and Ernesto Valverde was destituido like trainer. Against of all the prognoses, Quique Setién took the charge, but the situation, far to improve, ratified that Valverde did what could with a totally worn staff.

February, stress the problems (in all the senses)

Although February is the month in which it celebrates the love and the friendship, in the FC Barcelona was the month in which it began (or gave continuity) one 'war' between the players and the directors. Eric Abidal had declared in an interview that some players were not happy with Valverde and that by this reason, the trainer had been sacked.

To Lionel Messi did not like him the statements and finished it zarandeando to defend to him and the rest of his mates. As if it was little, days afterwards the Barça remained deleted of the Glass of Rey, in hands of the Athletic Bilbao and the crisis, sportive and institutional, stressed .

March, tropiezos, coronavirus and war 'changing room-managerial'

The Barça began the third month of the year with a defeat in front of the eternal rival, the Real Madrid, in the Classical of Santiago Bernabéu. Twelve days afterwards, began the pandemia of the coronavirus and the club saw the first economic consequences, by what had asked to his players reduce his wages to avoid a deeper crisis. The problem was that the Barça did to see to his players like selfish and that did not have intentions to go down the wage, by what Messi and company jumped again to defend . The footballers finished accessing to a reduction of 70% of his wage, more 2% so that the rest of the employees did not see modified his income.

Abril, new institutional scandal

Without football by the confinement, in the Barça did not detain the function regarding the problems of the club. In April, the then president of the club, Josep María Bartomeu, asked the resignation of Emili Rousaud and Enrique Tombas like consequence of the scandal of 'I3 Ventures', a company that eroded, through Facebook, the figure of ex directors, ex players and current footballers.

May, see the first effects of the crisis

The Camp Nou fulfilled his third month with the enclosed doors and saw the big consequences, to economic level, that this meant (and continues). The sale of entrances, visits to the museum and, especially, the television rights, supposed big part of the income of the team and, without parties, the club estimated his economic losses, of around 67 million euros.

June, return to LaLiga

The football went back but the ones of Quique Setién did not give for more, in spite of having happened so many months without playing. It is necessary to remember that, before the confinement, had remained leaders of LaLiga but, just after the return of the football, lose the leadership easily by own errors. While the Real Madrid won all his parties (with controversy or no), the Barça tripped in front of the Seville, Celtic of Vigo... To this point, the relation between the trainer and the changing room, in addition to the directive, was unsustainable and the effects saw in the field.

Julio, Messi explodes

The situation of the culés was in his worst point and finished yielding the title of LaLiga to the Real Madrid. The negativismo was evident and the footballers, staff, fanatical and the whole planet knew that the Barça no longer was to compete. Lionel Messi, totally disappointed and frustrated, exploded against of his club: "Already I said time backwards that if we followed of this way, went to be very difficult that won the Champions. It remains showed that nreached you neither to win the League".

August, Champions, Bayern, Messi... Chaos

In the month of August were so many the things that happened in the FC Barcelona that can not choose an only 'highlight' to speak of the month. After having stray LaLiga, the club suffered the defeat more humillante of his history, in the Champions League, in front of the Bayern (2-8) and announced drastic changes: the exit of the trainer, Eric Abidal and of a few players 'transferibles'. It arrived Koeman and reigned the hope, but shortly after Lionel Messi sent a burofax communicating him to the club his decision to leave . The Argentinian based in a clause in his agreement that allows him abandon, of free way, the club, as long as it announce it ten days after finishing the season.

September, new beginnings

The uncertainty regarding Messi remained until 4 September, when the Argentinian expressed that it went to remain because "it would not carry never to trial to the club of my life". However, it aimed that the team did not have project (neither future, practically). In any one of the cases, the Argentinian returned to the trainings and the Barça, headed by Koeman, despega with a goleada in the beginning of LaLiga, in front of the Villarreal (4-0), but in the middle of a vote of censorship against of Josep María Bartomeu and his directive.

October, resignation of Bartomeu

The FC Barcelona lived, in this month, a Russian mountain, to sportive and institutional level. It had confirmed that there would be a vote of censorship and Josep María Bartomeu, in front of the pressure, finished resigning of his charge, six years, nine months and four days after turning into president.

To final of month, the Barça tripped in front of the Seville, Getafe and finally, in front of the Real Madrid, in the Camp Nou, in a party in which the VAR was controversial, but that was marked by the little capacity of reaction of the culés, something that accompanies them until the sun of today.

November, injuries and irregularity

Ansu Fati Was the first that fell lesionado, the first week of the month and is drop until finals of March after breaking the meniscus in front of the Betis. 15 days afterwards, in the defeat in front of the Atleti, fell Gerard Hammered and Sergi Roberto. The central will be drop until April, roughly, whereas Sergi could reappear at the beginning of year.

In the institutional field, the precandidatos to the elections begin his campaigns and Carles Tusquets, the president of the Managing Commission declared that "it would have sold to Messi, economically was the best for the club".

December, the worst final of year for the Barça

The culés finished the year as they began it, with doubts and full of disappointments. This month, however, the Barça gave some joys, like the record that Messi surpassed of Peeled or the good level of Pedri González, but the irregularity marked the end of the 2020. The team continued in his Russian mountain and happened to convince to lose, to go back to win and give hopes, but afterwards confirm that lyou problems in Can Barça are really deep and that, to day of today, the team is not in capacities to contest any title. The FC Barcelona closed the year with a tie in front of the Eibar, of sixth in the classification (to ten points of the leadership) and with a Messi that, definitively, is questioning if follow or no in the club of his life.