I often get asked why I’m a Barça fan. Or, more specifically, what made me a Barça fan.
The answer is, and always has been, very clear. Identity. Culture. A way of being that transcends anything money can buy.
Everyone is different. I’m not here to tell you there’s a ‘right’ way to love a football club. But for me, watching a club so deeply connected and committed to an identity was, for lack of a better phrase, just so bloody cool.
And while it hasn’t always been smooth sailing, and we have absolutely lost our way at times, the beauty has always been in finding our way back. Back to the identity laid down by the great Johan Cruyff decades ago. Back to what makes Barça, Barça.
I watch clubs throw hundreds of millions at their squads season after season only to get nowhere. Then I look at us, rebuilding from the lowest of lows after making those very same mistakes, turning once again to our identity and achieving infinitely more than essentially unlimited wealth could buy.
What does that speak to?
For me, it’s simple. Our identity is priceless.
🚨🔴⚪️ Gil Marin: “I’m extremely sorry about this situation because we’ve been working with Julián Alvarez for some time now, and he’s a great person, a great professional and a great footballer, but he is completely confused”.
“Right now, he is going through a very difficult situation, both personally and professionally”.
@fuckofftekena Hopefully there’s patience and stability in the vision. Can’t go and get an Amorim or Allegri after Carrick if he doesn’t stay very long
🔵🔴 Rodri: “I always wanted Barça, this is where I wanted to be”.
“There are the best players in the world here, and you have to always be at the required level”.
@fuckofftekena As for my 9, na time. But I no go move for anybody if ain’t the absolute profile we want. Fantastic stance from my club. We go rugged am dey go for pitch until then
@fuckofftekena You get? The problem with united imo is, for years they’ve never seen a project beyond 50%. Maybe Ole’s is a bit more but time and patience is needed. Expectations should also be tempered
+ it ain’t just abt the books alone. You’re moving well as it is anyway. To be Sustained?