There are many descriptions that Barcelona fans can give this year, but it is certain that the team, players and management want to erase him from the club's history, because he deserves the title of "a year to be forgotten" for the Catalan team.
The beginning of 2021 - specifically in February - was with the team's exclusion from the Champions League final 5-2 with a total of two matches, and French star Kylian Mbappe scored 4 goals in both matches.
In March, Josep Maria Bartomeu, the former president of Barca, who resigned four months before the end of his term in office, was arrested, after police raided the team's offices in connection with a case known at the time as "Barca Gate".
That issue arose more than a year ago after an investigation by Radio Cadena Ser into an alleged campaign of defamation against prominent figures in the club - such as its star and former captain Lionel Messi or its defender Gerard Pique - on social networks, organized by a company working for the club.
And the tragedy continues this year with the victory of Atletico Madrid in May, when Barca fans watched the “Atletti” players - led by Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez (the former Barca striker, who moved at the beginning of the 2020-2021 season for about 8 million dollars) - score decisive goals in a journey Madrid team to win the League title.
And in August, the final blow to the Barca fans, who saw the team’s star, leader and inspiration, Lionel Messi, announce his departure from the club after 21 years in the “Camp Nou”.
And only a month later, the fans were shocked to see her lover Messi wearing a Paris Saint-Germain shirt. She did not imagine that a day would come and see Messi wearing a shirt other than the "Bulugrana".
As if all of the above was not enough, October came and brought with it another Clasico loss against Real Madrid, to be the fourth loss for the Catalan team from its traditional rival, and following this loss, Dutch coach Ronald Koeman and one of the club’s legends was sacked, to be the third coach to be said in less than two years. .
But the dismissal of Koeman and the arrival of Xavi did not stop the bleeding, as Barcelona were eliminated from the group stage in the Champions League for the first time since the 2001-2002 season, and he scored only two goals and conceded 9 goals.
The Catalan team finished this year in seventh place in the La Liga standings, 18 points behind Barcelona, the leaders in the championship.