Between Ferguson's departure and Messi's shock... Why did Barcelona return and United not return?!

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How did Barcelona return to its best level in a few months after the departure of Lionel Messi, while Manchester United is still lost after the departure of Alex Ferguson?!

The results and performance achieved by Barcelona in recent weeks show a very rapid return to the top of European and Spanish competitions, after everyone thought that the era of the Catalan club was over.

Quarters against Atletico Madrid, Valencia, Naples, and the top teams in Spain and Europe, and finally against Real Madrid at its Santiago Bernabeu stadium, all results that demonstrated the return of the Catalan club.

Given what Xavi Hernandez has achieved, some may wonder why Barcelona's return to its best form was so rapid, while at Manchester United the suffering continues after the departure of Sir Alex Ferguson a little less than a decade ago.

Below, let's discuss this, and try to analyze the reasons for Barcelona's quick comeback and Manchester United's delay for all that time.

Extensive walking powers
At Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson enjoyed so much power that no coach would ever dream of having half of it in any team in the world, let alone the best teams in England and Europe.

Among the Red Devils, Alex Ferguson was the technical director, coach, sports director, psychiatrist and the primary influence on management decisions.

All those jobs suddenly disappeared at Manchester United with Ferguson's departure from the position of coach, which was diffuse to much more.

An insightless solution from management
When Ferguson left Manchester United, he nominated his compatriot David Moyes, who already has a lot of experience in English football.

Ferguson did not leave them with other nominations for names who could do the rest of the tasks he was taking upon himself to do at the club.

Moyes, despite his experience as a coach, lacked many of the qualities that made Ferguson so successful there at Old Trafford.

The current West Ham coach did not know how to choose the names he would work with, and he did not have experience dealing with adults, nor with team management.

All these factors and other reasons made his period at Manchester United a failure in every sense of the word.

But in order not to hurt Moyes, the man did his job as a coach perhaps perfectly, but no one told him or his job is five or six jobs with each other.

In the end, Moyes failed, Mourinho failed, Solskjaer failed, and any other name in Manchester United will fail as long as the void left by Ferguson is not dealt with properly and thoughtfully.

Consequences of Messi's departure
Last summer, Barcelona fans woke up to the worst news they had heard in decades, worse than Liverpool's historic comeback and eight-goal loss to Bayern Munich.

Lionel Messi, the writer of the modern history of Barcelona, ​​has left the club, perhaps without return, not because of the desire of the player or the team, but because of the financial crisis.

Messi's departure came after a series of negative results for the Catalan club, the worst of all, and did not leave an outlet for the team to achieve anything in the current season.

Indeed, the season has begun, and no fan of the Catalan club has seen any hope of achieving any championship, even in the King's Cup or the Super Cup.

The bad results rolled in, and the disasters did not stop, either at the technical or physical level, as injuries rained down on the team.

Broad but limited effect
It is true that the departure of Lionel Messi had a very big impact on the Catalan club financially, economically and on several other levels.

But in the end, this influence had its limits, which is related to Messi's role with the Catalan club, which did not go beyond the green rectangle.

Even if we follow the news that talked about Messi's impact on the dressing room or management, the Argentine star in the end was just a player.

All these news were and still are illogical in many points. If we talk about his choice of stars, he demanded the return of Neymar, and that did not happen, and he wanted a replacement for Luis Suarez, and his request was not fulfilled.

The logical return of Barcelona
After Messi's departure, and when the results worsened dramatically, the management decided that Ronald Koeman had exhausted all the opportunities they gave him.

The man is a legend for the club, this is a fact that will not change, but he does not leave the desired impact on the team, and there are no signs of improvement in the club under his leadership.

Therefore, it was necessary to change, and it was he who brought Xavi Hernandez, loyal to the style and philosophy of Barcelona, ​​​​from Qatar after his trip with Al Sadd.

Xavi's presence resulted in Barcelona, ​​unlike Moyes, Mourinho and other names who led Manchester United for a simple reason.

Barcelona, ​​after Messi's departure, needed to rebuild the team around new elements, something that needed a new coach who had a clear idea and insisted on implementing it.

But in Manchester United, and in the absence of the job of the coach, the athlete, the coach, the psychological qualification and the person influencing the decisions of the management, it was not possible to return in the same way and speed.

For the sake of truth!
Some may see in the past lines a decrease in the right of Xavi Hernandez, who moved Barcelona significantly in the last period for the better.

But on the contrary, Xavi played the biggest role in this improvement, as the man succeeded in changing the mentality of an entire team and giving it an identity that some had thought had been lost and would not bring results anymore.

All in the matter is that Xavi found success factors in sports management next to him with the presence of Matteo Alemani and led by Joan Laporta, and he was able to take advantage of the elements he owned and volunteered to implement his ideas with splendor and unprecedented speed.

bottom line
Manchester United did not succeed because the change needed to be bigger than the coach, and he needed to fit the roles that Alex Ferguson was playing.

All those jobs that Ferguson was doing with Manchester United, no one, no matter their abilities, would be able to carry them out with the same brilliance of a man who held that position for nearly three decades.

Barcelona succeeded because the coach had a clear idea and because the sports administration fulfilled his requests that suited his ideas, and because a large part of the crisis revolved around the departure of only one player, even if he was among the best in history.