Barcelona: The Airbnb-ification of a once-unique style
New York TimesBarcelona — the city, like the club — is a victim of its own success. Over the next decade, Barcelona’s principles became the new orthodoxy at the top of the game: instead of aspiring to play like Ferguson’s Manchester United, good teams built from the back, recycled play, passed short, pressed hard, tilted the field, crossed less and took more valuable shots. “Before he came we didn’t have a cathedral of football, this beautiful church, at Barcelona,” he told the Guardian in his first year in Manchester. “FC Barcelona’s famous tiki-taka does not consist of uncountable random passes,” the researchers wrote, “but rather has a precise, finely constructed structure.” In recent years, their passing motifs haven’t been as distinctive. That was how we got last summer’s infamous “economic levers”, Laporta’s euphemism for Barcelona selling off decades of revenue streams to fit new players under La Liga’s salary cap rules.
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