After a rather successful 2024-2025 season, FC Barcelona was expected to turn the corner this season. Hansi Flick’s team, which showed very good things last year, hoped to win La Liga once again and go all the way in the Champions League, ten years after their last coronation. To achieve this objective, the German technician was able to count on the arrival of some reinforcements, notably Marcus Rashford, Roony Bardghji and Joan Garcia. But everything is not going as planned this season, on the contrary.
After 10 days and a lost Clasico, Barça already finds itself 5 points behind rival and La Liga leader: Real Madrid. Above all, the Barcelona squad, like the regularly injured Lamine Yamal, is decimated by injuries. In three months of competition, already 13 players on the squad have suffered an injury, and currently Hansi Flick is without Raphinha, Robert Lewandowski and even Dani Olmo. A situation which illustrates the physical suffering of this team this season. This Saturday, the RAC1 reports that the data reveals a clear decline in physical performance compared to last season. And this drop in form logically has an impact on the athlete, especially with an energy-intensive style of play like that of Hansi Flick.
The players are gnashing their teeth
This situation is also starting to seriously annoy internally, particularly among the players. The reason? The latter complain about the very little time given to muscle strengthening and indoor exercises. Several players have decided to no longer train at the training center after the sessions and prefer to return home to continue with their own private physical trainer in order to have more detailed monitoring and better support.
The Catalan media explains that the players have already expressed their dissatisfaction at the club, explaining that they did not understand the management of physical preparation. Internally, the club has decided to defuse the controversy, explaining that the staff, led by physical trainer Julio Tous, is confident of being able to remedy the situation in the near future. The club explained that it had identified the shortcomings and concerns reported by the players and should therefore correct them soon. But for now, players are grinding their teeth. And with the series of matches arriving on top of the break, they will have to hold on…
