After Barcelona's heavy defeat at the Bernabeu, Barcelona finally had a decision the next day after more than five hours of meetings.

At the press conference, journalists from European football gathered here, and Barcelona President Joan Laporta made a personal appearance.

President Joan Laporta has announced that manager Rijkaard will leave at the end of the season and will be replaced by legendary Pep Guardiola.

The resignation of the black swan and the arrival of Pep Guardiola are not news, and the Spanish media reported the news early.

It is unforgivable for Barcelona to fail to win the title for two years, and Laporta also looked a little helpless at today's official press conference; "Yes, I am officially announcing today that Rijkaard will no longer be the head coach of the team at the end of the season and will be replaced by Pep Guardiola."

'He worked hard and was successful, but unfortunately we haven't won a trophy for two years. Hearing this, the chairman felt uncomfortable.

The 37-year-old is no stranger to Barcelona fans, having spent 17 years at Camp Nou as a player, winning six league trophies and one trophy with the team.

Although Guardiola does not have more coaching experience than his previously rumored successor Jose Mourinho, he is undoubtedly more suitable for Barcelona than Mourinho.

'He has a very deep understanding of football and a lot of knowledge, and his confidence and ambition can help him succeed here.' President Joan Laporta has given Pep Guardiola full confidence.

The most important thing for Barcelona at the moment is to confirm their qualification for the Champions League in the remaining games, with the team sitting third behind Villarreal. When it comes to the squad for the new season, Laporta only said: "I plan to have the best squad in the world. ”

The media spotlight is beginning to turn to Pep Guardiola, after all, a coach with arguably no experience in the top arena is suddenly at the helm of a top European giant, which is sure to attract huge attention.

Pep Guardiola, who has only coached more than 30 League D games, has been chosen as Barcelona's new manager. This shows the Barcelona club's usual courage to trust newcomers.

But, in addition to his joy, Guardiola will feel more of a responsibility, a huge responsibility to bring Barcelona's century-old giants out of crisis.

There are many, many tasks ahead of Pep Guardiola, and the first step is to build a fighting team.

It is reported. Pep Guardiola first discussed the formation of a new squad with Barcelona's technical director Bekiristan and the club's academy head Jose, as well as a framework for building a new squad.

However, for Guardiola, what was once a difficult but hopeful outlook for the future has now met a real obstacle.

One of the most difficult is the club's economy, which is not in good shape right now: Pep Guardiola's purge plan has a real clash with the club's bank account.

A Barcelona insider broke a lot of information to the media, most of which was about Pep Guardiola's purge list. The largest purge list includes 13 players.

Pep Guardiola wants to give Barcelona a new look by cleaning the rotten parts and introducing new strength, but 13 players is too much to realistic. Pinto, Marcos, Zambrotta. Thuram, Deco. Ezcro, Silvinho, Edmilson, Ronaldinho, Holkela, Gudjohnsen. Samuel Eto'o, Oleg, these 13 players have exceeded half of Barcelona's squad, and if they are all cleaned, not only will the team be damaged. How to fill the vacancies is also a big question.

What's more difficult is that due to Laporta's push for the "2010 Project" in the previous two years, most of the club's players have contracts that will not expire until 2010, and among the 13 players, only Edmilson, Silvinho, Thuram, Ezcro and Pinto are five whose contracts expire at the end of this season.

If a player is unwilling to leave, the club will have to sack them at the cost of having to pay the player's full salary for the remainder of his contract, which would be a huge expense.

Therefore, the list of 13 players will inevitably be narrowed, and Barcelona can finally clean 7 or 8 players, which can be said to be very good.

Although the club has added players such as Sevilla's Alves and Paulsen, Porto's Bruno Alves, Lyon's Karim Benzema and Bayern Munich's Lahm to the list of signings, Barcelona have not made much progress in their current recruitment campaign, mainly due to the lack of cash in the club's safe.

It's like a person who has no money in his bag, even if he likes something very much, he has no motivation to go up and bargain with the merchant, because everything is in vain.

It is reported that FC Barcelona will even have a Norman Foster-designed Camp Nou renovation plan on hold due to lack of money.

There is only one way for FC Barcelona to raise transfer funds, and that is to sell players, but only a few of these saleable players can generate significant income for Barcelona. Barcelona are now hoping to get a high transfer fee for players such as Ronaldinho and Samuel Eto'o, but the problem is that there are not many clubs seeking these superstars, and the price offered by the opposing club is not very ideal.

Ronaldo was Milan who froze transfer talks, and now it seems that the best hope has to be pinned on Samuel Eto'o. Inter Milan and Tottenham are now pursuing Samuel Eto'o, with Inter even willing to bid €40 million for Samuel Eto'o, and although the Italian media may not be credible, it is a fact that Eto'o is not cheap, according to Sport.

In any case, it is basically impossible for Barcelona to spend heavily in the transfer market this summer, and the club will take a pragmatic approach to bring in the players who need it most. Pep Guardiola will also narrow down his purge list, for example, according to media reports, Guardiola is very bullish on substitute Ezcro, who values his professionalism despite his very little playing time.

Real Madrid's rebuilding experience in the post-Florentino era will serve as a model for Barcelona to follow. After Calderón took charge of Real Madrid, the team did not have a large-scale transformation of the muscles, but did two important jobs, one is to drive out the leadership players who lack professionalism in the team, such as resolutely cleaning Ronaldo, and the other is to restore the team's fighting spirit, the players train harder, the game is more serious, the locker room is more united, the new and old players are treated in unison, and the big-name players and ordinary players are treated equally.

Pep Guardiola is also likely to selectively purge a few players who have had a significant negative impact on the dressing room, keeping the main framework of the squad and patching up the weak points, but most importantly, restoring the morale of the squad and the fighting spirit of the club.

Barcelona's quest to move from dark times to light looks like a long way off.

Perhaps it is only because Guardiola is a rookie in the eyes of the outside world that he finds the problems quite a lot and difficult.

No one expected the rookie to be able to reinvent Barcelona into the standout of a dream team in a matter of months! (To be continued.) )