Barcelona can't get onto another, a higher level, but I consider the whole Barcelona team not strong enough. Gundogan is not the same in Barcelona. They have creative players, but they lack perseverance. Other teams understand that this Barcelona team has weaknesses. The times are over when their opponents thought that there is no chance to beat them.
Barcelona this season is not as strong as last season, they experienced a decline in their performance which was quite low because there were many weak points in the team that their opponents were able to exploit. Apart from that, congratulations to Real Madrid who won the Spanish Super Cup and also to Vini, he performed extraordinary by scoring a hat trick in today match. Ancelotti will bring many trophies to Real Madrid because he has a squad that is strong enough to win the title.
My hope is that Real Madrid can bring in Mbappe in Summer and that Barcelona will finally get out of their financial distress and can build a great team again. For now the El Clasico isn't the same as it used to be. I watched every single one of those Clasicos when Messi was still playing for Barcelona. Now I am not that excited anymore except in some games when they face each other in Copa del Rey or something. But we have to be true to ourselves and this includes to acknowledge that we will probably not get to see a Ronaldo-Messi like competition again in La Liga. I remember this year when Messi scored 50 goals and I think Ronaldo had 46. How on earth would that happen again? It's spectacular when two strikers get close to 40 goals in the same season and are fighting for all the titles. But two strikers getting close to 50? Probably not in my lifetime again.