It looks like Lewandowski will remain Barcelona mainstay next season even though he is getting older, his experience is really needed by Barcelona, which currently relies more on young players. He can still be relied on on the front lines even though his goal productivity has dropped drastically this season, Barcelona will not let Lewandowski go before finding a suitable replacement to fill his position.
He managed to score 18 in La Liga this season, this record is not too bad for a player his age. You can't compare when he was still defending Bayern Munich, at that time he was still at the peak of his performance and he was younger than he is now. Barcelona must retain Lewandowski to fill the front line due to the financial limitations they currently have. The only option Barcelona can do to strengthen their squad is by selling other players to bring in other quality players so that their front line becomes sharper.
I can’t really say Lewandoski is not doing well again; the player is still doing well in his matches, but to me, as he’s getting older, it will be better if they find another player who will replace Lewandoski, even if they will still keep him. However, to me, even if Lewandoski is not doing much better, I believe they will leave him because they don’t have money to get new players, as we are thinking. So you can see that they don’t have any other option than to keep Lewandoski playing for them. Though I know he is still trying his best based on his age, we have some players who we are not even hearing from again, and they are the same age as Lewandoski.
However, is it true that by selling some of their players, they will get other good and talented players? To me, how many of their key players do we think they will sell now before they get their squad full of strong and talented players? We know that they are not financially stable like other teams, but it will be good if they find a solution to their problem.
Even though he is quite old, Lewandowski is still very fit to play with Barcelona next season. Even though Lewandowski's goal productivity has decreased this season, I also don't consider this a decline. Because it cannot be denied that the competition in Laliga this season is much more difficult than last season. For example, Girona suddenly appeared in table 3 of the LaLiga standings and several other teams also experienced a very significant increase in performance. Therefore, it is natural that Lewandowski will have more difficulty scoring as many goals as the previous season. The reason is that the La Liga competition this season is indeed fiercer.
Apart from that, for next season, I don't think Barcelona needs to bring in new players. Because actually, currently Barcelona already has players who have quite good abilities and skills. So in essence, Xavi just needs to organize and match the players that Barcelona currently has in order to achieve pretty good results. Because in my opinion the problem Barcelona is currently experiencing is that their players have not found the right position. So with the limited costs that Barcelona is currently experiencing, I think this is a pretty good way to make Barcelona perform better next season.
Because if, for example, Barcelona sells several of its players next season, in my opinion that is also too risky. Because, the risk is that Barcelona will not necessarily get better players than the current players. So in my opinion, utilizing existing players is a way out of the problems Barcelona is currently experiencing.