Barcelona won consecutive La Liga titles, beating Real Madrid earlier in the month with three games remaining. Sporting director Deco credits a new generation of La Masia graduates, including Lamine Yamal, Pau Cubarsi, and Fermin Lopez, as central to the team’s direction. Deco frames the achievement as the beginning of the club’s history in a new era because the players are young and still want to win important trophies. Deco also says the squad is built so Barcelona does not need to buy four or five players in the transfer market. The team delivered an 11-game winning run to secure the league title, despite exiting the Champions League in the quarter-finals. Marcus Rashford, on loan from Manchester United, scored a decisive free-kick in El Clasico, and Deco believes he deserves the title while avoiding a definitive view on his future.
"“It is true that we won two La Ligas but these players want to win more, they believe that they can win more,” Deco told BBC Sport. “That's why it's important because if the players believe they can acheive more important things, you see they still want to do something important. I believe that this team for me is the beginning of the era, the beginning of the history of this team because they are so young and still want to win something important.”"
"“In the process of guiding Barcelona to their second successive title, Hansi Flick has built a team which means they will not have to ‘go to the market for four to five players’, said Deco. They went on an 11-game winning run to coast to the title, although they exited the Champions League in the quarter-finals.”"
"“Deco would not be drawn on Rashford's future but believes he ‘deserves’ the La Liga title. Although Rashford has not been a guaranteed starter, he scored a crucial goal with a fantastic free-kick to break the deadlock in El Clasico against Real Madrid. Deco said: ‘We knew he had these kinds of skills, I saw him scoring at United man’”"
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