Barça, go for it all!

There's no debate. Tonight there's a Champions League final against Inter (only one will be played) and on Sunday, a decisive derby for La Liga will take place at the same time as the afternoon, in Asian time because even if few people watch it in China, there will be many in the global audience. There's no need to hold back players to prioritize any competition. Blaugrana coach Hansi Flick already did it in Valladolid and it paid off, despite promoting the cardiologists' union with the starting lineup. Barça has to go all out in the coming days because there are five finals left to frame a sensational season. Besides, if they win today, there will be a sixth: the Champions League.

The measured, fanatical Barcelona fans have two antagonists: President Laporta, who has displayed a compulsive optimism since the start of the season and has succeeded in spreading that positive energy, and Lamine Yamal, representative of a generation without complexes and without a history of surroundings, capable of declaring after the draw with Inter: "We'll definitely go through." The Jurassic fear of Joan Poquí, the closest thing today to the figure of l'Avi del Barça Joan Casals, who died in February 2024, that this week will go wrong, nests in many Barcelona fans. That's the struggle. Always internal. Argued by many senseless lost battles. In that being happy after, not before.

There are only five finals: there is no debate about whether it will be La Liga or the Champions League, there is no room for speculation.

There's no point in asking whether you prefer to win La Liga or the Champions League. Both. There's no debate. Barça is two games away from lifting the Champions League and four away from the double. It would all be a treble, a quadruple if you add the Super Cup win against Real Madrid, while waiting for the sextuple, which should include two more Super Cups.

Saying all this sounds awful in traditional Barcelona, ​​accustomed to prudence and restraint. But this Barça isn't like that: it's risky, with a defense pushed to the limit, underage players who are undisputed starters, a goalkeeper resurrected after retirement (Tek), a center back and a left winger (Íñigo and Raphinha) who were more out than in in June, the best midfielder in the world who was said to be fragile (Pedri), another ignored player like De Jong, a 36-year-old striker (Lewandowski), and a forward who few saw as having a future yet has excelled with goals (Ferran).

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Barça is where the fans want it to be. In the Champions League semi-finals and top of La Liga with four games remaining. They must go all out, with everything. If they make it out, we'll already know which is the symbol of happiness (the Barça crest); if they win one of the two, we'll have to celebrate in style; and if they don't, at least they will have been the protagonist of the best moments of the year for many people who believe that the real disappointment was Madrid's absence from the Champions League.