Barcelona, awesome strike force, terrible defence and who do they buy? Henry, at eighteen million or something. Then they wonder why they don't win stuff, absolutely moronic. Football is a game of so many parts and a good team has to have them all.
there were 3 signings apart from henry (£16m is fuck all for barcelona anyway, they've recouped that already in swag sales)
yaya toure (defensive midfield) ~£6m
abidal (left fullback) ~ £10m
gabriel milito (central defence) ~ £13m
the summer before was a complete fuckup where they neglected their defence excepting thuram/zambrotta from the juve firesale and forgot about getting a good dm entirely (also signed eidur gudjohnsen their now 7th choice forward on a very lucrative contract and can't get rid of him - see saviola)
this summer they did a lot better and it shows, gabi is a bit slow and cumbersome and was a second choice after chivu's agent fucked up, abidal is awesome and toure looks like he may well be the same, and cost less than a midtable english side would spend on a nothing player like parker or reocoker
the last few games (
without ronaldinho, eto'o, puyol) they have been amazing, a level beyond arsenal now or utd v roma last season, messi is unreal and the defence seems fine