Former Barcelona defender Laurent Blanc has hailed the club’s La Masia academy and highlighted just how important it is to the Catalan giants.
La Masia continues to churn out incredible talent at a quite astonishing rate. Lamine Yamal, Gavi and Alejandro Balde are just some of the academy graduates in the first team right now.
Blanc says that the academy is still the club’s great beating heart and feels Barca could even have disappeared without young stars to rescue them during difficult financial times.
“It has gone through a difficult time, with financial and administrative problems.