Samuel Eto’o is pleased to see Lionel Messi, a man he considers to be “like my son”, staying at Barcelona but admits the Camp Nou giants are going to need much more than the mercurial Argentine in order to become competitive once again.
The 2019-20 campaign descended into chaos for the Blaugrana on the back of the summer restart.
Having sat out three months during a coronavirus-enforced lockdown, Quique Setien’s side lost their spark – surrendering the Liga title to arch-rivals Real Madrid and being humiliated 8-2 by Bayern Munich in the Champions League.