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Barcelona's money crisis forced Lionel Messi out. Will it leave them stuck with Ronald Koeman?

"Today, everyone knows what the problem is," said Ronald Koeman, which was asking for it, really. The "insert your own joke here" thing was just too easy, the response far too obvious. Yes, Ronald: it's you. Barcelona had been beaten again, this time by Benfica in Lisbon, leaving them with a Champions League record that reads: played two, lost two, goals scored none, goals conceded six. They really might not get out of the group.

"A critical situation," Sergio Busquets called it.

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