Carles Puyol, Gerard Piqué, Jordi Alba, Sergi Roberto and even Neymar celebrated, from a distance, Barça‘s victory in the Clásico. “Brutal”, “congratulations, team”, “Check out Barça”, “what a great game you have scored”. “We are unique, they can never be like uswith all the young people from La Masia. What a recital, what pride” (Piqué).
They experienced many classics with the Barça shirt and all of them felt a special pride in Hansi Flick’s team which is once again exciting the culés, although the road is long.
Ilkay Gündogan also experienced it from Manchesterwho left in the last days of the market. “Now I’m leaving in a difficult situation, but if my departure can help the club financially, that makes me feel a little less sad,” the midfielder said at the time.
Before the Classic, and after City’s narrow victory against Southampton, the German sent a message to the team and all the culés: “Wow! There have been great results and performances recently and I am very happy that my former colleagues are doing an incredible job at the moment. Today, the big, big game. Good luck and Força Barça“.
Barça’s display left him stunned and his reaction to the win was much shorter and clearer: “What a statement at the Bernabéu… wow”. No need to say anything else