It's simply about paying respect where it is due. But yet even to this day people still make a stink about Barcelona winning the Champions League despite looking like the best team in the tournament and getting the job done. So if you put those two things together and the fact that Barca are indeed blessed with players such as Ronaldinho and Messi and Xavi... yes it seems like jealousy. Especially when voices continue to demean their accomplishment.
But, in actuality, about the same number of passes are threatening for the Azzurri, so what's the point? That is also a superfluous generalization as well. Barcelona has loads of posession and keep the ball away from opposition, which besides scoring is the main idea of the game.
Football is not supposed to be stricken with plans... if you want everything to be planned you should give your offensive coordinator a call and have him tell Edmilson to hike the ball back to Xavi and have Etoo run a screen play on a field with yard markers, not Camp Nou. Football is not always planned, that's why it is so beautiful. So this is why it's so outlandish to have people moan about Barcelona supposedly not having a "gameplan."
This is like blasting Milan for seeing that most of their passes come from Pirlo and Kaka. Who cares?
Well that's great and all, but Trezeguet scored over 20 goals for us in multiple seasons when everybody else was stuck on single digits.
I don't like how Juventus plays because the saves almost always come from Buffon.
Perhaps, but you might find it troubling tapping the ball forward to Messi forty times.
Barcelona uses the flank many a times, so I'm not sure what that's about. Belletti on the right would always see the ball and Van Bronkhorst and Ronnie always have the ball on the left flank.
That's more of personal taste, and since you find the EPL rather entertaining of course you'll like fast-paced play. However, that does not make them a better team than anybody for that matter... just because they have the ability to play fast. Barcelona throws several players forward, has copius amounts of posession, are usually rather entertaining and got the job done when it mattered last season. That specific combination is how they won games and that's why they deserved the trophy.