Anyway, Pirlo was someone else's trash, Bazagli was someone else's trash, Tevez and Pogba both were someone else's trash. So tell me again how we fucked up recycling someone else's trash.
He isnt the reason for their failure, but a factor of it. Put the love triangle of 2 holding mids and an anticipating fullback around messi, and he's locked out of the game. Without Xavi in his prime to move the play around it, barcelona's offence got locked down. If the two wide players are a goalscoring threat however, then there are many options to exploit the gap the centreback occasionally leaves to block messi. Sanchez and Neymare are supposed to be such players. Pedro on the other hand, has blistering pace and a good cross, but that last thing is useless at barcelona. And he lacks goalscoring threat, wich is vital against teams that hardcounter tiki taki