La Liga 2024/25
They play the most beautiful football, they play the most modern football.
And although (at the moment) they are not the most complete team in Europe – as Inter showed us in the two-leg semi-final of the Champions League – what they have prepared for us in recent months is a specific football passion worthy of the greatest teams in the history of this game.
That is why, in every sense, they deserved to return to the state throne after a year’s break.
Barcelona is the champion of Spain!
Rarely more deserved, never more beautifully played in the post-Messi era. After harassing their ‘blood enemy’ Real Madrid, to the point of taking honor, beating them four times this season, scoring 16 goals and winning two trophies in head-to-head matches (the Spanish Super Cup and the King’s Cup).
The match against their city rival, Espanyol was a kind of gilding on their 28th crown.
A ceremonial salute directed by Lamin Yamal and Fermin López, whose missiles announced a night of celebration and a festive weekend in Catalonia.
If Xavi’s title two years ago was a miracle, considering that it came at the height of the biggest financial crisis since the club was founded, Flick’s can at least be on the same level as it.
Because economic issues have only lost priority in the media, the essential problems have remained – as evidenced by the problems with the registration of the only paid reinforcement, Dani Olmo – and despite all this, Real Madrid entered the season royally, with boiling self-confidence, as the champion of Europe, hiring the best football player of today, Kylian Mbappe, according to many experts.
In such an environment, Hansi Flick managed to develop a championship plan to win the double crown and lay the foundation for a new football empire.
Lamine Yamal continued to develop properly, becoming the most important player. Pedri raised his level of play, Ferran Lopez did too, and Dani Olmo fitted in as if he had never left.
What he did with Jules Kounde – undoubtedly the best right-back in the world at the moment – is a special story. The kids from the academy, like Fermin, Casado, or the younger Kubarsi, are yet to become real assets.
And let’s not forget 17-year-old Marco Bernal, who started as a standard central midfielder before suffering a serious injury.
Celta played in the Europa League semi-finals with Manchester United in 2017, and hardly anyone could have guessed at the time that this match would be the team from Vigo’s last appearance on the international stage until the upcoming 2025/2026 season.
With the arrival of Claudio Giraldez on the bench, the post was finally broken. The young local coach was transferred from the B team in March last year to try to extinguish the fire after an expensive and unsuccessful project with Rafa Benitez.
He was brought in as a temporary solution until the end of the season, but he managed to keep the team in the Primera and earn even greater trust.
He quickly justified it, as Celta has been playing very beautiful football this season, and most importantly, fruitfully.
With a 2-1 away win over Getafe, Giraldez and his players have retained seventh place and secured participation in the group stage of the Europa League next season.
Villarreal could be a pleasant surprise in the elite ranks of European football in the fall.
We can’t wait to see them in the Champions League. If nothing else, it will be interesting. We can’t say they will win, but Villarreal will score goals, which we all want to see. The Yellow Submarine ended the Spanish championship in grand style and indicated that from the fall they will represent a mine to many in the elite competition.
Marcelino García Toral’s team is a spectacle for both the eyes and the soul. His players love the ball; they whisper to it, and the demolition of desperate Sevilla confirmed this. Where we occasionally watched the Andalusians, we will see the Yellow Submarine – 4:2 (3:1) in a few months.
Real Madrid fans have bid farewell to Carlo Ancelotti and Luka Modric with dignity, but they do not want to watch a season without trophies.
The overall impression of the past competition year is not good; however, if we break it down into individual performances, Madrid has reasons to be happy. Raul Asensio has established himself as an important first-team player, Endrik and Arda Guler have confirmed their potential and shown that they can be a bright future for the club, led by Kylian Mbappe.
The Frenchman won the Golden Boot of European football in his debut season at Real Madrid, only the second from his homeland to do so, along with Thierry Henry, a two-time winner of the prestigious award (2004 and 2005).
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