Bojan & Muniesa meet SPORT: 'There's no team at Barcelona's level'

Bojan and Marc Muniesa come out of Clayton Wood, Stoke City's training ground, laughing. They get into an Audi Q7 and a few seconds later, Bojan gets out. He grabs a cone from the car park and walks towards a Mercedes. It's Afellay's car. Bojan leaves the cone, curiously, on the roof of the car. He turns away and smiles, returning to the Audi where Muniesa is waiting with a smile from ear to ear. Somethings never change. Above all if you've spent half your life wearing the same shirt. Bojan and Muniesa, from different paths, share the same origin and the same destination: England. 

Bojan: City have a better team than United.

Muniesa: If they'd beaten Liverpool, I'd make them favourites for the Premier League. 

Journalist: How's Jurgen Klopp doing in England with Liverpool?

B: Good, he's added a lot of intensity.

M: They press a lot. It's what they needed. He's also changed some of the players. 

J: Can you see City winning the Champions League?

M: The Champions League... it's a difficult competition, with Barça, Bayern... these teams... I went to see Barça play Arsenal at the Emirates and it was closer than the result suggests. 

J: Yeh? 

M: Barça, with Luis Enrique, don't need the ball so much. They have three bullets up front and they don't need to keep the ball. And when they go on the counter-attack...

J: But they still have the ball.

M: Yes, they always have it, but against Arsenal it was more even. If Oxlade-Chamberlain had scored his chance...

J: Do you think Arsenal can comeback?

M; No, impossible. Impossible. 

J. But this is football.

M: Since they lost the first leg at the Emirates, they have only won in the FA Cup against Hull City. 

B: Barça have one huge positive, something which is difficult to achieve. It's that they only depend on themselves. Barça depend on themselves against any team and in any competition. 

J: So they don't need to study their rival? 

B: Noooo! Not that. I'm sure they will study them. I'm not saying this means their games are easy. Arsenal play really well and have a good team, but I don't think there is any team at Barça's level. 

J: You've both played at Barça. Is there a big difference between this Barça and the one you left? 

B: What I don't understand is why people want to compare. I don't like these type of comparisons. I don't like them because they're both teams and players which have achieved a lot of positive things for Barça. So I don't understand the need to compare. Yes, it's true that the current team is the present and the previous team was the first, which came from having not won much in the previous years. 

J: Frank Rijkaard gave you a chance, do you think he's underrated in the club's history? He won the second Champions League, 14 years after the first!

M: Yes, Rijkaard, with Ronaldinho, Eto'o, Deco, Giuly... all these guys. There were more foreign players, too. 

B: It's normal [he may be underrated] because what happened next is something... a treble, then six trophies... now another treble last year. So much success in such little time.

J: Four Champions Leagues in 10 years.

B: Yes, this Barça is already a great in all senses, also in terms of titles. 

J: You see them winning the Champions League?

B: For me they're a candidate for everything. 

J: The treble?

B: Yes, yes.

M: Here in England there's no team even close to them. None. I don't even think Madrid. If Madrid are with all their players...

B: And Bayern Munich. In terms of attacking, yes, but defending...

M: I like Paris Saint-Germain. Let's see...

J: And Chelsea?

B: Against Barcelona you could win a one-off game, but a two-legged tie, I don't see it. The problem for their rivals is they always score away from home. And conceding at home penalises you a lot. Look at the other day (against Arsenal), in one moment they scored two goals. Look at last season against Bayern Munich, it was even in the first leg and then they scored three goals.

M: And they won 2-3 in Germany. 

J: No, they lost, 3-1 I think. 

M: They won 2-3. 

Photographer: Google will know.

M: Bayern started well and scored, but I think Barça won 2-3 or 1-3. 

J: Yes, they did make a small comeback at the start. 

B: What's clear is that Barça won the tie in the first leg. In one moment they killed it. 

J: Why is that? Talent? Fitness? 

Photographer: It's talent. Because physcially the three up top play everything. They never change them. 

B: And they are a team who, for the majority of games, have the ball. I don't mean that's not tiring, but it's not the same as not having the ball. 

M: And then when you get the ball [off them] you're dead!

J: You've suffered like that? 

M: With Stoke, yes. You go to play at Man City and you play a bit deeper, defend more. Then when you get the ball... you have to get out quickly and you notice you're more tired. 

B: When I was at Ajax, we played at Camp Nou. We did well in the first half, drawing 0-0, playing really well, and in the end we lost 4-0. The game was like that the whole time, defending. 

J: That's what awaits Arsenal at Camp Nou, even with the 0-2.

M: It's going to be very difficult. 

B: It's that even though they won 2-0, Barça never speculate in games. And that, for the opposition, is really tough. 

M: They don't give you a chance and they're in a really sweet moment. 

J: They'll win the Champions League again?

B: They have everything they need to do it.