Former Barcelona captain Carles Puyol is "furious" after Real Madrid won the Champions League for a record 13th time and says the Catalans must change priorities next season. Madrid beat Liverpool 3-1 in Kiev to win the trophy for the third season running, taking the focus away from Barcelona's La Liga and King's Cup double. Winning the treble is extremely hard as statistics shows, so I think the most sensible thing would be to relegate the King's Cup. Barcelona have won the King's Cup four seasons running but only progressed beyond the Champions League quarter-finals once in that time, when they won it in 2015. "We have a great team and we have Leo (Messi), I think the Champions League has a much bigger global impact and also (impacts) on the Ballon d'Or.

Source: dna May 28, 2018 11:12 UTC