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.
"I am convinced that we have a better team than Madrid, but they have won four of the last five Champions Leagues," Puyol told Barcelona based newspaper La Vanguardia.
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"I think the solution comes from getting our priorities straight. We're losing an opportunity and I'm furious about that as a Barca fan.
"Winning the treble is extremely hard as statistics shows, so I think the most sensible thing would be to relegate the King's Cup.
"Don't get me wrong, I loved playing in the final, but the path there should be for the reserves and the young players to show if they are good enough or not."
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.
"I have no doubt who is the best player in the world but Messi should be showing his talent above all in La Liga and in Europe, I'm sure he'd agree with me."
Messi and Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo have each won the Ballon d'Or five times, but the Portuguese forward has won three of the last four, coinciding with his team's Champions League wins in 2014, 2016 and 2017.
Meanwhile, Messi would like to play for Newell's Old Boys in Argentina before he retires, having only played for Barcelona in his career so far.
The 30-year-old would one day like to feature for the team he trained with as a boy in his native Rosario before moving to Barcelona at 13, where he has a contract until 2021.
"I'm increasingly sure that in Europe, Barcelona will be my only club," Messi told Argentine television station El Trece.
"I always said I wanted to play in Argentine football one day, I don't know if it will happen but I have it in my mind.
"It would be at Newell's, nowhere else. I would like to do that for at least six months, but you never know what will happen."
