1995–96 FC Barcelona season

The season is best remembered as the end of Johan Cruyff's era as Head coach after almost eight years. During the summer, the club make the transfers in of Gheorghe Popescu from Tottenham Hotspurs, striker Angel Cuellar from Real Betis, forward Meho Kodro from Real Sociedad, Robert Prosinecki from Real Oviedo and the controversial move of Luis Figo from Sporting Lisboa (a petition of Jorge Valdano to the Real Madrid) after a two years ban of Italian Federation due to a double accord of the Portuguese midfielder with both Parma and Juventus.

Cruyff took Hristo Stoichkov and Ronald Koeman out of the team with controversy for fans and President included. In this campaign, the plan of head coach was mix arrivals and a new generation known as "La Quinta de Lo Pelat" (The Five of Lo Pelat) young players such as Ivan De la Peña nicked as Pelat, Oscar García, Roger García, Toni Velamazan and Albert Celades.

The team reached its climax on 7 October 1995 defeating Real Betis 5-1 in Sevilla with a memorable exhibition of La Quinta de Lo Pelat, the club were struggling in League against leader of table Atletico Madrid meanwhile competing in 1995-96 Copa del Rey where the squad reached the 1996 Copa del Rey Final and 1996 UEFA Cup Semifinals phase.

However, the squad lost in ten days the three trophies, first on 10 April 1996 FC Barcelona was defeated 0-1 by Atletico Madrid in the Copa del Rey Final. Six days later, in Barcelona the squad lost the semifinal 1-2 against Bayern München and was eliminated from the UEFA Cup tournament. The bizarre series of results ended on 20 April 1996 when Atletico Madrid won 3-1 at Camp Nou means that FC Barcelona could not win La Liga for second consecutive year.

The shocking 10 days of losses shattered Johan Cruyff as manager and President Jose Luis Nuñez started contacts with English trainer Bobby Robson during May to replace Cruyff for 1996-97 season. Finally, Nuñez fired Cruyff on 19 May 1996 and signed Robson as the new head coach.

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No. Position Player 1 GK Carles Busquets 2 DF Albert Ferrer 3 DF Abelardo Fernández 4 MF Josep Guardiola 5 MF Gheorghe Popescu 6 MF José Mari Bakero (captain) 7 MF Luís Figo 8 MF Guillermo Amor 9 FW Meho Kodro 10 FW Ángel Cuéllar 11 MF Gheorghe Hagi 12 DF Sergi Barjuán 13 GK Jesús Angoy 14 FW Jordi Cruyff 16 MF Óscar Garcia

No. Position Player 19 DF Lluís Carreras 20 DF Miguel Ángel Nadal 21 MF Robert Prosinečki 22 GK Julen Lopetegui 23 MF Iván de la Peña 24 MF Roger García 25 DF Quique Álvarez 26 MF Albert Celades 27 MF Juan Carlos Moreno 28 MF Toni Velamazán 29 DF Xavi Roca 31 MF Josep Setvalls 32 FW García Pimienta 34 MF Juanjo Carricondo 35 MF Francisco Rufete

Transfers

Name	Nat	From/To	Type
In
Ángel Cuéllar		Real Betis
Meho Kodro		Real Sociedad
Luís Figo		Sporting Lisboa
Gheorghe Popescu		Tottenham Hotspur
Robert Prosinečki		Real Oviedo
Óscar García		Albacete	Loan ended
Lluís Carreras		Racing Santander	Loan ended
Goran Vučević		Hajduk Split	Loan ended
Álex García		Palamós	Loan ended
Out
Ronald Koeman		Feyenoord
Romário		Flamengo
Hristo Stoichkov		Parma
Igor Korneev		Heerenveen
Txiki Begiristain		Deportivo La Coruña
Eusebio		Celta de Vigo
Iván Iglesias		Sporting Gijón
Xabier Eskurza		Valencia
Xavier Escaich		Albacete
José Mari García		Real Betis
Óscar Arpón		Real Betis
Sánchez Jara		Real Betis
Álex García		Cádiz
Goran Vučević		Mérida	Loan

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• 1995–96 UEFA Cup
• 1995–96 La Liga
• 1995–96 Copa del Rey
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