Barca lately has been making lots of mistakes lately.
It all started in 2017
Barca sells Neymar to PSG for a world record fee of €222million
Barca makes a mistake of replacing Neymar and buy Dembele for a reported fee of €142million.
In 2018 Barca bought Coutinho for a reported fee of €145million adding to a long list of players.
In 2019 Barca bought Griezmann from Atletico Madrid for a reported fee of €120 million.
In the same year (2019) Barca also signed De jong from Ajax for a reported fee of €75 million.
In 2020, Barcelona spent €60 million to sign a 30 year Pjanic from Juventus in exchange of a 24 year old Arthur (madness).
In the same year (2020) Barca bought Braithwaite for €18million to replace an injured Dembele in an emergency transfer window.
From that point things went downhill for Barca, the club went broke. No money to sign new players. They were in a €1billion debt.
In 2020, Bartomeu Barca’s president resigned due to facing a vote of no confidence from club members and also due to corruption cases in Spain. He had misappropriated Barca funds.
Come 2021 barca had a new president, Joan Laporta.
In 2021, Barca wanted to sell Dembele and Umtiti forcefully. Both players refused to leave the club angering the club management. In 2022, Dembele signed a new contract with the clubbut on a 40% salary pay cut. Umtiti is sitting out his contract as he has refused to leave the club.
After not matching his achievements in Spain, Coutinho was loaned out to Bayern Munich who went aheat to win the UCL scoring 2 goals against Barca and eliminating them from the competition. He was later sold out to Aston Villa for a paltry €17million. €145million down the drain for Barca.
Griezmann didnt impress in the camp Nou and so he was loaned out to his former club, Atletico. Currently, the Frenchman doesnt want to go back the Catalonian Club. He has asked Atletico to buy him back.
Currently Barca wants to do away with De jong and sell him to Barca but he wants to be paid all his contract money to leave the club.
Pjanic was loaned out to Turkey club Beskitas on loan. Reports are he is ready to come back and play for Barca.
Currently Barcelona also wants to get rid of Braithwaite by selling him to another club but the player insists he want to be paid all his contract money before agreeing to leave the club.
In 2020 before leaving the club, Bartomeu got rid off one of their star players; Suarez who was then sold to Atletico Madrid.
Perhaps the biggest news was in 2021 when Barcelona was letting go of their most important player, Messi.The player had agreed to take a 50% pay cut but they couldnt still afford so they had to let him go and he joined PSG.
In the same year (2021) Barca acquired new players i.e Aguero, Depay, Gavi, Puig. Barca couldnt reguster new players so they forced their old players to take massive pay cuts so as to register. What I wonder is why a club that doesnt have money is signing new players. In early 2022 Barca signed Aubameyang from Arsenal. Aguero retired from football due to heart problems and his contract was terminated by Barca.
In the transfer window, Barca registered new players such as Raphinha from Leeds, Lewandowski from Munich, Kessie (free transfer) from AC Milan, Christensen and Kounde from Sevilla. Ironically, Barca is spending all these money on new players yet they cant register them and the club was in a financial crisis., it has also forced its players to take a pay cut.
At the moment Barca wants to get rid of Aubameyang, Braithwaite, Umtiti, Depay (his jersey number has already been given to Lewandowski) so as to be abke to sign new players. Puig has already signed for LA Galaxy in the US at 22. Depay doesnt want to get sold he wants to leave for free since he joined the club for free. The club wants to sell him to make money.
Barca is in deep shit.