Coutinho, Griezmann, Umtiti... Barça's 'curse' in sales since Neymar's departure

The exit of Neymar of the FC Barcelona supposed the beginning of a 'curse' for the group blaugrana in what to traspasos refers . From the summer of 2017, the club has lost a lot of million euros in lower sales and rescissions of agreements of footballers that cost a lot and finish devaluating considerably after not surrendering to the level expected in Catalonia.

To the Barça lasted him very little in box the money ingresado by Ney. The 222 million euros that Paris Saint-Germain credited by the Brazilian spent in Ousmane Dembélé (summer) and Philippe Coutinho (winter). Each one cost €135m and, in the case of the of River of Jaineiro, his signing was a total ruin, since the Aston Villa only credited 20 'kilos' by his traspaso in 2022. With 'Dembouz' the situation has improved the last year regarding performance, although the injuries have pursued him constantly.

Lenglet, Umtiti and Dest, a ballast of 80 millions

Also striking are the cases of Samuel Umtiti, Clément Lenglet and Sergiño Dest. Between the three spent almost 80 million euros and is very likely that finish terminating agreement in front of the fault of offers. The first has been 'Big Sam' and, after the doubts of the Tottenham, the following can be Lenglet. With Dest, the panorama neither is alentador, as for the moment there are not formal offers by the American.

Without place in the plans of Xavi Hernández for the 2023/24, the club needs to undo what before both to free contingents in the staff and adjust his mass salarial. With the registrations of Ílkay Gündogan and Iñigo Martínez pending, the directive knows that it can not give long to the resolution of the future of the yielded that return in July. The líos in sales in the last polish add to Francisco Trincao, Jean-Clair Todibo and Miralem Pjanic, other three bets fallidas.

Griezmann, the another capital fiasco

The another big operation fallida of the Barça from 2018 from now on was, definitely, Antoine Griezmann. The Frenchman cost 120 million euros and, after two quite toneless seasons, finish returning to the Athletic of Madrid in 2022 by alone 20 'kilos'. Previously, the 'colchoneros' had credited €10m by his cession. The following in the list can be Ferran Torres (€55m), since the one of Foios does not explain, for now, with offers to yield him.

Less painful in the economic, although equally questionable from the sportive, went the operations by Emerson Royal and Júnior Firpo. The balance by both remained in zero, but hardly saw action with the first team. From the arrival of Mateu Alemany to the directive, the club has attained to close good reinforcements to 'cost zero' (Aubameyang, Marcos Alonso, Christensen, Gündogan) and others less successful, but equally free (Agüero, Depay, Eric García, Kessié). However, it has been very difficult to avoid the millionaire losses inherited by the signings fallidos of the management Bartomeu.