Seven ex-Barcelona stars who scored against them: Villa, Ronaldo…

Even during the glory days under Pep Guardiola, Barca often bought expensive attacking talent only to sell them on when they couldn’t eclipse Lionel Messi.

That doesn’t mean those sold have been failures. Indeed, some of Barca’s most treasured players have demonstrated their class after leaving the Camp Nou.

We’ve identified seven players that have come back to haunt Barcelona by scoring against them.

One of the greatest strikers of all time, the ‘Original’ Ronaldo is well respected by football fans everywhere. Except Barcelona.

After just one season at the club, where he scored 47 league goals in 49 games, the Brazilian moved to Inter Milan, before joining Real Madrid in 2002.

Playing for the old enemy was bad enough, but in December 2003 Real Madrid won at the Camp Nou for the first time in 20 years, with a 2-1 victory.

The scorer of Real Madrid’s second? Ronaldo.

The forward made it 2-0 with 20 minutes to go before Patrick Kluivert pulled one back for the hosts, and he terrorised the Barcelona defence all game.

Real Madrid would go on to lose the title to Valencia that season, but Ronaldo had done enough to humiliate his former employers.

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The controversial Swedish superstar, like Ronaldo before him, only spent one season at the Camp Nou before moving to Inter Milan, but came back to haunt Barcelona on multiple occasions.

Ibrahimovic spoke badly of his time at the club, singling out Pep Guardiola in particular, as someone who he could not work with.

“Guardiola was staring at me and I lost it. I thought ‘there is my enemy, scratching his bald head!’. I yelled to him: ‘You have no balls!’ and probably worse things than that,” Ibrahimovic once stated.

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