The £320million losses Barcelona have made on 15 sales since 2017

While Barcelona have been criticised for their poor recruitment in recent years, they’ve also struggled to make a profit on their players. 

Admittedly, Neymar’s move to PSG is one glaring exception – but a lot of their signings decreased in value during their time at Camp Nou. 

We’ve looked at the 15 players Barcelona have sold at a loss in the last five years. Note: we’ve only included players that made a loss of at least £1million. 

While most clubs worry about resale value, Barcelona were happy to spend £18million on a 31-year-old Mathieu in 2014.

He struggled to usurp Javier Mascherano as Gerard Pique’s favoured partner in the centre of defence, making just 62 La Liga appearances for the club. 

After three years at Barcelona, the former France international left on a free transfer to Sporting. 

Mascherano joined Barcelona from Liverpool in 2010 and made 334 appearances during his seven and a half trophy-laden years at Camp Nou, winning five La Liga titles, two Champions Leagues and five Copas del Rey.

He was sold to Chinese side Hebei China Fortune for £4.95million in January 2018, but in this case Barcelona definitely got their money’s worth.

READ: An ode to Mascherano – so devoted he tore his ars*hole for Argentina

After signing Dani Alves, Seydou Keita and Ivan Rakitic from Sevilla, Barcelona returned to the club in 2015 and bought Vidal for £15.3million.

But the right-back spent the first half of the 2015-16 campaign on the sidelines as the Blaugrana served a transfer registration ban.

He then made just 30 La Liga appearances for Barcelona and was sold back to his former club at a £6.93million loss in the summer of 2018.

Gomes starred for Valencia and helped Portugal win Euro 2016 before joining Barcelona in a