The 5 players Barcelona signed along with Ronaldinho & how they fared

After finishing sixth in La Liga in 2002-03, Barcelona responded by signing Ronaldinho from PSG in a €30million deal.

The former Brazil international helped transform Barcelona’s fortunes and developed into the best player in the world, winning the Ballon d’Or in 2005.

But he wasn’t the only arrival at the Camp Nou that summer, and we’ve taken a closer look at the other five players that Barcelona signed ahead of the 2003-04 season.

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Once regarded as a greater talent than Cristiano Ronaldo, Quaresma starred for Sporting Lisbon before joining Barcelona amid plenty of hype.

The enigmatic winger failed to live up to expectations at the Camp Nou, scoring just one goal in 28 appearances in all competitions in 2003-04.

After a spectacular falling out with Frank Rijkaard, he refused to play under the manager and returned to Portugal with Porto in a deal that saw Deco move in the opposite direction.

“He [Rijkaard] wanted me to play a certain way, and I tried to do it,” Quaresma told O Jogo in 2004. “I changed my playing style to please him, but it always ended up in the same result. Either I was on the bench or ruled out of the side altogether.

“I then decided to try and play my style of football and that’s when we started to have disagreements.

“In the beginning, I did play and things were going well, then suddenly, the worse time of my life arrived and the trainer did not give me an explanation. From today, I do not want to explain about what happened to me in Barcelona.”

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— FC