Barcelona most expensive player sales - How Catalans earned over €1.4 billion in outgoing transfers

Barcelona signed Yerry Mina from Palmeiras for €12.40 million (£11.16 million) in January 2018, but the centre-back failed to make an impact at the club.

He made just six appearances in all competitions amid tough competition in defence and was eventually offloaded to Everton for a decent profit just seven months into his Barcelona career for €30.25m (£27.23m).

Barcelona dived into the transfer market in the summer of 2017 in order to strengthen their right-back position, leading them to Benfica star Nelson Semedo.

The Catalan giants had to pay a fee of €35.70 million (£32.13 million) in order to sign the Portugal international.

Semedo made 124 appearances for Barcelona in all competitions over his three-year spell at the club, before being sold to Premier League side Wolves in the summer of 2020 for €32 million (£28.80 million).

Cesc Fabregas forced a move to his boyhood club Barcelona from Arsenal back in 2011, with the Catalans paying €34 million (£30.60 million) to bring him back home.

His time at Barcelona was quite successful as he made 151 appearances, scoring 42 goals and providing 50 assists over his five seasons at the club.

With tremendous competition in Barcelona's midfield, Fabregas was eventually sold to Chelsea in the summer of 2014 for €33m (£29.70m).

Barcelona were in need of a back-up goalkeeper in the summer of 2016 when they brought in Jasper Cillessen from Ajax for €13 million (£11.70 million).

During his three seasons at the club, Cillessen largely played the role of understudy to Marc-Andre Ter Stegen, making just 32 appearances, conceding 25 goals and keeping 14 clean sheets.

In the summer of 2019, Barcelona parted ways with the Dutchman for a huge premium for a goalkeeper when Valencia agreed to pay €35m (£31.50m) for his services.

Barcelona were searching for additional options in their attacking department back in 2018 when they brought in Malcom from Bordeaux.

The Catalans paid a fee of €41 million (£36.90 million) for the winger, who featured for just six months before being shipped to Zenit for €40m (£36m) in 2019.

Fair to say the move to Camp Nou didn't work out well for the Brazilian!

Malcom featured in 24 games for Barcelona, scoring four goals, two of which were against Real Madrid and Inter respectively. He provided two assists in his time at the club.

After completely flopping at Tottenham Hotspur previously, it came as a surprise when Barcelona paid a whopping €40 million (£36 million) for Paulinho when they signed him from Evergrande in 2017.

But, Paulinho was surprisingly good in the 49 games he played for Barcelona, scoring nine goals and providing three assists.

However, Barcelona still loaned the Brazilian back to his former Chinese Super League club in the summer of 2018, before permanently selling him to them for €42m (£37.80m) in the January transfer window of 2019.

In 2011, Barcelona made a move for a talented youngster from Udinese called Alexis Sanchez, signing the attacker for €26 million (£23.40 million).

Despite some very good performances, including a winner in El Clasico, Sanchez never quite became an undisputed starter due to the level of competition at the club.

Sanchez still made 141 appearances for Barcelona, scoring 46 goals and providing 37 assists, which is quite an incredible return in terms of goal contributions.

The Chilean left Barcelona when Luis Suarez arrived, joining Arsenal for €42.5m (£38.25m) in 2014.

One of the most controversial transfers in the history of football occurred when Luis Figo committed the ultimate sin, leaving Barcelona to join arch-rivals Real Madrid in 2000.

Figo joined Los Blancos for a then world-record fee of €60 million (£54 million) and he ended up winning one Ballon d'Or, two La Liga titles and a Champions League at the Santiago Bernabeu.

The Portuguese maestro eventually moved to Italian giants Inter as a free agent in the summer of 2005, before retiring from professional football in 2009.

Barcelona and Juventus came up with arguably one of the most remarkable deals in the history of transfers in 2020.

The Catalans let go of highly-rated midfielder Arthur Melo for €76 million (£68.40 million), with Miralem Pjanic arriving at the Camp Nou for €60m (£54m) around the same time.

This deal was pretty controversial and was also subject to investigation over whether it was in fact little more than an accounting trick.

In essence, the only money exchanged between the two teams was €16m (£14.40m).

However, in accounting terms, a club spreads every new player's transfer fee over the length of the contract that they sign for.

Thus, despite having a €16m (£14.40m) difference in the values of Pjanic and Arthur, both clubs earned close to €52m (£44.6m) from this deal in terms of capital gains for that financial year.

The world of football transfers changed forever when Paris Saint-Germain signed Neymar from Barcelona for €222 million (£199.80 million), smashing the world-record fee by a mile in the summer of 2017.

The Brazilian was one of the crown jewels of Barcelona's attack alongside Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez and he seemed destined to become a club legend at Camp Nou, but the lure of a big paycheck at PSG proved to be too much for the former Santos man.

Even though Barcelona did receive an incredible fee, they ended up spending it on players who never really quite lived up to the high expectations such as Philippe Coutinho and Antoine Griezmann.