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Zlatan ibrahimovic joined Barcelona from Inter Milan in the summer of 2009 for a fee which was valued at almost €70 million. The actual fee was €46 million, but Samuel Eto'o was also a makeweight in the deal with various other options too. Eto'o had been the striker who helped Barcelona to the Champions League title in May 2009, and he had the last laugh when he won it with Inter the next season.

Ibrahimovic is not the easiest player to get along with, and his face never really fitted in at Barcelona. He is more of an individual player than most of the other Barcelona players, and their success has been built on teamwork and fantastic football. Barcelona won the Spanish league title but they failed to retain their Champions League one, and Ibrahimovic was loaned to AC Milan at the end of the season.

He went on to win the Italian title with Milan in 2011, and he has since made his transfer to them permanent. The fee was rumoured to be in the region of €24 million which means Barcelona made a loss of €45 million in just one season when the other factors were taken into account. It's a phenomenal amount of money to lose for just one season's return, and it certainly didn't help the financial position at Barcelona.