Barcelona are responding to the declining influence of home-grown players in their team by doubling the club’s financial commitment to its youth system from €1.25million (£1.1m) euros a year to €2.95m (£2.6m).

The major injection of money will also see a rebranding of the famed ‘La Masia’ academy which helped produce seven of the 11 players Barca won the 2009 and 2011 European Cup finals with as well as the manager Pep Guardiola.

When they won the trophy in 2015 the number of home-grown players had dropped to five but director Alberto Soler says the new project makes it clear the club wants in-house development of players and coaches to still be the thing that sets it apart from rivals.

Barcelona has produced (from left) Sergio Busquets, Lionel Messi, Xavi and Andres Iniesta

While the likes of Messi are still leading the team, the number of youth products is declining

The academy also produced Pep Guardiola, who won trophies as a player and manager

‘This is not something you would see at Chelsea, Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain or Real Madrid,’ said Soler, who will officially launch ‘Masia 360’ on Wednesday at the Nou Camp.

La Masia has been hugely successful throughout its 30 year-plus history but has relied hugely on the dedication of volunteer coaches and scouts.

The expanded budget will help increase the levels of professional staff on hand to assist the young players as soon as they take their first steps at the club.

Seven of Barca's starting XI in the 2009 Champions League final were youth team products

But by the 2015 final against Juventus in Berlin , that number had slipped to just five

Sixteen extra tutors are being taken on to help with the education of the players as well as two psychologists and five teaching assistants who will travel with youth teams whenever they travel away for more than two days at a time.

The Masia 360 project will also see improvements in the taxi services that ferry young players to and from the club’s facilities and the chefs that cook for the team.

It will benefit all age levels of Barcelona’s 607 sportsmen and women across all sports, said Soler. The club also has teams in handball, roller-hockey, Basketball and Futbol Sala.

The club's famous La Masia academy is now set to be rebranded as Masia 360

As well as a rebranding of an existing idea the Masia 360 is an answer to FIFA who banned Barcelona from making transfers for a year after it found them guilty of breaking the rules on the signings of Under 16s and Under 18s.

‘We are in full agreement when it comes to protecting young players,’ said Soler.

'But the contradiction is, as we have explained to FIFA, that their bans end up affecting the young players themselves [because they are then stopped from competing].