Josep Maria Bartomeu is considered to be only concerned with balancing the books at Barcelona, with former club director Albert Perrin saying the future at Camp Nou “scares me a lot”.
The reigning La Liga champions have continued to invest heavily in recent transfer windows.
There have, however, been notable departures as well – including the record €222 million (£200m/$249m) deal which took Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain in the summer of 2017.
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A move to bring the Brazilian back to Catalunya has been mooted for a while, but finances are making an agreement difficult.