In the last few seasons there have been several players like the old guard or De Jong who have returned to their home country of PSV.
Some young players have also left for the same status when if they wanted to make a profit they could have put them on the sell list.
But buying is not a viable option at the moment, because with their current finances spending a lot of money will be a bigger problem in the future.
^ Yes, that is definitely true. Even though Barcelona is not in a very good financial situation right now, the decisions that have been taken by the coach have not been the best. First of all, I did not think that bringing in old players for so much money was actually worth it. But now I think the only way they can actually justify that is by selling him to the Saudi league for a lot of money.
But still, they had to let a few important players go as free agents. I thought they could get a good amount of money for those players. But maybe Barcelona actually did not have enough money to renew the contract because we saw them not being able to register some players because of financial problems.
We know at least in the last few seasons there have been some expensive purchases but they have been flops in the end such as Coutinho, Griezmann and Dembele.
They came at a very high price but were released at a price that was even far from what they paid before.
This may happen for some big clubs but in this case Barcelona are too much because they can't blend the new players with their style.
Xavi had to fix that and the purchases of Raphinha and Ferran were too big but still have no effect.