The Blaugrana have had a massive decline in recent years.

One of the greatest football clubs in history, FC Barcelona are now on the verge of financial disaster amid crisis, that needs through analysing.

An institution which took pride in developing the best footballing talent in the world can now be likened to a transformer with ammunition, but no wheels. There’s no hiding FC Barcelona’s economic troubles. Their issues have amplified to such an extent, that they had to sell parts of their great club to activate financial “levers”.

These levers helped them complete their transfers this summer and register them in accordance with La Liga. Despite that, they are desperate to let go of top talent in order to trim an already bloating squad.  The current scenario just goes to show a trailer of the scary future that awaits this once great club.

A club built on the ideation of the famous tiki-taka style of football, that same FC Barcelona is now a club reportedly £1.1 billion in debt! How did this happen?

We take you through FC Barcelona’s financial disaster analysis by laying out a timeline of everything that led to what the club is today:

2017-18 – Building a dream squad

Barcelona began their so-called “revolution” back in 2017. They splashed an outrageous amount of money on transfer fees for new players, as well as huge contracts for existing ones. They brought in Ousmane Dembele and Philippe Coutinho from Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool respectively. This happened in the same window after selling Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain for £199.8 million