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#3 His inability to get the best out of marquee signings
Barcelona have a history of being frugal in the transfer market and relying on promotion and integration of youth team players into the senior squad instead.
However, the increased competitive nature of the transfer market has led to the club abandoning this model and changing its spending habits in the last few years.
Barcelona have spent over a billion pounds in players signing in the last five years and a large chunk of that was spent during the tenure of Ernesto Valverde.
The former Olympiakos manager lost the services of the hugely talented Neymar just few days into the start of his tenure and in the Brazilian's stead, the club turned to the highly-rated youngster Ousmane Dembele, signing him for a club record €110 million from Borrussia Dortmund.
The French international saw his debut season hampered by injuries and just few months after his arrival, Barcelona once more smashed their transfer record, paying Liverpool the sum of €142 million to sign Philippe Coutinho in January 2018.
However, none of the two men were able to fully integrate themselves in the Barcelona first-team and Coutinho was loaned out to Bayern Munich after just 18 months in Catalunya, while Dembele continues to battle injury problems and accusations of his unprofessionalism.
Antoine Griezmann became the latest big-money signing to arrive Camp Nou when he signed for Barcelona over the summer; but the World Cup winner has blown hot and cold and is yet to hit the strides that made him one of the best players in the world at Atletico Madrid.
Almost €400 million was spent on signing just three players; this is a huge sum (even by the standards of today's highly inflated market) and the fact that none of the three players truly flourished under Valverde's tutelage was a major indictment on his tenure at the club.
