Opinion: 6 big-money signings who flopped at Barcelona 

Coutinho was signed for a club-record fee
Coutinho was signed for a club-record fee

#5 Andre Gomes - €35m from Valencia (2016)

Real Betis v Barcelona - La Liga
Real Betis v Barcelona - La Liga

After impressing for Valencia and helping his country Portugal to lift Euro 2016, Andre Gomes completed a mega move to Barcelona in the summer of 2016.

This was a year on from the iconic Xavi's departure, and it was expected that Gomes would help soften the hole left by Xavi in the middle, but this proved to not be the case.

Andre Gomes struggled massively at Barcelona and looked nothing like the player he was at the Mestalla, with fans of Marca voting him as the worst signing of the season.

Things got progressively worse for him, and he found himself on the receiving end of boos by the Barcelona faithful, with the Portuguese international revealing that the criticism leveled at him led to psychological and emotional trauma.

A loan spell to Everton was undergone in 2018 and having impressed significantly at Goodison Park, the Merseysiders took up their option of making his move permanent in the summer o 2019.

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