Barcelona's 10 most expensive signings

#6 Zlatan Ibrahimovic - €69.5m

Zlatan Ibrahimovic enjoyed success at Barca - but left under a black cloud

One of the greatest strikers of his generation, Zlatan Ibrahimovic made his way to Barcelona from Inter Milan in the summer of 2009 for a fee of €69.5m – with Samuel Eto’o heading the other way. 2008/09 had seen Ibrahimovic lead Inter to the Scudetto with a haul of 25 goals, and he’d been named both Footballer of the Year and Foreign Footballer of the Year in Serie A for his exploits.

The big Swede was meant to be the final jewel in Pep Guardiola’s crown at the Nou Camp, but the move didn’t work out quite as well as it’d been planned. Sure, he had some incredible high points – his famous winner against Real Madrid in El Clasico, his 5 goals in his first 5 league matches, setting a new record – and he won La Liga in his debut season, but his time at the Nou Camp also ended on a sour note.

Ibrahimovic infamously fell out with Guardiola following Barcelona’s Champions League semi-final exit at the hands of his old club, Inter Milan, and while his 21 goals in 45 games was a relatively impressive total, he never truly fit in at the Nou Camp and was loaned to AC Milan in the summer of 2010, and eventually sold there at the end of 2010/11.

Due to his success while he was at the club it’s hard to call Ibrahimovic a flop, but he certainly didn’t live up to his huge price tag either.