The summer of 2014 was a big one at Barcelona. It was the first of Josep Maria Bartomeu’s ill-fated presidency, and the club was still reeling from being pipped to the La Liga title by Atletico Madrid.
The response was to spend over €160million in the transfer market, with almost half of that outlay on a club-record signing, Luis Suarez. The Uruguayan had just produced one of the great individual Premier League seasons at Liverpool, but was banned by FIFA from any football-related activity for four months after biting Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup.
Luis Enrique was newly-appointed as manager, and after a slow start, Suarez eventually came into the team and helped inspire the side to the treble. Here’s how their six other signings that summer fared.
Read the full article at Planet Football.
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