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In the last 7 years Barça have spent €55M (as far as we know) on players from the Brazilian league. But curiously, they have missed all the great talents that have emerged in that time. Below is a review that makes cold sweats.

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It all started in the summer of 2013, when Barça paid € 7.9 million to Santos for a preferential purchase option over Gabriel Barbosa, Giva and Victor Andrade. An amount that everyone links to the simulated contracts of the Neymar Case. None of the three came to Barcelona.

Giva ended up passing through Llagostera and Badalona. He currently plays in the Brazilian third division. Víctor Andrade still plays in the Brazilian first division. Gabriel took an unsuccessful step through Europe and has gone from transfer to transfer until returning to Brazil

Barça repeats these operations in the 2014/15 season,when it pays € 3.2 million to Fluminense for preferential purchase option over Gerson,Marlon & Kenedy. It was then said that if Barça did not finally buy any of the three,they would return the money.only Marlon came to Barca.

Gerson signed for Roma, where he did not succeed & has returned to Brazil. Kenedy signed for Chelsea and has played for a thousand teams. Last season he played for Getafe & this season he will play for Granada. For Marlon,Barça ended up paying €5M after going through subsidiary.

In the same 2014/15 season, Barça paid € 5.5 million to Sao Paulo for Douglas Pereira, an operation that even the Brazilians found incomprehensible. He played 8 games with Barça in two seasons. He is now in the Turkish league.

In the 2015/16 season,strange things began to happen at Barça B. It is not known when was Fluminense paid transfer fee of R Gonçalves, but he only played 30 minutes with B team in the Copa Catalunya. He is now 23 years old and is without a team after going through the HK league.

In 2017/18, Vitinho arrived on loan to Barça B from Palmeiras with a € 15M purchase option which we never exercised. Interestingly, it is the same year that Barça signed Yerri Mina from Palmeiras for € 11.8 million. The following season they were both out of the club.

In 2018/19 the winner is Gabriel Novaes,who arrived on loan from Sao Paulo for a 1.5 year with a "mandatory" purchase option of €5M. Barca wanted to give him to Nastic. But bureaucratic problems prevent it.6 months later returned to Brazil. He now plays in Brazilian 2nd division

In 2019/20,€12M was paid to Atlético Mineiro for Emerson Royal.He was immediately transferred to Betis until 2021.But if FCB want to get him back,they have to pay €6m to Betis.Once they get him back and sells him to a 3rd team,they have to give 50% of the transfer fee to Betis.

During the last winter market, Barça paid € 7m to Palmeiras for Matheus Fernandes and transferred him to Valladolid, where he played for 166 minutes. He is currently doing pre-season with Barça's first team.

This summer, €4.5M was paid to Sao Paulo for Gustavo Maia, who have a record with Barça B.he is not the only Brazilian who has signed for the B team this summer,as the €8M for the purchase option on Matheus Pereira have already been paid.Although in this case he comes from JUV.

Coincidentally, Juve paid € 8.2m last January for Alejandro Marqués, a Barça striker, and now charges € 8m for Matheus Pereira. The same team that supposedly bought Arthur from us for € 72M and sold Pjanic to us for € 60M.

It also coincides that Barça's operations in Brazil are always with same teams: suddenly we are interested in 3 players from Santos, then 4 from Fluminense, then 3 from Sao Paulo, and now 3 from Palmeiras. Curious,right? And it could be that they are the clubs that Barça control.

But somehow all the good ones have escaped from us.Neither Felipe Anderson or Rodrygo from Santos,nor Richarlison,or Joao Pedro from Fluminense,nor David Neres, Eder Militao or Antony from Sao Paulo,nor Gabriel Jesus from Palmeiras.All of them sold in this same period of 7 years.

And despite the infinity of operations carried out and the coves spent in Brazil, we have not been able to detect Bruno Guimaraes (Lyon), nor Gabriel Martinelli, who came specifically to be tested at Barça, we rejected him and now he is at Arsenal), or Gabriel Magalhaes...

...nor Vinícius or Renier(Madrid), nor Lucas Paquetá (Milan), nor Pedrinho (Benfica), nor Paulinho(Bayer Leverkusen), nor Luiz Felipe (Lazio).In short, that we have not detected all the outstanding under-23s in Brazil,Only those who have recommended Traffic and André Cury to us.

Credit to @Boncopdefail