Barcelona are back to being linked with the very best players in football and money is now no object again - or at least that is the narrative that is being pushed out.
Liverpool's contract stalemate that still exists with Mohamed Salah has only served to add fuel to the fire and to claims that the Egyptian is a target for the Spanish giants. And Erling Haaland, a player who a club with healthy financials such as Liverpool would likely baulk at the cost, is also being mentioned as someone ready to heady to the Nou Camp, so too Bayern Munich's talismanic Robert Lewandowski.
But there is a reality that exists behind the headlines, one where Barcelona have to deal in real money and not Monopoly money, a reality that involves having to actually confront the financial carnage that arrived at the Nou Camp when the pandemic hit, one that saw their financial recklessness of some years actually come home to roost.
