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Daily Mirror
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Joseph McBride

Barcelona failed in desperate Chelsea transfer hijack because "they had no money"

It's been revealed that Barcelona have finally 'run out of money' after failing to hijack Chelsea 's transfer of Kalidou Koulibaly.

The Catalan side appear to have been linked with everyone this summer, and as far as transfer windows go, they've had one of the best. They've brought in Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha for a combined £90million, and also signed both Franck Kessie and Andreas Christensen on free transfers.

But they've done so despite being short of finances, and the club have even sold some of their La Liga TV rights in order to help survive in the short-term. But Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has confirmed that Barcelona are now out of money, as they came in for Koulibaly at the last second.

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