Barcelona somehow went trophyless at the start of the millennium
All of those players cost under €10m, but even more genius than that was Henrik Larsson and Giovanni van Bronckhorst joining for free from Celtic andBelletti may be the MVP of the lot, though, scoring the winning goal against Arsenal in the 2006 Champions League final to lift Barca back to the pinnacle with their second European Cup.
The other scorer in that match was the final name from 2004 and the only one we haven’t mentioned yet, Samuel Eto’o. He’s been left until last because he was the biggest show of Laporta’s skills, and the only time he overruled Guardiola.manager arrived in 2008 he cut Ronaldinho, Deco and Eto’o as a show of power and standard setting.
However, Laporta overruled his coach, and was rewarded with yet another Champions League final goal in 2009 against Manchester United from the striker signed from Mallorca for €24m.. Who, would you believe it, also joined the first team squad in ‘04 when he was promoted from the academy. Not a transfer but a sign of the amazing work at the club's academy, La Masia. It shows just how incredible the summer of 2004 was that it took arguably the greatest player of all-time to outshine Laporta and Barca's signings.Samuel Eto'o, €24m from MallorcaMaxi Lopez, €6.2m from River PlateDemetrio Albertini, free transfer from AtalantaLionel Messi, promoted from Barcelona B
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