Barcelona have become concerned by the spending power of the Premier League as they had to abandon their pursuit of Paul Pogba.

Barcelona instead shifted to signing Andre Gomes, Paco Alcacer, Samuel Umtiti and Lucas Digne.

"Since the Premier League became so strong in the market, Spanish clubs are no longer the clubs that invest the most," Barcelona's Albert Soler said. "If we'd spent €100 million on a player, we could only have signed one. And with €122 million we've signed six. We have changed the philosophy a little: we've gone for younger players.

"Last year we agreed with Juve that if they wanted to sell Pogba during that window we would have priority. But Juve did not want to sell and we did not need to try and push it. We were in an electoral campaign and a signing of that calibre could not be made by a provisional board."