Monday, August 30, 2010

Gabriele Marcotti: Expensive Divorce for Barcelona, Ibrahimovic

When you've made the second-biggest deal in the history of soccer and, 12 months later, you're not getting the kind of return you expect, sometimes it's best to bite the bullet and cut your losses.

Barcelona's sale of Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic to AC Milan in an unusual deal whereby the Italian club takes him on loan for the 2010-11 season (meaning he plays for and is paid by Milan but he technically remains a Barcelona player) and then pays €24 million ($31 million) to acquire him outright next summer is a textbook case of the above.

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