3 top players who regret joining Barcelona

#1 Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Zlatan fell out with then-boss Pep and the rest was history

His time at Barcelona is perhaps the only blight on Zlatan Ibrahimovic's career. Having moved from Inter Milan in 2009 for a deal worth €69.5m (£60.7m), Zlatan started off well enough at the Nou Camp.

However, things took a dramatic turn for the worse when he was pushed wide in order to accommodate Lionel Messi in Barca's centre-forward role.

"It started well but then [Lionel] Messi started to talk. He wanted to play in the middle, not on the wing, so the system changed from 4-3-3 to 4-5-1. I was sacrificed and no longer had the freedom on the pitch I need to succeed." - Ibrahimovic in his autobiography ‘I am Zlatan’.

Zlatan remarkably fell out with coach Pep Guardiola, thus hastening his exit after just one season at the Nou Camp.

"I yelled: 'You haven't got any b****!' and worse than that I added: 'You can go to hell!' I completely lost it, and you might have expected Guardiola to say a few words in response, but he's a spineless coward. He just [...] left, never to mention it again, not a word."

Although his career was unaffected by this failed move, it was surely the Swede's most difficult year as a professional footballer - not least at one of the world's best clubs.