5 most expensive players ever to be sent out on loan

#2 Zlatan Ibrahimovic – £57 million

It was strange that Pep Guardiola decided to bring Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Barcelona with Samuel Eto’o going the other way to Inter. Barcelona’s deal to sign Ibrahimovic summed up to £57 million and he wasn’t all that bad either.

Even now, in his mid-30s, Zlatan can put up brilliant performances week-in and week-out – that’s the quality he has. However, his differences with then-Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola became the fundamental reason for his ostracising at the Camp Nou.

After only one season, he was loaned off to Milan, where he took the Serie A by storm in his comeback season, scoring 21 goals in 41 games to help Milan win the Scudetto. After his heroics at San Siro, he was signed on a permanent transfer for £20 million.