The 2021/22 season will be the first one where Lionel Messi doesn't feature as a first team player for FC Barcelona since 2003/04, a tumultuous time that preceded a highly successful era for the 'Blaugrana'.
Only six soccer clubs in the world are valued at over a billion dollars when onlytaking market value into account, according to Transfermarkt, but there are many catching up in the constantly evolving race for financial and sporting supremacy.
Every transfer in soccer history is made with the same express wish: to improve performance on the pitch and raise the club's stature. There are extraordinary sums paid nowadays to secure players' services, but they do not always pan out.
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