Barcelona are set to take another crack at finally solving their striker woes in January - after wasting in excess of £370million on attacking flops over the past few years.
Barca icon Xavi Hernandez recently returned to the Nou Camp after ex- Everton boss Ronald Koeman was axed following a disastrous reign.
The Spaniard has a huge rebuilding job on his hands - with Barca in a rough financial state off the pitch and in disarray on it.
The club were dumped out of the Champions League at the group stage for the first time in over 20 years last week. Things aren't much better in La Liga, either, with Barca currently slumped in eighth spot.
Xavi has reportedly made it clear that Barcelona's priority in the January transfer window has to be signing a striker; an area where they've struggled in recent years.
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In fact, since the arrival of Luis Suarez in 2014, Barca have repeatedly missed the target when it comes to snapping up elite marksmen.
The Uruguay star was a hit at the Nou Camp, forming an integral part of the club's infamous 'MSN' strikeforce alongside Lionel Messi and Neymar.
But those days feel a long way off given Barca's current woes.
Since Suarez's arrival, Barcelona have spent over £370m on attacking reinforcements - with the vast majority of them have turning out to be mega-money flops.
Over half of that total was spent on gargantuan deals Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembele.
Barca splashed out £107m to lure Griezmann to the Nou Camp from rivals Atletico Madrid, whilst the Catalan giants agreed an eye-watering £135.5m package with Borussia Dortmund for Dembele.
But the duo struggled to live up to their bulging price tags at Barca.
Dembele has managed just 30 goals in over 120 appearances at the Nou Camp in a spell ravaged by injury. Griezmann didn't fare much better and was offloaded back to Atletico on a loan deal this summer with an option for Atletico to resign their talisman for a paltry £34.4m - a deal which would represent a staggering loss of over £70m for Barca.
Although Griezmann and Dembele make up the bulk of that remarkable £370m, they haven't been the only ones to drown in the sea of expectation in Catalonia.
Barca wasted good money on Arda Turn (£24m) and Paco Alcacer (£25.5m) who both turned out to be short of goals. Francisco Trincao's arrival in a £26m deal from Braga has also turned out to be a modestly-priced mistake. The Portuguese winger was farmed out on loan to Premier League side Wolves this summer after just a year in Spain.
Malcom was another expensive flop who was offloaded just a year after his £36.5m move from Bordeaux. Somehow, Barca managed to recoup the majority of that fee from Zenit St Petersburg, despite Malcom netting just once in 15 La Liga outings.
Even the club's more modest signings have fallen flat.
A relatively cheap (£1.8m) loan deal to bring Kevin Prince-Boateng seemed bizarre from the off, whilst the controversial £15m swoop for former Middlesbrough flop Martin Braithwaite left fans bewildered.
But in many ways, the deal for Braithwaite encapsulates Barcelona's fall from grace over the past year. It's not hard to see how the club have been destroyed by their own ludicrous spending splurges when you look at some of the sub-par signings the Nou Camp hierarchy have made in recent years.
Sergio Aguero 's sad and untimely retirement due to a heart condition earlier this week has made signing a striker a necessity in the January window.
Both Ferran Torres and Edinson Cavani have been linked with a transfer to the Nou Camp in the New Year.
Reports have also linked the likes of Alexis Sanchez, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Arthur Cabral, all high-profile players currently out of favour, as potential alternative options to bolster a beleaguered frontline that has relied heavily on the individual brilliance of Memphis Depay this year.
Depay has been one of Barcelona's rare success stories amidst a catalogue of expensive mishaps in recent years.
It's down to Xavi and his new Barcelona regime to buck that trend.
Barcelona's £371.3m mistakes:
Antoine Griezmann (£107m)
Arda Turan (£24m)
Paco Alcacer (£25.5m)
Ousmane Dembele (£135.5m)
Malcom (£36.5m)
Kevin Prince-Boateng (£1.8m loan)
Martin Braithwaite (£15m)
Francisco Trincao (£26m)
