What's even more sad is that their team still looks totally shit without Messi.
Well, but if you account individually for each of those players that puts us above 500M
Suarez was signed 4 years ago, and has done more than enough to justify his price, even tho he's not the same now.
Neymar was "above 100M", he delivered with his performances, and left leaving a surplus of 100M.
Coutinho has been here for 4 months.
Dembelé has been injured.
Griezmann is not even here.
Add to that the ban to sign players a couple years ago (which hurt not only our first team, but all the other youth teams) and that 9 players that were, let's put it midly, in the plans for our future, were banned from playing in the youth ranks and we can start to understand how this imbalanced squad came to be the sad thing that Messi carries around.
Chances to get things right were slim in the past 3/4 years with the ban looming over us or being active, I think we're doing alright and that from those 500M spent we can't have anything to argue against at this point, we'll see if Coutinho, Dembele or Griezmann deliver, but so far those signings are not our problem.