Barcelona will find it 'difficult' to sign new players in January – sporting director Deco

Barcelona sporting director Deco with Joao Felix after the Portuguese winger signed on loan in September.
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Barcelona sporting director Deco has admitted that it will be "difficult" for the Catalan club to sign new players in January.

Barça saw their spending severely restricted in the summer due to their ongoing financial struggles, with Ilkay Gundogan and Iñigo Martinez arriving in free transfers and Oriol Romeu brought in for a cut-price €3.4 million.

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Ben Hayward
Weekend editor

Ben Hayward is the Weekend Editor of FourFourTwo. A European football writer and Tottenham Hotspur fan with over 15 years’ experience, he has covered games all over the world - including three World Cups, several Champions League finals, Euros, Copa America - and has spent much of that time in Spain. Ben speaks English and Spanish, currently dividing his time between Barcelona and London, covering all the big talking points of the weekend on FFT: he’s also written several list features and interviewed Guglielmo Vicario for the magazine.