FC Barcelona has tried to bring club legend Andres Iniesta back to the Camp Nou, reports have claimed.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media that playing his trade at Vissel Kobe where still performs at a high level, the World Cup winner has just lifted his 37th career trophy with his current employers to close in on former teammate Dani Alves’s 40 hauls as the most decorated individual player of all time.

Resorting to desperate measures in the recent transfer window, however, the outfit that he won the bulk of his silverware with during its most successful era was forced to make an approach to the midfielder who tearfully left them after securing a domestic double in 2018 under Ernesto Valverde.