Barcelona chief Pep Segura insists there were no plans to sell Ivan Rakitic last summer.
Rakitic was a target for PSG.
But Segura said: "We did not contemplate his departure. We knew that he had an option from abroad. We had no interest in him leaving.
"In Spanish football there is a very complex weapon against us which are the buyout clauses. We are the only league with clauses and the danger is there but neither the club nor the player wanted a way out.
"There is no case."