The Barça does not accept the high economic requests of Dembélé, who from January 1, this Saturday, will be able to freely decide their future. The club, tired of waiting for months for an affirmative response from the player to the downward renewal proposal, has been planted.
The Barcelona directive considers disproportionate the economic demands posed by the French striker, who said to Xavi On the one hand, he wanted to continue at the Camp Nou, but then at the negotiating table his agent implied the opposite, to the point of requesting a card that placed him as the best paid of the squad.
The representation of Dembélé maintains that if there is money to sign Ferran Torres or betting on Haaland in the summer does not understand that the club does not please him. Something that has caused anger in the Camp Nou offices remembering his poor performance (up to 13 injuries he has had) in the four and a half years that he has been Barça.
Now, Barça, which had the renewal of Dembélé to lighten the salary mass, is looking for other ways to be able to register Ferran Torres. Routes that pass, above all, through the departure of other footballers, especially Coutinho, which has disappeared from Xavi’s plans (0 minutes against Elche, 0 against Sevilla), and Umtiti (a match of 24 possible) to fit the former Manchester City forward in the fair play set by the League. He has until January 31 to find the right salary framework for Xavi to use Ferran.
Without crossing red lines
Laporta believes that the red lines of the new salary framework should not be crossed, something that Dembélé demanded, who also asked for a succulent renewal bonus to continue. The striker, who is in his fifth and final season at the Camp Nou, handles offers from the Premier, while Paris SG and Juventus are closely monitoring the final outcome of the negotiations with Barça that have entered a point of conflict.
The board needs to lower the wage bill, which with 430 million euros, and despite the departure of Messi and Griezmann, is still the highest in Europe. That is why he does not comply with Dembélé’s requests because they would raise it and return him, again, to the salaries prior to the pandemic. Renewing the Frenchman in the conditions that the Frenchman requests would imply, according to Barça, going back to the times in which the salary mass ran out of control when the League required him to further reduce sports spending.
The club has tired of waiting for the player, who handles offers from the Premier with Paris SG and Juve also pending their future
The breakdown of contacts, revealed by journalist Gerard Romero, revealed the differences between both parties. In addition, that money that Dembélé was asking for should be reserved for the summer in search of the signing of the media and sports star who becomes the true figure of Laporta’s second project.
Haaland is the figure that meets the profile sought by the president, forced to seek financial resources to undertake that transfer, above the 100 million euros, that Borussia Dortmund is demanding.
Long puzzling negotiations
After months of long and disconcerting wait in which Laporta has praised Dembélé (“for me, he is better than Mbappé”), Barça considers that it cannot attend to what he demands. Cross the red lines set by Mateu Alemany, the football director of the Barça club. Not even the pampering of Xavi (“Ousmane may be the best in the world in his position”) have achieved the affirmative answer. The forward said one thing in the locker room and his agent verbalized quite another at the negotiating table.
Xavi said that he would use it although he did not renew, but an exit in the winter market is not ruled out either
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Now, the sports scene is also complicated for the French, unless, of course, a way out is found in this winter market, which would free Barça from its high profile and would allow it to register Ferran Torres. Xavi said that he would use Dembélé, but the breakdown of the negotiations could cause a change.
If the technician has Ferran, already adjusted to the fair play, and the nine that he has requested (Morata, as revealed by the newspaper AS, is on his list) together with the return of Ansu Fati and Memphis, in addition to the options that come from the subsidiary (Ilias, Abde and Jutglà) and the recovered Braithwaite would leave little space for Dembélé.
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