He mutinied in Germany to sign for Barça in the summer of 2017 seeking a forced exit from Borussia Dortmund. So, that radical stance came in handy – he even refused to train – for Bartomeu’s board to invest 50% of what he had received from Neymar for him.
And now, winter 2021, he has spent many weeks and even months haggling with Barça about his future, wanting to be Ousmane Dembele master of his destiny as of next January 1. He is free in June 2022 and the Barça club has gotten tired of waiting for him. In addition, outraged by the requests of the French striker. Unavoidable requests, they argue at the Camp Nou.
He asked, for example, 30 million euros to renew. A special bonus, even though it was free. Then, 15 million more for his agent, setting his new salary at 30 gross, which would make him the best paid of the staff, with a salary worthy of the prepandemic.
Barça does not rule out the Frenchman’s departure in this winter market, although it is something very complex
Something that neither Joan Laporta ni Matthew German, the director of football of the Barcelona club, they want to accept. Once all those requests from the forward’s agent were rejected, Barça did not rule out any scenario. Nor what Dembele he leaves in this same winter market or even that he does not play anymore dressed as a Barça player.
Find a way out to release wage bill
Barça has gotten tired of Dembélé, while in Europe there are Premier clubs (Chelsea with Tuchel, the coach who had him at Dortmund), Juventus and Paris SG who watch attentively and empty-handed – without paying a single euro for his signing – because they believe that they will know how to tame the rebel, something that neither knew nor could anyone do at the Camp Nou.
If the French does not renew, the Barça club must find, and urgently, a way out to lighten the salary mass and thus allow the registration of the two new winter signings: Alves and Ferran Torres.
With Barça’s patience exhausted, he said one thing to Xavi in the dressing room and then his agent defended the opposite at the negotiating table, the forward’s situation became entrenched.
As much as the technician has already said that he would use it even if he decided not to continue. But if Xavi has more resources (Torres, the nine that must arrive, Ansu, Memphis, Abde, Ilias, Braithwaite& mldr;) their position seems very gloomy because Laporta, along with Alemany, do not want to cross any red line of the salary framework, forced as they are to reduce it.
If he does not follow the French, the club must look for other ways to find accommodation in the ‘fair play’ salary for Ferran Torres
Even without Messi or Griezmann, Barça spends 430 million euros on its squad. There is no club in Europe that pays so much. “For me, he is better than Mbappé”, said the president to straighten the negotiation. “He can be the best in the world in his position,” said Xavi.
Such good words were useless, rather they worked the opposite effect in the negotiation because the forward’s agent understood that there was money to sign Ferran now and think about the summer in Haaland why not to pay what Ousmane asked to seal his renewal. On the downside, yes.
Dribbling to the club
In October a deadline was set to close or not the operation. There was no answer. In November, the next. More of the same. And on December 29, just 48 hours before Dembele be the sole owner of his future, the conversations broke down in a climate of tension. And fed up on the part of the club. And so, in the Ousmane way, dribbling, dribbling, dodging the passage of time, he positioned himself as he wished in the market.
The breakdown of the negotiations leaves the striker in a difficult position in the team, despite Xavi saying he would count on him
Related news
With 24 years, and after being the third most expensive signing in the history of Barça (105 million) although at the time it was the first later surpassed by Coutinho (160) and Griezmann (135), Dembélé fulfills his fifth and final season of contract .
But neither with Valverde, Setién, Koeman or now Xavi has been the destabilizing piece that the team demanded or also demanded his star salary. He has lived almost longer in the infirmary (suffered 13 injuries and is now infected with coronavirus) than on the lawn. Proof of his ghostly time at Barça is his current contribution: eight games out of 24. And zero goals.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com