Joan Laporta issues update on Ousmane Dembélé situation after transfer deadline

Joan Laporta has issued an update on the Ousmane Dembélé situation.

Dembélé still hasn’t signed a new Barcelona contract and he still hasn’t left the club.

Barca threatened the winger with selling him if he did not accept a new contract, but the threat proved an empty one.

The Blaugrana couldn’t get Dembélé to sign a new deal and they couldn’t convince him to leave ahead of the January deadline, which passed on Monday evening.

Dembélé is now set to leave at the end of the season, and he is already free to agree a pre-contract agreement with any team outside Spain.

Barcelona now face losing the man they spent more than €100million to get in 2017 for absolutely nothing.

And Laporta’s latest update doesn’t suggest any real good news for Barca.

“He has not wanted to accept any proposition that we have offered,” he said in today’s press conference.

“It’s not good for him or for the club, the renewal gave us salary margin, but the positioning is not understood. We think he has an agreement with another club and we will act in our own interest.”

Just what that ‘act’ is remains to be seen, but Barca have limited options, only able to attempt to convince the winger to stay, lose him for free in the summer or release him now at a significant cost.

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13 Comments

  1. Use him as much as possible let him earn his money hopefully he will pick up long term injury and no club want him then

    1. Good you…he is a useless and ungrateful footballer.. 70% of his time at Barcelona was use on bench and hospital for treatment with injury… still yet he can not compensate the club.. this is a bad business with him..

    2. You think he would even bother to run? We are risking losing important games because of a player who doesn’t want to play even on a good day (when he’s not late for training). And, how will we explain to players who actually respect the club that man who mocks us is higher in the pecking order? I say terminate him!

    3. Do you think he’s that stupid to be used like that?
      The answer is just make him happy at the club, and he’ll sign for you.

    4. A totally wasted investment. His attitude will resound as he knows he is showing ingratitude being injured & showing lack of discipline throughout his tenure at Barca. Karma is like a boomerang. It’s all coming back to him and his agent. Wait for it. Let him sit out the rest of his tenure. Will be the same nonetheless.

  2. That ridiculous guy doesn’t give nothing to the club always injured he spends more time injuries than playing kick his f***ck ass out of the club

    1. He is a useless player that contributed nothing but problems since he came.
      If his contract can be terminated with limited cost, terminate if not use him like hell till end of season. Soon now, he will be injured, he is never free from the treatment table

  3. Just terminate his contract or something or really make sure he get one he’ll of an injury or don’t even let him wear that jersey anymore give it to someone else he doesn’t deserve to wear a barca jersey

  4. Xavi stop been adamant and let this ungratfull player go or sit in the stands for the rest of the season.Barca is Barca without him.Messi,Etoo,Gaucho etc all left but BARCA still survive. We love BARCA more than any other player.

  5. I am proud to become Barcelona fan with the arrival of Aubameyang. Wish him good luck. This confirms that my numerous friends and myself have decided to stop being Arsenal fans.
    Good bye to inexperienced people’s management style à là Arteta. Now,
    we greatly miss Arsene Wenger.

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