Barcelona star Ousmane Dembele looks to be heading for an exit from the club in August.
The French international has become the focal point of a sudden transfer swoop from Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain as they plan for Kylian Mbappe’s possible departure.
Dembele’s current deal in Barcelona expires in 2024, with talks ongoing over a potential extension in Catalonia, as he looks to make a firm decision over his future.
PSG only have until the end of July to activate a €50m release clause in Dembele’s contract which jumps to €100m at the start of August.
Despite being inside the final 12 months of his contract, Barcelona are looking to ensure a fee for Dembele, and PSG are ready to pounce.
As per reports from Catalan outlet RAC1, Dembele has rejected Barcelona’s latest renewal offer, as he wants an annual salary of €6-7m.
‼️ ÚLTIMA HORA: el Barça dóna Dembélé per perdut @EsportsRAC1 🎙@Marta_Ramon
📌 El PSG li ha augmentat encara més l’oferta al jugador i no hi poden competir
📌 El PSG va enviar una carta ahir al Barça per demanar permís per negociar amb ell
📌 Mateu i Xavi intenten convènce’l pic.twitter.com/onBXnwqp9n
— El Barça juga a RAC1 (@FCBRAC1) July 30, 2023
The deal remains delicately poised, with Barcelona open to a sale, if Dembele has no intention of remaining at the club beyond 2024.
Dembele’s AGENT is unhappy with Barca’s offer, you mean. He was a drama queen last time around and Alemany made him look foolish; no doubt he’s asking for the moon again this time and doesn’t want to get embarrassed like he did two years ago.
While I love Dembouz and hope he stays (he’ll be making a mistake if he leaves), I’ll understand if the club want to quit playing games with his agent and just wash their hands of the whole thing.
I think he wants out .. Barca is not such an attractive place to play anymore
Looks like you are Madrid fan. Sorry!
Robert Lewandowski, Ilkay Gundugon, Jules Kounde, Andreas Christensen, Inigo Martinez, Franck Kessie and Raphina would like a word.
Every single one of those players had multiple offers and chose to come to Barca.
Let’s not get confused about the motivation here. I don’t blame Dembele for leaving, but he was making 12 million per, and his agent wanted a 50 per cent bump. PSG were wiling to do that, and Barca weren’t. Simple as that.
Nope dembele has said yes to the deal
Yep, just saw that Romano confirmed it. Hate to see him go, but maybe now the club can finally address the RB position.
Still don’t think he’s making the right decision, but life goes on.
Tbh i knew he was away after seeing and hearing xavis response to a question from the press about dembele after the victory over real madrid to which xavi replied you never really know with the transfer window you could see the huge disappointment and anger written all over his face during the interview.
To think barca will only get 25 million and he pockets the other 25 is crazy,when will barca ever learn from their errors and mistakes we were burned before by neymar and by the same club involved psg,i think alemany was the only one who seen what they were up to and what they really were,sadly xavi and the rest of the barca board didn’t.
In 2022-23, Dembouz was in the 99th percentile in La Liga for salary (12 Million per), but in the 42nd percentile for minutes played. Goal contributions per match were .02 higher than Raphina, and .13 less than Ansu, who is considered to be “underachieving”.
I wanted him to stay, but not with a 50 per cent bump in salary. If PSG want to give him that much, more power to them.
Yea dembele and his agent want the 💰💸 and psg are prepared to give them what they barca are not simple.
want
I knew the player don’t want stay, but rightnow he is about change his decision to renew contract with FCB.