Ousmane Dembele has offered a key reason why he opted to leave Barcelona for Paris Saint-Germain.
The French international made clear to his intention to join the Ligue 1 champions after PSG registered a firm transfer interest in him in July,
Despite Barcelona’s attempts to convince him to stay with the La Liga holders, he chose to begin a new chapter in his native country.
The 26-year-old winger agreed a five-year contract at the Parc des Princes after PSG activated his €50m release clause within the negotiations.
Dembele issued a positive message of thanks following his departure from Catalonia but he admitted the prospect of being a part of PSG’s future plans convinced him to move on.
“I spoke with the coach and president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and they told me about the project. Playing in France again made me excited too”, as per an interview with Telefoot, via Marca.
Dembele’s departure from Barcelona has been eased by the rapid rise of 16-year-old Lamine Yamal in recent weeks as the teenager continues to break records for club and country.
The project, lol.
He should just admit what everyone already knows; Barca wasn’t going to pay him 20 million a year to miss half the season and score a grand total of five league goals.
He is not mouthing bad words for Barca and moved on to PSG at the right time, allowing cash-strapped Barca to cash-in €50m valuable money.
He could have done it rather more easily in January 2024 as a free agent with Barca getting 0 cents from his departure.
Pls come out of ‘with-us or against-us’ mentality and have a life.
In fact, Dembele’s sale was the best business Barca did in the transfer window.
@haris
And he made room for Lamine Yamal or any other youngster in his place. It was a pretty much a win for both Barcelona and PSG. Now it remains to be seen if he’s going to be injured again. It’s a risk to get an injury-prone player, but the good news is there are replacements in case that happens.
I don’t agree with the hate comment but he could have handled his exit better.
Barca only got about 35 mil for one of their best players.
He could easily be worth over a 100 mil but he he chose the exit clause approach knowing very well Barca need cash and couldn’t replace him properly.
Broo Barcelona received just 25 and the rest goes to dembouz
Is true
My life is just fine, thank you. Please stop pretending he did Barca a favor; he waited until his release clause dropped from 100 million to 50 million and the 50/50 distribution clause kicked in, and didn’t even tell the club of his plans for leaving until less than a week before the season started. The only reason he didn’t leave the last time is because he and his agent went right down to the last day of the window and couldn’t find anyone to come close to what he was demanding for his “future Ballon d’ Or winner” and he had nowhere to go.
There are club players, there are professionals, and there are mercenaries. Ask the folks at Dortmund how they would describe him.
Dembele O, I don’t know if he will ever knows how to play football with reason because, he make a beautiful moves and end up at no target,
I never liked him for once,
I was disappointed when Braca resigned him last time. He’s not a good footballer, His passes is always off targets, his crosses same and his shot was never on goals or on target,
I’m glad he has let.
The young Lamine is better player than him albeit,can’t be relied on in a hurry because of his age
@ John F
I totally agree with you, not because I’m a Barca fan, but also a fan of this great sport. This guy has done nothing really for Barcelona and I highly doubt that Dembele has 25 goals for the club smh. He was a waste of buy for the club no joke but this is the truth. Personally I’m happy he left trust mi I am. He is the first player I have ever seen came back from a injury and take long to build back rhythm and get back to the form he was at before he got injured or even close