It’s just a matter of days. Ousmane Demélé will soon be a PSG player.
Barring a cataclysm, Ousmane Dembélé will be a Paris Saint-Germain player this season. Monday evening, the leaders of the capital club and their FC Barcelona counterparts were still negotiating the arrival of the tricolor international, who is linked to the Blaugrana until June 2024.
According The Team, an agreement would have been found for several days between its representatives and the Parisian president, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, around a contract of four or five years. Dembélé had a release clause of 50 million but asked the Rouge et Bleu to negotiate with Barça in order to leave “properly”. “Barça by pocketing a higher net compensation (given what he should have paid to Dembélé), PSG by negotiating a payment spread over several instalments. The Catalan leaders gave the former Rennais five days to find such common ground. Otherwise, the champions of France could then activate the famous clause “specifies the sports daily.
🚨 Dembélé’s departure price at PSG is set at 50M.
Under a private agreement between Barcelona and the player, if Dembélé let Barca know his willingness to leave before July 31, regardless of what was stipulated in his clause.@relevo – @mundodeportivo🇪🇸
— Paris_SGINFOS (@Paris_SGINFOS) August 1, 2023
Ousmane Démbélé’s release clause was set to double after July 31. The negotiations having been launched before August 1, the PSG should therefore not pay such a transfer fee to FC Barcelona. On the other hand, he will probably pay more than 50 million.
