Expected in Paris, Ousmane Dembélé leaves Barça sounded and angry. And for good reason.
For a long time, FC Barcelona believed they could extend Ousmane Dembélé’s contract – a long-discussed lease extension. PSG nevertheless arrived like a dog in a bowling game, questioning everything in the minds of the player and his advisers. Today the deal is clear: if it is not yet official, the tricolor wisp will be Parisian this season. Agreements have been reached and the person concerned has already reached the capital.
There remains the desolation of the Catalan side, where the outcome obviously took everyone by surprise. In the pages of the daily Sport, an internal source at the Blaugrana club does not go out of its way, denouncing ” deception on the part of the player and his agent “. Meetings have multiplied in recent days in the United States, where Barça observes its pre-season internship, sometimes in the very presence of Xavi Hernandez. Yet nothing worked. Blame it on the excessive demands of the Dembélé clan.
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In the eyes of the Barcelona leaders, the requests made to validate the extension of the contract were quite simply ” insulting », « well over 100 million euros over the next five seasons “. Or the proposal made by PSG to enlist the former Rennais. “ An unaffordable amount “, according to the club of President Laporta who until then still remunerated Ousmane Dembélé up to 10 million euros annually.
