After Ousmane Dembélé’s refusal to extend, Joan Laporta, the president of FC Barcelona, assured that the French international will no longer wear the Blaugrana jersey next season.
Ousmane Dembélé’s situation will now be a tricky case for FC Barcelona to manage. At the end of the contract next June, the 24-year-old winger has still not extended his lease with the Blaugranas, despite several requests from Xavi Hernandez, his coach and discussions with his leaders. But the negotiations dragged on between the entourage of the French international and the Catalan board, which pushed Dembélé to leave this winter.
According to our information, Paris Saint-Germain had verbal agreement from the 24-year-old French international (27 caps – 4 goals) and his entourage to come to the capital this winter, but in the end, Dembélé stayed at Barça. A difficult choice to understand for Joan Laporta, the Catalan president. “Dembélé’s future was one of the most surprising cases. We offered him an extension, it was very good, the player said it was not an economic issue, but in the end he wanted a higher offer. He did not want to accept any of the proposals that were made to him.he explained.
Ousmane Dembélé did not want to go to England this winter
Present in the Camp Nou auditorium for an economic press conference, the boss of the Barcelona club took the opportunity to charge the French international and revealed that he had refused to leave for England, where Chelsea seemed interested. “The negotiations got bogged down and the agent took the position of saying nothing more. Not saying anything has consequences for the interests of the club. There were two good offers for him, but he didn’t want to accept them, especially the last one, which was an English club where he could have developed his game..
More surprisingly, Joan Laporta has claimed that Ousmane Dembélé will no longer be at Barcelona next season. “He preferred to stay here for these six months, it’s not good for him or for the club. An extension would have allowed us to work more calmly, it is difficult to understand Dembélé’s position. We have him on the team. If it’s a player we won’t have next season? You can tell. We believe he has an agreement with another club, that’s what his agents have suggested to us.
