According to the Spanish newspaper AS, both clubs were one step away from finalizing a double exchange of star footballers, but the negotiation fell at the last minute.
It is not news that in the past pass market, the Barcelona He tried to rearm the squad adjusting to the difficult economic situation in which the club was passing. In this reorganization of the first team due to the financial crisis, the departure of Lionel Messi It was a fact and the cuts in the salaries of the great figures like Gerard Piqué, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba too. However today, the Spanish newspaper As revealed that the Culé was on the verge of specifying a double exchange of stars with Manchester City, which could not come to fruition.
According to account Esport3, Ousmane Dembélé was in the exit plans in the last transfer window of the Blaugrana team. Who is the sports director of the Barcelona entity, Mateu Alemany, was aware that Pep Guardiola He is a great admirer of the French winger and he took a flight to Manchester to visit the Catalan strategist to open the negotiation.
As reported, at first the City did not want to pay the proposed amount and that is why the Catalan team and the citizens reached an agreement to exchange Dembélé and Ronald Araujo, who would leave Can Barça, so that in exchange for them two arrive at the institution of Catalonia Aymeric Laporte y Raheem Sterling.
However, the Barca would not have been convinced with the double barter and therefore offered a single exchange: Dembélé by Sterling. Regarding this trick, almost all the parties saw the conditions of the exchange well, except for one of the protagonists. The English striker was against the concretion of the negotiation and it was because of him that the negotiation ended up and did not come to fruition. Anyway, it should be noted that, although it was close to leaving, the situation of the French winger seems to have changed with the arrival of Xavi to the Culé team bench.
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