Barcelona
Updated:01/27/2022 01:46h
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In the absence of four days for the winter transfer market to close, the case Dembele is still stuck. The wishes of the French footballer, who whenever he meets Xavi reiterates that he wants to stay, do not agree with the demands of his representative, Moussa Sissoko, that he is not willing to give up a large transfer bonus and plays with the freedom card that he will obtain on June 30 to negotiate obscene figures with other clubs. Sissoko is willing for Dembélé to renew with Barça but under the same conditions offered by clubs like PSG, Newcastle, Manchester United, Juventus or Chelsea. And the option to pass half a year without playing It doesn’t frighten or affect him in the least.
In the last meeting he had with Matthew German, football director of the Catalan club, the agent demanded 30 million euros gross per season (a higher tab than what he currently charges), more variables depending on the games played. To this figure should be added 15 million for him and another 30 for renewal premium for the footballer. Unaffordable figures for the battered economy of the entity chaired by Joan Laporta, who has ruled out seeing Sissoko again and has demanded the immediate departure of the French footballer.
Sissoko is in Barcelona, in a last attempt to redirect a negotiation that has been perverted after pressure from Barcelona to force the contract extension. A common practice under the mandate of Joan Laporta, who in his first stage at the Barça club forced the departure of Dani Garcia Lara and Roberto Bonano, leaving them without a card, separating them from the team until they agreed to leave in December, and recently with Ilaix Moriba, who, not wanting to renew his contract, which expired in 2022, descended to the subsidiary and went on to watch all the games from the stands until he agreed to be transferred to Leipzig.
«Laporta came to the presidency with Rijkaard as coach and told me that I was going to be one of his casualties. They left me training alone, apart from my colleagues, until January. That was not fair and I denounced Barça for bullying. Before the trial was held, we reached an agreement, they let me go and I signed for Zaragoza. But those six months away, left me with psychological consequences for the following years, ”recalled Dani García Lara, hurt.
Dembélé, on the other hand, is not willing to let himself be pressured and faces the possibility of spending the rest of the season without playing, although it is not clear that he will be removed from the team. Even if Xavi has left him out of the last two calls by express order of the club and assures that he does not contemplate another scenario other than an exit in the coming days, he will prioritize coexistence in the locker room if they finally cannot get rid of the winger. If not, it would be in contradiction. «Did I hang out in the stands? I am very clear about that, if he has a contract he has to play, also because of the club’s image. I do not value that option, I do not contemplate it, ”he assured at the beginning of December.
A regular rebel
Barcelona has found a bad enemy in the talented attacker, accustomed to conflicts and pulses. He threw it to Rennes to be able to sign for the Dortmund and a year later he declared himself in absentia to sign for the Barça club. Bartomeu praised the Frenchman’s decision without contemplating that a rebel remains one regardless of the colors he defends. And Laporta, who assured that “Dembélé is better than Mbappé” He has run into the demand of his representative, who demands a better salary than that of the PSG striker. Barcelona needs the renewal or departure of Dembélé this week to be able to sign Alvaro Morata, to whom the imminent arrival of Vlahovic to Juventus could allow him to stop at the Camp Nou. The wage bill suffocates the Catalan club and the Frenchman has the key to lighten it. Newcastle or PSG could settle the ballot and take it away six months earlier than expected.
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