Ousmane Dembele continues without a team. It’s been a week since he finished his contract with Barça and he hasn’t signed for anyone. The 25-year-old striker has doubts about his future, despite the fact that Xavi continues to insist on his desire for him to continue at the Camp Nou, where he has spent the last five seasons offering performances as irregular as, at times, infuriating. Dembele He has taken his time to decide whether to accept the lower offer (he would receive 40% less than his previous salary) proposed by the management of Joan Laporta.
No, it has not been this last week but for several months in which the striker, through his agent Moussa Sissokhas avoided a response to the Barça proposal causing the anger of Mateu Alemany, club football director But now, as revealed by Mundo Deportivo, Dembele accept (he has not said it publicly) that lower offer and renew for two more years (until 2024) so everything remains in the hands of Barça.
A Xavi He would love to have French immediately. The technician already got away with it during the last winter market when he reinstated Dembele in the group after he refused to go through the exit door that opened for him Germany, Tired as the executive was of that silence from the soccer player’s agents.
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For Xavi it would be ideal to be able to take Dembele to the tour of the United States that begins next Friday. And if he has him this Monday training with the group in the sports city of Sant Joan Despí, much better still. But the case is still open. He has been like this for months, awaiting a final resolution, while the player, as usual, comes and goes in his position.
He comes and goes under that indecipherable halo that has generated anger in the sports executive structure of Barça, no matter how much Xavi remains convinced that well trained he can make Dembélé one of the best players in the world in his position.