No solution by transfer deadline?
“Ousmane Dembélé has to leave the club as soon as possible,” said managing director Mateu Alemany eleven days ago. Not much has happened since then: the 24-year-old is still at FC Barcelona at the start of Deadline Day. The search for a buyer has so far been unsuccessful. In their desperate efforts, the Catalans even offered the offensive player to Paris Saint-Germain, although the relationship between the two clubs has been broken for years due to several disputes, including Neymar (29).
Since talks about extending the expiring contract failed, Barça have been trying to find a club that will sign Dembélé right now. For the third most expensive player in football history, who has only played 129 games for Blaugrana since leaving BVB in the summer of 2017 due to injury, in which he scored 54 goals, there is a transfer fee of 20 million euros.
12 transfers over 100 million euros: the most expensive transfers in history
19 Jadon Sancho – BVB to Man United – 20/21 – fee: €85M
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(as of January 6, 2022)
18 Matthijs de Ligt – Ajax to Juventus – 19/20 – fee: €85.5M
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17 Frenkie de Jong – Ajax to Barça – 19/20 – fee: €86M
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16 Harry Maguire – Leicester to Man United – 19/20 – fee: €87M
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15 Neymar – Santos to Barça – 13/14 – fee: €88.2M
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14 Gonzalo Higuaín – Napoli to Juventus – 16/17 – fee: €90M
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13 Cristiano Ronaldo – Man United to Real Madrid – 09/10 – fee: €94M
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12 Gareth Bale – Tottenham to Real Madrid – 13/14 – fee: €101M
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11 Paul Pogba – Juventus to Man United – 16/17 – fee: €105M
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9 Romelu Lukaku – Inter to Chelsea – 21/22 – fee: €115M
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9 Eden Hazard – Chelsea to Real Madrid – 19/20 – fee: €115M
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8 Cristiano Ronaldo – Real Madrid to Juventus – 18/19 – fee: €117M
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7 Jack Grealish – Aston Villa to Man City – 21/22 – fee: €117.5M
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6 Antoine Griezmann – Atlético to Barça – 19/20 – fee: €120M
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5 João Félix – Benfica to Atlético – 19/20 – fee: €127.2M
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4 Philippe Coutinho – Liverpool to Barça – 17/18 – fee: €135M
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3 Ousmane Dembélé – BVB to Barça – 17/18 – fee: €140M
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2 Kylian Mbappé – AS Monaco to PSG – 18/19 – fee: €145M
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1 Neymar – Barça to PSG – 17/18 – fee: €222M
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Barça have tried to start negotiations with Premier League clubs Manchester United, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, but this has not been successful. Therefore, as reported by several media such as the “L’Equipe“Agreed, the Catalans were now looking for contact with PSG, which, according to the Sportzeitung, was not made directly but through an intermediary.
FC Barcelona spoke unsuccessfully to PSG about swapping Dembélé
No transfer fee is said to have been put on the table in the course of the talks, as PSG would first have to sell players for a transfer and are not prepared to invest in the squad in winter. Therefore, it should have been about a possible player exchange between the two clubs. The names of important players fell on both sides. The Barça journalist Gerard Romero reports, for example, that Mauro Icardi (28) was traded as an object of exchange for Dembélé.
But the talks with PSG were reportedly not long-lasting either. “I don’t expect anything for the last day,” PSG coach Mauricio Pochettino said at a press conference on Saturday. “I’m very happy with what I have.” Although FC Barcelona will certainly try to find a solution to Dembélé up to the last second, the probability that the 2018 world champion will still go is “low”, balances the “L’Équipe”.
The attacker is threatened with the stands for six months and Barça with a free departure. Man United and Chelsea are said to be interested in signing next summer, while England is Dembélé’s dream destination.
The most valuable free transfers
35 | Michael Ballac | 2010 | Market value: €20 million
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From Chelsea to Bayer Leverkusen
35 | Edinson Cavani | 2020 | Market value: €20 million
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From Paris Saint Germain to Manchester United
35 | Henrikh Mkhitaryan | 2020 | Market value: €20 million
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From Arsenal to AS Roma
35 | Mario Balotelli | 2019 | Market value: €20 million
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From Olympique Marseille to Brescia Calcio
35 | Eric Garcia | 2021 | Market value: €20 million
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From Manchester City to FC Barcelona
35 | Diego Godin | 2019 | Market value: €20 million
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From Atlético Madrid to Inter Milan
35 | Mario Balotelli | 2018 | Market value: €20 million
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From OGC Nice to Olympique Marseille
35 | Jack Wilshere | 2018 | Market value: €20 million
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From Arsenal to West Ham United
35 | Yevgen Konoplyanka | 2015 | Market value: €20 million
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From Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk to Sevilla FC
35 | Keisuke Honda | 2013 | Market value: €20 million
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From CSKA Moscow to AC Milan
35 | Fernando Llorente | 2013 | Market value: €20 million
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From Athletic Bilabo to Juventus
35 | Luis Figo | 2005 | Market value: €20 million
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From Real Madrid to Inter Milan
35 | Serge Aurier | 2021 | Market value: €20 million
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From Tottenham to Villarreal
22 | Yacine Brahimi | 2019 | Market value: €21 million
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From FC Porto to Al Rayyan Sports Club
22 | Joe Cole | 2010 | Market value: €21 million
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From Chelsea to Liverpool
20 | Hector Herrera | 2019 | Market value: €22 million
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From FC Porto to Atlético Madrid
20 | Samuel Eto’o | 2013 | Market value: €22 million
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From Anzhi Makhachkala to Chelsea
18 | Willian | 2020 | Market value: €22.5 million
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From Chelsea to Arsenal
17 | Thomas Meunier | 2020 | Market value: €24 million
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From Paris Saint Germain to Borussia Dortmund
16 | Other Herrera | 2019 | Market value: €25 million
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From Manchester United to Paris Saint Germain
15 | Georginio Wijnaldum | 2021 | Market value: €30 million
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From Liverpool FC to Paris Saint-Germain
15 | Saint Mina | 2019 | Market value: €30 million
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From Valencia FC to Celta Vigo
15 | Emre Can | 2018 | Market value: €30 million
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From Liverpool FC to Juventus Turin
12 | James Rodriguez | 2020 | Market value: €32 million
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From Real Madrid to Everton
11 I Hakan Calhanoglu I 2021 I Market value: €35 million
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From AC to Inter Milan
11 | Adrien Rabiot | 2019 | Market value: €35 million
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From Paris Saint Germain to Juventus
11 | Michael Ballac | 2006 | Market value: €35 million
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From FC Bayern Munich to FC Chelsea
8 | Aaron Ramsey | 2019 | Market value: €40 million
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From Arsenal FC to Juventus Turin
8 | Leon Goretzka | 2018 | Market value: €40 million
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From FC Schalke 04 to FC Bayern Munich
8 | Stefan de Vrij | 2018 | Market value: €40 million
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From Lazio Rome to Inter Milan
5 I Memphis Depay I 2021 I Market value: €45 million
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From Olympique Lyon to FC Barcelona
4 | Robert Lewandowski | 2014 | Market value: €50 million
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From Borussia Dortmund to Bayern Munich
3 | David Alaba | 2021 | Market value: €55 million
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From Bayern Munich to Real Madrid
2 | Gianluigi Donnarumma | 2021 | Market value: €60 million
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From AC Milan to Paris Saint Germain
1 | Lionel Messi | 2021 | Market value: €80 million
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From FC Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain
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