When it seemed that the Dembélé soap opera had ended and that the French player was going to Chelsea, the situation has taken a 180-degree turn that could end with the striker renewing with Barça, a club with which he has a contractual relationship until the next 30 of June.
And it is that everything indicated that ‘El mosquito’ would pack his bags after the last culé offer was presented to him. The silence was interpreted in the management leadership as a ‘no’, especially when last December his agent, the controversial Moussa Sissoko, demanded to continue a payroll of 30 million per year and 45 ‘kilos’ in signing bonus: 15 for the representative and 30 for the battering ram.
This proposal did not sit well with the Blaugrana entity, especially when it was public and notorious that the club’s coffers were seriously affected and, in fact, the players had been asked to lower their respective chips.
Thus, he was punished without playing, thus seeking to pressure him to renew, since his contract expired in six months and under no circumstances did President Joan Laporta want Dembélé to leave for free. Offers were not lacking in the winter market, which would have been an economic balm for the club (for the amount obtained with the transfer and for the token that would be saved), but the footballer systematically refused to leave Barcelona, although He also sent messages that said just the opposite. It has been and continues to be a strategy of the player and his agent.
What seems clear is that Chelsea is backing down on the acquisition of the Frenchman. In the first place, because he finds the player’s economic and sporting pretensions (he demands to be the starter) exorbitant and, above all, he does not fully trust his physical condition, given his long history of injuries at the culé club. Despite being only 25 years old, since he landed in Barcelona in 2017, he has spent more than 700 days inactive due to ailments of all kinds that even recurred: muscle tears and problems in the thigh, ankle sprains, knee problems .
“He had a proposal from us for a long time, but it is clear that he has not accepted it because we have not heard from his agent for a long time,” Laporta recently commented, who sent the director of football, Mateo Alemany, to Rabat last April to meet with Sissoko. There was a lot of optimism after the match because the situation was unraveling, but time has shown that there was no reason for it.
Days after the declaration of the maximum Blaugrana president, in French lands, Dembélé was approached by a journalist in the middle of the street. “Are you staying at Barça?” He asked him. The player replied yes. But there was more because when questioned about Chelsea’s interest, the striker settled it by saying: “I’m fine in Barcelona.”
Interminable
As you can see, there is still a ‘serial soap opera’ for a while, especially because ‘El mosquito’ has not closed anything with any club (PSG was playing hard weeks ago) and he knows that the culé team would have an important role, with a coach , Xavi Hernández, who blindly trusts him and who has not tired of praising him. And all this without the long-awaited economic injection to Barça.
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