The rag is consumed between Barça and Ousmane Dembélé.
The Catalan club would no longer support the exorbitant demands of the Frenchman for his extension.
Free next summer, negotiations with the winger have been going on for weeks without success.
An untenable situation for the leaders who have decided to dismiss the former Rennais, starting with the trip to Bilbao this Thursday.
Mateu Alemany, the club's sporting director, announced that he would "
no longer be summoned
".
In a video, the Catalan leader assumed this clear choice and even asked the attacker to pack his bags as soon as possible. “
With Ousmane and his agents, we started negotiations in July. We discussed, talked, for six months, Barça made different offers and tried to find a solution for the player to stay with us. These offers were systematically refused by his agents. Today, January 20, 11 days before the last term of his contract ends, it seems obvious to us that the player does not want to continue at Barça. And he is therefore not engaged with the future project of the club. In this context, it was communicated to his agents and him that we must leave immediately because we want players committed to this project.
»
“
We hope that a transfer will happen before January 31. The sporting consequence, validated by the coach, is that we do not want to have players not involved in the project and who do not want to be at Barça. The fact that he is not summoned is only a consequence of this process. It's not the club that should determine that, it's the coach who did it, but he has our full support, we understand him perfectly and it seems to us a totally coherent decision.
»
At a press conference, Xavi had already lit a first fuse on Wednesday.
“
I was very honest with him, it's not an easy situation, but a decision must be made,
warned the legend of the Catalan club.
Either he extends or he leaves
.
This time the ax fell, the ball is now in the Frenchman's court.
The idyll promised in 2018 with a transfer valued at 180 million euros will therefore never have taken place and ends in the worst possible way.
It remains to be seen now where the Frenchman will bounce back, while Bayern Munich and PSG were interested.
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