LIVE - The transfer window: the Dembélé case at Barça discussed next week

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Discarded from the FC Barcelona group this Thursday for the match against Athletic Bilbao on behalf of the knockout stages of the King's Cup, the French international was ordered to leave Catalonia "

" by Mateu Alemany , the Barcelona executive director.

However, according to the latest information revealed by

, Moussa Sissoko is expected to meet Barcelona leaders early next week to discuss the situation of his protege. Despite the showdown between the two parties, the representative of the versatile striker would not consider the negotiations as broken and would be hopeful of finding common ground. As a reminder, Ousmane Dembélé, entering his last year of contract, has still not extended with the Blaugrana. If no agreement is reached in the next few days, the latter should prefer to transfer him by the end of January in order to recover a good sum of money rather than taking the risk of seeing him go free in the summer. next. Aged 24, the ex-Rennes had joined FC Barcelona in the summer of 2017 from Borussia Dortmund for an amount, excluding bonuses,of €140 million.

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