Ousmane Dembélé, the return.
Already … Discarded during the winter transfer window when his future was still unclear, the 25-year-old tricolor international should be part of the group selected by Xavi Hernandez to face Atlético Madrid, Sunday (4:15 p.m.), during the 23rd day of the Spanish championship, at Camp Nou.
If so, the public reaction to him promises to be spicy...
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President Laporta had already indicated that the choice to reinstate the player would depend on his coach.
According to
AS
, said Xavi has finished convincing his management.
“
If there is no radical reversal in the next few hours, Dembélé will be summoned
” to challenge the Colchoneros, can we read on the website of the Madrid sports newspaper.
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Free at the end of the season, Dembélé refuses to extend his contract. If the situation were to continue, he could therefore leave free next July, he who landed at Camp Nou in 2017 for € 105 million excluding bonuses. World champion with the Blues in 2018 and international 27 times (4 goals), the former Dortmund player only played 11 matches in Barcelona colors in 2021-22 (1 goal) and 129 in total (31 goals ). His name has been mentioned everywhere this winter, from Paris to Chelsea, via Man. United.
Dembélé will in any case not be too much for a sick and modest Barça fifth in the La Liga standings, just behind … Atlético, and who was transferred to the Europa League after finishing third in his group in C1.
And this even if the Catalan club was active in the transfer window, attracting Ferran Torres, Adama Traoré and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, ex-teammate of Dembélé in Dortmund.