The Barça does not think to raise his offer by Ousmane Dembele (24 years) to get him to renew his contract, which ends on June 30. The meeting held yesterday with your agent, Moussa SissokoIt was not good at all according to the interests of the Barça club. The player’s representative asked for a very high salary, in accordance with his assessment of him, in addition to bonuses for games played and for titles.
In this sense, in the club they do not consider it completely lost but they believe that, really, “there’s nothing to do” if the player maintains his current position. In fact, he is almost given up. And all this because from the Barça entity a red line has been marked with the French: you cannot lose the path of salary containment demanded by the situation that the club and football in general are experiencing, hit by the pandemic. Barça is trying to implement a wage containment policy and that collides head-on with requests for Moussa Sissoko.
Thus, the club intends to give one last chance to Dembele, but always making it clear that you do not intend to move from your current proposal. In this sense, the club is evaluating what to do if the Frenchman does not reconsider and adapt to the economic parameters of the club.
That comes out in January, complicated mission
There is the option of trying to place him on the winter market, but the club admits that it is complicated because charging a transfer bonus involves arriving free on June 30. Therefore, the normal thing is that the player refuses outright to leave in January to wait for June.
Then there is another tricky issue: if it remains until the summer without renewing, what to do with it at a sporting level. Among other things because it can be useful for the team and for Xavi Hernández, but he will also have a part of the fans against him for not renewing that he can take it with him in every game at the Camp Nou.