Barça has had enough of Ousmane Dembélé that they are seriously considering leaving him in the stands in the second part of the season. As reported TV3, Joan Laporta and Mateu Alemany will talk with Xavi about the suitability of ostracizing the French for the remainder of the year; or at least look for a way out to get a handful of euros to help the club’s ailing economy due to the player’s refusal to extend his contract with the Barça club.
That is the scenario that, at least, the club has been in charge of filtering, fed up with its strange requests, histrionic in a player who, after costing 140 million euros, has not given even four good times in a row with Barça. As reported TV3, Moussa Sissoko, demands 45 million euros of transfer bonus, distributed in 15 million for him and 30 for the footballer. That, just for renewing after having accumulated more than 100 low games with Barça in his four and a half seasons at culé. The excesses don’t stop there. TV3 reported that the world champion (almost without playing) in 2018 has asked for 30 million euros per season. In this situation, and verifying that renewal is impossible (in Italy they see a possible agreement with Juventus behind them), Barça is willing to break the deck. Of course, the club knows that it has the complicity of the fans, who do not understand how a footballer to whom the club has given all the care without him having delivered anything, is capable of pressing with draconian conditions.
But the one who is in question in this matter is Xavi, who said that he did not contemplate seeing Dembélé in the stands and, in fact, discarded the idea, and even spoke of the stain it would pose for the institution. “If a player has a contract, he must play. We are going to be positive and think that he will renew. I prefer to think about that. If he has a contract, he has to play. Also in the image of the club itself. I do not contemplate that option. Players with a contract have to play”.