BARCELONA, 20 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The football director of FC Barcelona, Mateu Alemany, assured this Thursday that Ousmane Dembélé has to leave the club “as soon as possible”, in this winter market, once the entity understands, after five months of negotiations for a renewal that It has not happened, that the French want to leave.
“We are 11 days away from the closing of the market and we understand that after all this process, the player has decided not to continue and what we want are players who are committed to Barça and both for their own good and for the club, they have to leave as soon as possible. soon as possible,” he assured in statements to the club’s media.
In addition, he supports Xavi’s decision to set him aside and not call him up for Thursday’s Copa del Rey match in Bilbao. “I think the coach’s technical decision is consistent with the club’s position and the sequence of events, and that he is not called up is the logical consequence of a negotiation that has ended the player’s clear desire not to continue,” he argued.
“The reality is that with Ousmane we began negotiations with his agents five months ago, during this time there has been continuous communication in which the club’s position has been to want him to continue,” explained the Blaugrana football director.
In this sense, he assured that Dembélé and his agents have been made “different offers”. “We have been very on top of this issue, we have done enough for the player to consider what he has to do with his future,” he said.