Ousmane Dembélé is the key to moving the European market. As this newspaper could know, the French end of Barcelona is very close to closing his transfer to Manchester United with which Barça would have the financial muscle to face the operation of Memphis Depay. The Olympique de Lyon striker has been one of Koeman's priority targets since he sat on the Camp Nou bench.
According to the information received, Barça would accept an offer between 50 or 60 million euros for the French winger at the same time that the salary mass of the team would drop significantly.
Part of what Barcelona would enter for the transfer of Dembélé would be used to sign Depay. Manchester United already made an offer for Dembélé a season ago, but the Frenchman's injuries paralyzed the operation.
Dembélé arrived at Barcelona three seasons ago from Borussia Dortmund after Neymar left for Paris Saint-Germain to change of 130 million euros plus eight in variables.
In this time, the French winger has been massacred for injuries. Since he arrived, he has ruptured his biceps femoris tendon twice and since his last tear he has been out for 191 days. In three years he has suffered seven muscle injuries.
Barcelona with the arrival of Trincao and the commitment to Griezmann was in the position that He had plenty of attacking players on the wing as he sought to reduce the cost of the squad at all costs. If the departure of Dembélé, one of the highest figures of the squad, takes place, the Blaugrana team had enough financial muscle to face the signing of Depay while reducing the part of the budget that it allocates to sports salios, which should be lowered by 160 million euros.