Dembélé, sprint final

After many bumps, which even included an incomprehensible veto the player who mortgaged Barça’s future in the Cup in Bilbao, the case of the renewal of Dembélé lives its last chapters these days. The player’s agent, Moussa Sissoko, could meet with Mateu Alemany before the end of the week in which, this time yes, it will be the definitive appointment to know if Dembélé extends his contract or if, definitively, he ends his stage as a Barcelona player.

Barça asked Dembélé for time to ensure qualification for the Champions League and thus have a certain financial cushion to improve their financial proposal (70 million guaranteed). Alemany designs imaginative formulas to convince the player. The executive, instigator of the club’s decision to remove the Frenchman when he refused to renew in January, is commissioned to renew it by Xavi. The coach is convinced that despite not having good decision-making in many moments, Dembélé produces a lot for Barcelona’s game and has speed, one on one and imbalance, something difficult to find in the market. “He has already helped us and he will help us if he continues,” he said Monday. The technician has shown his confidence with facts. The other day, at Villamarín, he even sat down Aubameyang to make room for him in eleven. Sissoko, meanwhile, has been responding to Barça’s attempts with other proposals in the search to reach a common point.

For months, Barça was convinced that Dembélé had signed a contract with PSG, but a month and a half after the expiration of the contract with the Barça club, Sissoko keeps Barça’s way open. Of course, this time the matter is not going to take longer and, possibly, this week the final decision will arrive.