Dembélé stays to win the League and the Champions League, by Xavier Bosch

It was time. At last an ambitious Barça player appears who says things by his name. It’s enough to cry, to settle into the “this is what it is”, to think that qualifying for the Champions League is a success and that finishing second in the League is a feat. renew Ousmane Dembele and, knowing the squad that will remain for the 2022-23 season, he says that next year he has to go for the League and for the Champions League. And he repeats, up to three times in one minute, that his dream is to win the European Cup with Barça. Why not?

The year of post-traumatic stress syndrome, due to Messi’s departure, is over. Xavi starts the season from scratch, in the second round 45 points have already been achieved (champion figures), three players have been signed (kessie, Christensen y Raphinha) and there are still four more to come: a central defender, two full-backs and the long-awaited Lewandowski, the best scorer in Europe. Let’s say that Barça, hand in hand with Pini Zahavimanages to hire the Polish forward… See how the six doubled positions of the forward would look: on the right Raphinha o Dembele’sIn the center Lewandowski o Aubameyangto the left Ansu Fati o Ferran Torres. Memphis Depay, who was the burning nail of last season, would go from essential to seventh striker. Say, now, what other European forward has the three positions so well doubled and compensated. Rodrygo, Benzema y vinicius They are great, but what about the substitutes? Messi, Mbappe y Neymar they scare, but what about his replacement? Thank you Ousmane for staying, for saying things by name and for inviting us to dream