The Barça wanted to sell to Dembélé to the City in summer

Once he recovers from the elongation in his left thigh, the Frenchman Ousmane Dembele aims to be one of the important players for Xavi Hernandez after the arrival of the coach to the Camp Nou bench and this was evident in the first contact between the player and the coach at the Ciutat Esportiva, where they showed good harmony.

However, the story could have been very different if last summer Dembele would have left Barça, a situation that was on the table as revealed by ‘TV3’. The aforementioned information indicated that the Barça would have offered the transfer of Dembele al Manchester City before the closing of the summer market to solve the delicate financial situation that the entity is going through, as it did with the exit of Antoine Griezmann al Atlético de Madrid, but the English, also conditioned by the financial ‘fair play’, did not accept the proposal that transferred them personally Mateu Alemany, director of football of the Barcelona club.

After the first refusal, the City raised an exchange of players to get the incorporation of Dembele and the names of the culé came out Ronald araujo and the ‘citizens’ Aymeric Laporte and Raheem Sterling, who is still on the list of future Barça players. However, the second offer did not finish convincing in the Camp Nou offices and then the barter between Dembele and Sterling, but the English footballer did not want to leave the Manchester City and it did not come to fruition.

Dembele faces its fifth season in the Barça and now, as long as the injuries respect him, he will have the opportunity to show all his talent under the command of Xavi.

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