Sunday's game against Villarreal (10 pm) could be Ousmane Dembélé's last with Barça. The club, which presented him with a last offer a month ago during the visit of his agent, Moussa Sissoko, hopes to have an answer at a meeting to be held next week, as reported by this newspaper.
There is a certain pessimism within the club with the renewal of the Frenchman who has other more succulent offers on the table- "We have presented an offer making an economic effort. We know that he has more succulent economic proposals than ours. They have taken a margin to respond to us at the end of the season. If it can't be, then we'll look for an alternative", warned the president Joan Laporta in an interview with the Catalunya Ràdio program 'Tot Costa'.
However, the footballer's environment rules out that the proposed offer is the definitive one. They point out that everything is still active with Barça and they recognize that the Frenchman has more offers and is financially superior. The last candidate to appear on the scene has been Bayern Munich, coinciding with the culé's interest in Robert Lewandowski. According to 'Bild', he offers him a four-year contract at 18 million euros per season. Without forgetting that PSG have also been interested in the Frenchman for months in case Mbappé ends up going to Real Madrid or to cover Di María's loss.
Where Dembélé will surely not be is in the Nations League matches that France will play from June 3. The French coach Didier Deschamps announced the call this Thursday and assured that the absence of the Barcelona winger is due "to excess competition" and the fact that France plays with lanes, a position that Dembélé is less accustomed to covering. "He is used to playing on the wing, on the left and on the right, and in our current system, as a winger, it is not his position. To call him up, it would be necessary to remove another who is also performing well," said the coach.
The list does not include the Madrid player Eduardo Camavinga, who had sounded to integrate the concentration of the "bleus", key for which the list will make up for the World Cup in Qatar, Paul Pogba, who is experiencing physical problems and whose position will be occupied by Boubacar Kamara from Marseille, or Olivier Giourd, the French top scorer in active play, who replaced Benzema on the last list but does not seem to be a priority for Deschamps. The list does include Real Madrid player Karim Benzema, Athletic player Antoine Griezmann and Sevilla player Jules Koundé.
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