The double barter of the Barça-City that did not give in summer

The last market veraniego of signings was not the best for the Barça. The unsustainable economic situation of the Catalan square forced to Joan Laporta to give jumps of a side to another to look for signings while it had to give him gone out to Messi.

Although they were Antoine Griezmann and Messi, those who went out did the Athletic of Madrid and to the PSG. The true, is that those that more were "sacrificed" so that the Barcelona reached the balance of the Fair Play Financial were a lot of proposals and operations that received in summer but that finished refusing.

One of these operations refused was given to know in the program Esport3, of Catalonia Irradiate, "the Barça wanted to send to Ousmane Dembélé to the Manchester City the past summer", revealed in said half. Although the French attacker is one of the bets of present and future more important of the club, also is one of the footballers with the highest wages of the actuality. Finally, the 'no' of a third part finished closing the operation.

When seeming, and of agreement to the referred information, knowing that Pep Guardiola follows very closely to the footballer of the Barcelona, the director of football of the group blaugrana Mateu Alemany was to Manchester to negotiate the possible signing of Dembélé by the "citizens". The option to pay by the traspaso of the extreme Frenchman was descartada because of the problems with the Fair Play financial that experiences the English group in the actuality, by what the Barça proposed an exchange of players.

By part of the Catalan Ronald Araújo and Ousmane Dembélé would do the cases course to Manchester whereas to Barcelona would arrive Aymeric Laporte and Raheem Sterling. The double exchange finished being descartado, City and Barça agreed only exchange to Dembelé by Sterling, but the negotiations did not prosper and, in this moment, Sterling refused the offer.

Renewal in sight?

With the arrival of Xavi Hernández the situation of Dembélé seems to have changed weigh that, after several seasons lastradas by injuries have prevented him to Dembélé show all the potential when it arrived to the Camp Nou from the Borussia Dortmund. By his part, Xavi seems to have plans for the French.

In fact, it is such the decision of Xavi in this regard that in front of the question concerning the future of Dembélé in one of his first appearances like trainer "demanded" to Laporta the continuity of the forward: "The renewal is innegociable right now. Dembélé In his position, very worked, can be the best of the world". That's why from the noble plant of the Camp Nou have put to work to 100%