Now or never: Decisive meeting to define Dembélé's future at Barça

Mateu Alemany, sportive director of the FC Barcelona and Moussa Sisoko, representative of Ousmane Dembélé, have foreseen to face between this Monday 24 and the Tuesday 25 January the situation of the French extreme in the Camp Nou: out of the announcements of the team of Xavi Hernández because of his no renewal with the Barcelona club, while his agreement expires the next 30 June.

Moussa Sisoko Lands in Barcelona in the start of this week with the aim to converse with his represented, an Ousmane Dembélé very upset by the position that has adopted the Barça to exclude him of the announcements, and to go back to put on the table of the entity culé a contraoferta of renewal that would happen because from the club decide to go up his last economic offer.

Dembélé Attended this Monday to the Sportive City Joan Gamper. Xavi decided to summon in the morning of this Monday a training postpartido for which played in front of the Alavés and a complete session for the rest of the staff. The extreme Frenchman unlike the Sunday, yes has presented in the mentioned field to fulfil with his training.

From the perspective of the footballer and his surroundings, keep the idea that they have not commissioned to close the negotiations, but it was the own Barça the one who decided to resolve the question, and show surprised by the paper that has adopted in the last days the technical Xavi Hernández, the one who decided for remitting to the strategy of the club. In spite of everything, representative and player keep that his wish is to follow with the conversations because they ensure that the intention of Dembélé is to renew by the Barça.

Positions distanciadas in spite of the 'wish of agreement'

From the Barcelona insist in that they keep his wish that Ousmane prorrogue his agreement, that finalises in summer, and that his offer follows on the table so that they sign it the footballer and his representative. Likewise they leave clear that the quantities and the conditions offered are the best that can tend him to the international French to day of today.

Therefore, everything indicates that both parts wish apurar the week of negotiations that offers them the wintry market until 31 January, although ones and other enrocados in his positions. A situation that by the moment leaves to Dembélé out of the announcements of Xavi Hernández, what represents a stage complicated after the French did not attend to the preparatory session of the Sunday, alleging a "gastric indisposition".