Ousmane Dembélé, during a match with the Barça the last season

It WAS NEAR OF OLD TRAFFORD

The reason why Dembélé would have refused to go to Manchester United

Published:7/10/2020 - 21:48h

Updated:8/10/2020 - 13:22h

Ousmane Dembélé Did not want to leave to the Manchester United and frustrated the plans of the FC Barcelona with Memphis Depay. In England desvelan why

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From his arrival, Ronald Koeman insisted in the arrival of a leading centre for paliar the goodbye of Luis Suárez and put on the table his priority: Memphis Depay. The attacker of the Olympique of Lyon, with which the technician coincided in the selection of the Low Countries, finalised agreement in 2021 and turned into the favourite option, although the FC Barcelona could not ficharlo if before it did not free mass salarial to do him hollow.

The plan of the Barcelona club was to give exit to the player that Ronald Koeman considered more prescindible: Ousmane Dembélé. The French extreme hardly has had prominence in this start of LaLiga Santander -only has played 20 minutes against the Villarreal- and the interest of the Manchester United appeared like a road that convinced to the FC Barcelona to kill two birds of a shot: obtain economic profit and do him place to Memphis Depay to be able to pay him the index card.

Dembélé Already knows to mark to English teams

This Wednesday, the 'Daily Mail' has taken out to the light some informations that describe the course of the operation, that already was totally encarrilada. The English media desvela that the Manchester United and the FC Barcelona had pactado by Ousmane Dembélé a cession remunerada -the same 'modus operandi' that the one of Philippe Coutinho to the Bayern of Munich- with the English team doing charge of the whole of the index card and obtaining an option of purchase no compulsory to final of course.

The FC Barcelona had given the seen well to the operation but put a condition to finish to close it: that Ousmane Dembélé renewed his agreement until 2023 -his current links with the Barcelona wins in 2022- to avoid of this form that when it finalised his cession to the Manchester United was missing less than a year to remain free, something that had gone down a lot his value of market of face to a possible sale.

Always according to the media quoted previously, Ousmane Dembélé denied to accept the conditions that proposed him the FC Barcelona and thus it shattered the operation to try convince to Ronald Koeman of his level. Nevertheless, the own 'Daily Mail' ensures that the Manchester United has not forgotten of the French extreme and that in winter will try again his contracting.

Real danger with Ousmane Dembélé

The FC Barcelona has to begin to think in the future of Ousmane Dembélé, that finishes his agreement with the Catalan entity in less than two years. In fact, Catalonia Ràdio desveló that the French plans to force his exit next summer to an affordable price or, what is worse still, leave free in summer of 2022 after remaining free. Nevertheless, the club that purportedly attracts to the 'mosquito' is the Juventus of Turín​.

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