You pay him tens of millions just to see him missing most of the season due to countless injuries. Then, amid a severe financial crisis, you’re forced to nurture him like he’s the world wonder itself, saying ‘he’s better than Mbappe’. Of course, this ludicrous pep-talk serves to warm his heart ahead of contract-extension talks because you’re aware you need to cut his sky-rocket salary in order to provide the club with day-to-day survival.In Laporta’s world of unicorns and fairies Dembele is better than MbappeAnd what he does after this over-the-top flattery? He blackmails his club, demanding his salary to stay the same, or he’ll start transfer talks with other slots as soon as January 1.According to several relevant sources, Ousmane Dembele could leave Barcelona promptly after contract extension talks with the club collapsed.🚨 Info : Ousmane Dembélé 🇫🇷 ne prolongera à #Barcelone, comme l’a rapporté @gerardromero.• Le #PSG, #Chelsea, Manchester United, le #Bayern, #Newcastle ont tous contacté son agent Moussa Sissoko 🇫🇷.• Sissoko 🇫🇷 a réclamé au Barça 40M€ de salaire bruts et 40M€ de prime. pic.twitter.com/50NXUziPbC— Santi Aouna (@Santi_J_FM) December 29, 2021 Dembele’s current contract ends after this campaign, and he is free to negotiate a pre-contract with other clubs starting on January 1.The hope had been for Barcelona to reach an agreement with the French winger before that date, but this week’s talks crumbled when Dembele baulked at the wage cut the Blaugrana demanded.Both his wages and a bonus for his agent Moussa Sissoko are points of contention.THU: 23.15: (1.40) MANCHESTER UNITED (4.90) BURNLEY (9.00)Sissoko apparently thinks – or at least doesn’t laugh while speaking of it – that Dembele has offers from PSG, Manchester United, Bayern Munich and Newcastle and that he’s unwilling to make a new deal with the Blaugrana unless they give him €40m gross salary and another €40m bonus.A series of bad transfer choices – Barcelona have wasted 415 million USD on strikersThe news of Dembele’s failed talks with Barca resulted in many commentaries, but maybe the most interesting was the one from Mickael Silvestre. A former Manchester United and French defender recalled his trauma with Dembele a few years ago, when he was a sporting director of the French Ligue 1 side Rennes. He forced Rennes to accept his departure to Dortmund: “He texted me from the airport with a boarding pass saying he was tired of football and was going to Senegal with his grandmother, ” explained Silvestre.
