Ousmane Dembele asked Barça for over 100m to renew

Ousmane Dembele will play for PSG next season. He will do so after rejecting Barça's renewal offer and accepting the five-year contract offered to him by the French club.

Sources close to president Joan Laporta define everything that has happened in the last few days as "deception by the player and his agent". This is clear to them after the meetings they had in Dallas with the player. The president and the coach, Xavi Hernandez, took part in one of them. In another, the director of football, Mateu Alemany. They all wanted to make it clear to him that he was valued at the club and that he was one of the mainstays to try to win the Champions League and it was made clear that in no case had he been offered to another club. 

The same sources explain that the counter-offer that Moussa Sissoko made to the club to renew his contract was "insulting". The club offered him a renewal until 2028 with a significant increase in his salary. Dembele was asking for well over 100 million euros for the same five seasons. "An unaffordable sum. If any of his teammates get to see it...", they point out from the club.

In the club they are very upset by "the ingratitude" shown by the player. Xavi feels disappointed with Dembele after how much he had bet on the player and also president Laporta, who said at the time that the French winger was better than Mbappe and that it was important for him to sign his last contract last summer despite everything that had happened between the club and his agent and the performance that the player had produced since his arrival in 2017.