Since Ousmane Dembélé signed for FC Barcelona, injuries have been a real ordeal for him. In his first season, he was already several months out of the field of play and has subsequently relapsed repeatedly due to muscle problems, the last being the rupture of the proximal tendon that will keep him in the dry dock until August. The situation begins to generate impatience in the club, which considers him transferable.
However, the 'mosquito' is a player with a poster for which teams such as Juventus Turin, Manchester United and Arsenal have already asked. In fact, the 'gunner' team, according to information published by the British medium 'Express', would be willing to bid on Dembélé as long as they obtain a positive report from the player regarding his physical condition. In addition, they would also require another about their adaptation off the pitch, another of their known problems.
It should be remembered that FC Barcelona has planned the arrivals of Neymar and Lautaro Martínez, in addition to having Leo Messi, Luis Suárez, Antoine Griezmann, Ansu Fati and possibly Francisco Trincao up front. In these circumstances, the Catalan club is totally open to listen to offers for Dembélé and would have priced the French winger at a price of around 60 million euros.
This amount is the minimum for which Barça would agree to sell to the Gallic winger. The board headed by Josep Maria Bartomeu needs to minimize losses and obtain a significant sales figure to balance its balance sheets, but it cannot afford more losses. The club would consider that 60 million are those that remain to be amortized by Dembélé and everything that falls below that price would mean losing money.
In the event that no one reaches that amount, FC Barcelona still has another letter to 'place' Dembélé, and that is to put him in some of the footballer exchange operations that Bartomeu assured would take place. As we have announced, the club plans important arrivals and, since there is no money to carry them all out, putting footballers like the Frenchman, Philippe Coutinho or Ivan Rakitic in a 'change of cards' is seen with good eyes.
Your sale is not life or death
Barça will not sell to sell and, if 60 'kilos' do not arrive or the option of an exchange is blurred, Dembélé will enter into Quique Setién's sports plans. The quality of the 'mosquito' is beyond doubt for the club, so giving it another year of margin for it to explode does not pose any problem for planning.