Barcelona To Offer New Deal To Manchester United, Liverpool’s $125M Target Striker: Report

FC Barcelona are reportedly set to supply a contract extension to Ousmane Dembele, who has additionally been linked with Manchester United.

Barcelona signed Dembele in the summertime of 2017 at a hefty switch price of $125 million from Borussia Dortmund. Since Dembele took as many as 4 seasons to lastly reside as much as that price ticket, the participant has realized that he should repay the membership for his or her persistence and for relying on him, Spanish publication Mundo Deportivo reported.

Dembele’s first three seasons at Camp Nou have been both hit by poor kind or accidents. Within the 2019-20 marketing campaign, the Frenchman managed to make simply 9 appearances in mixture for Barcelona. After struggling to settle in at Barcelona, Dembele had been closely linked with a transfer to Premier League final summer time. Manchester United and Liverpool FC have been keen on signing the 23-year-old striker forward of the present season. 

In reality, Manchester United have been near signing Dembele as a back-up choice for Jadon Sancho. Nonetheless, it was reported that Dembele had rejected a transfer to Previous Trafford on the final second and that thereby prevented Barcelona from signing their 2020 summer time goal Memphis Depay.

Forward of the 2021 summer time switch window, even Serie A champions Juventus have been keen on signing Dembele from Barcelona because the Turin membership is trying to bolster its aspect for the brand new marketing campaign, based on the soccer web site juvefc.com.

Nonetheless, Dembele has lastly achieved an improved stage of steady health as he has made 34 appearances for the membership in 2020-21, throughout all competitions. The 23-year-old Dembele, who clocked his one hundredth recreation for Barcelona final month in opposition to Deportivo Alaves in La Liga, is in favor of each membership’s supervisor Ronald Koeman and new president Joan Laporta.

Together with Antoine Griezmann, Koeman has given Dembele a variety of duty and significance on the high of Barcelona’s assault. Barcelona are conscious that Dembele is a kind of gamers with nice potential market amongst their present gamers and the playmaker’s future with the Catalans may even rely on the phrases he’ll be supplied by the La Liga giants within the new deal, the Mundo Deportivo report additional revealed.

Earlier than profitable the latest presidential elections at Barcelona, Laporta had heaped reward on Dembele, saying the membership should hold the younger striker for a few years.

“I am an enormous fan of Ousmane Dembele. He’s in a spectacular second of kind and mentally he’s robust, he has been settling down. He’s a kind of gamers for whom you must attempt to hold Barça for a few years. I at all times spoke out in favor of Ousmane. You must care for nice gamers,” Laporta had stated in an interview.

Ousmane Dembele (L) of Barcelona competes for the ball with Axel Witsel of Borussia Dortmund Picture: Getty Photographs | Pablo Morano

In 34 aggressive appearances this season for Barcelona, Dembele has netted eight objectives and 4 assists.