Dembele moves out of Barcelona home to join PSG
FT Desk
- Updated: 23 May 2023 08:55 CDT
- 3 min read
Ousmane Dembele has informed his coaches at Barcelona that he is leaving the club, with the French winger to sign for PSG on a Bosman transfer.
That is according to AS, which reports on Thursday that Dembele has definitively rejected Barcelona’s final offer of a new contract.
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Dembele has already began to pack his valuables for his move to Paris and the Barcelona house that he lives in has been put up for rent again.
The 25-year-old’s contract at Camp Nou expires on June 30.
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Barcelona president Joan Laporta had been very keen for the winger to pen a new deal.
However, negotiations collapsed at the start of 2022 as Dembele was unhappy about the club offering him a paycut while spending €55 million plus €10m in add-ons for new buy Ferran Torres.
Barcelona, meanwhile, complained that Dembele was asking for too much money, with reports that he demanded €240m in order to sign a new contract at Barcelona.
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The relationship between Dembele and Barcelona then deteriorated, with the club trying to push him into either signing a new contract or leaving in January.
In the end, Dembele stayed put and he reintegrated into the team brilliantly over the last few months of the season, linking up superbly with January signing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Dembele’s entourage reopened contract talks with Barcelona in April, with the club hoping he would stay at the club.
However, Barca also refused to raise their offer and meet Dembele’s salary demands.
This refusal to increase the money on offer has proved fatal with Dembele accepting a much better contract at PSG.
Dembele joined Barcelona in 2017 from Borussia Dortmund in a €105 million deal but has struggled for fitness during much of his time at Camp Nou.
He has scored 32 goals in 150 games for the club and is now set to line up with France teammate Kylian Mbappe in Paris.
