Barcelona has accelerated the departure of Dembélé to be able to make cash and lighten the team’s salary bill and as La Vanguardia learned, it will not be in the Joan Gamper Trophy that the Blaugrana team will play this afternoon in Montjuïc against Tottenham.
Five days after the start of the League, the club has pending the registrations of seven footballers. They are the newcomers Oriol Romeu, Gündogan and Iñigo Martínez and the renewed Araújo, Sergi Roberto, Marcos Alonso and Iñaki Peña. Also Balde and Lamine Yamal are in the process of closing their respective renovations and it is necessary to activate the pending outputs.
The exit that is best faced is that of Kessié, with permission from the club not to participate in training. The Ivorian midfielder has already passed a medical examination with Al-Ahli Saudi, a team with which he will sign for three years, leaving 15 million in the Blaugrana coffers.
The Dembélé-Barça-PSG conflict falls on the mandatory transfer clause that Barça agreed to include in the Frenchman’s renewal contract until June 2024. The wording of the same pointed out that if the player notified before July 31, 2023 of that he had a proposal, he could leave by entering 25 million of the 50 that Barça will receive. However, the sports leadership considers that the open negotiations between Dembélé and PSG do not conform to the wording of the clause and will do everything possible to enter the 50 million in full.
The coaching staff will also decide today how to manage the participation in the Gamper of footballers that Xavi does not have. This is the case of Lenglet, a footballer who played last year on loan precisely at Tottenham. The French center-back, with a contract until 2026, has rejected a proposal from Saudi Arabia and is looking for new proposals. Keeping him this year will cost Barcelona 16 million. It does not enter into Xavi’s plans. In fact, he did not play a minute on the tour. Sergiño Dest is in a similar situation, with a contract until 2025. The right-back costs Barça this year 10 million euros. Xavi gave him the opportunity to participate in the American tour but he was not convinced.
