Dembélé and Kessié were the great absences of Barça in the Joan Gamper Trophy, in which the Blaugrana team beat Tottenham (4-2). The Ivorian who arrived free last year will sign with Al-Ahli Saudi for three years, leaving 15 million in the Blaugrana coffers. Dembélé obtained the club’s permission to head to Paris, as confirmed by Barça’s director of football, Mateu Alemany.
“He asked to go out. It is your decision. We are in the process of closing it. He is no longer in Barça dynamics, he has already gone to Paris. It has not been completely closed because a series of documents need to be signed. We will communicate the amount [of the sale to PSG] when it closes. We hope it will be resolved as soon as possible”, said the senior manager into the TV3 microphone.
With the departure of Dembélé, according to Alemany, “we close another folder and move forward with players who want to be with us”, he launched a puja at the French, for his decision to go to PSG.
Alemany commented that the club’s priority now is not the hiring of Neymar – “it’s a journalistic matter,” he said – or any other addition to the squad, but “resolving departures and registrations; we are in the process of resolving them, I am optimistic and I believe that we will be able to register all our players in the shortest possible time”.
