{"id":609469,"date":"2022-01-31T17:32:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T22:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=609469"},"modified":"2022-01-31T17:32:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T22:32:27","slug":"barcelona-forward-stay-despite-european-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/31\/barcelona-forward-stay-despite-european-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Forward to Stay at Nou Camp Despite European Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite interest from some of Europe&#8217;s top clubs, Ousmane Dembele will stay at Barcelona until the end of the season, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1488266712206086145?t=3grdFObCa8Ev_1n8_f3XEA&amp;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to Fabrizio Romano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman, who has refused to commit his long-term future to the Catalan club, will see out his contract at the Nou Camp, which expires in the summer.<\/p>\n<h2>Premier League and Paris Saint-Germain Target to Stay at Barcelona<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 stays at Bar\u00e7a &#8211; he\u2019s never been really close to sign with any club this January. \ud83d\udeab\ud83d\udd35\ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FCB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FCB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0f Man Utd not even interested<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f Chelsea never opened talks<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f Tottenham never been close<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f No interest in Arsenal swap<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f No clubs agreement with PSG<\/p>\n<p>Ousmane stays. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NOsSp4brJ6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/NOsSp4brJ6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1488266712206086145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>European Interest<\/h3>\n<p>Ousmane Dembele has been one of the most talked-about potential transfers of the January transfer window but the 24-year-old will remain in Spain until the summer.<\/p>\n<p>According to Romano, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/31\/manchester-united-alvaro-fernandez-loan\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> haven&#8217;t shown interest in the Frenchman, despite reports, while <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/31\/chelsea-make-late-enquiry-for-ousmane-dembele-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> failed to open talks. Staying in the Premier League, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/31\/double-juventus-signing-as-tottenham-finally-act-on-deadline-day\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham<\/a> had &#8216;never been close&#8217; while there was no interest from the player for an <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/29\/granit-xhaka-stay-at-arsenal\/\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal<\/a> swap.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the forward could have made a return to his homeland but Barcelona and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/23\/how-psg-can-complete-tanguy-ndombele-move\/\" target=\"_self\">PSG<\/a> failed to reach an agreement for a move.<\/p>\n<h3>Contract Issues<\/h3>\n<p>With Dembele out of contract in the summer, it would seem likely that he will depart the Nou Camp at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>This is down to his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/20\/ousmane-dembele-furious-transfer-saga\/\" target=\"_self\">contract dispute<\/a> with the Catalan club. New manager Xavi issued an ultimatum of committing his future to the club or being forced to leave. Now, he has failed to sign a new deal but will remain at the club despite the club&#8217;s best interest to offload him.<\/p>\n<p>Dembele didn&#8217;t want to leave the club, despite interest from over Europe, but he also didn&#8217;t want to be forced into taking a pay cut in a new contract to help Barcelona&#8217;s crippling financial crisis.<\/p>\n<h3>Arrival of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang at Barcelona<\/h3>\n<p>Although the loan move from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/31\/arsenal-forward-miss-out-barcelona-move\/\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal to Barcelona hit a snag<\/a>, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has finally <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/31\/pierre-emerick-aubameyang-barcelona-deal-back-on\/\" target=\"_self\">completed his move to the Nou Camp<\/a>, subject to a medical.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the move, Barcelona have been able to juggle their finances to include the Gambia international and Dembele on the payroll.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"jsv7kCgbTrp2HkBKx-KSSg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1237884515\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'jsv7kCgbTrp2HkBKx-KSSg',sig:'m4qSza8UgUr2OJZrrhr-tHl-QKgNBx3kVHjGyC7bnBY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1237884515',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite interest from some of Europe&#8217;s top clubs, Ousmane Dembele will stay at Barcelona until the end of the season, according to Fabrizio Romano. The Frenchman, who has refused to commit his long-term future to the Catalan club, will see out his contract at the Nou Camp, which expires in the summer. Premier League and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":609474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1365,2,6,7188,28],"tags":[1359],"class_list":["post-609469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona","category-featured","category-la-liga","category-rumours","category-transfers","tag-ousmane-dembele"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}