{"id":614237,"date":"2022-06-25T11:12:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614237"},"modified":"2022-06-25T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:12:19","slug":"ousmane-dembele-chelsea-barcelona-move-stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/25\/ousmane-dembele-chelsea-barcelona-move-stuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea in Complicated Situation for Lucrative Free Agent Touted as Thomas Tuchel\u2019s Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/24\/chelsea-transfer-budget-new-owners\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> are struggling to find a solution for the prospect of signing Ousmane Dembele as a free agent next season, claims <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Plettigoal\/status\/1540578170117709824?s=20&amp;t=zwed8sLbczY3ZyFtWVIzLw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sky Sports Germany<\/a>. The Blues are eager to improve their forward line after <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/21\/romelu-lukaku-inter-milan-contract-clauses\/\" target=\"_self\">loaning Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan<\/a> for the upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea in Complicated Situation With Ousmane Dembele<\/h2>\n<h3>Dembele Remains Thomas Tuchel\u2019s Priority Target<\/h3>\n<p>The Blues are entangled in a complicated state with their pursuit of signing Dembele despite <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/14\/chelsea-are-closing-in-on-winger\/\" target=\"_self\">being close to signing him recently<\/a>. Interestingly, Dembele is eager to join Chelsea in the summer but is not willing to bring down his high wage demands either.<\/p>\n<p>There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a solution in sight for this entire deal. Barcelona manager Xavi is still hoping to be able to keep Dembele in his squad for next season and wants him to stay and sign a new contract with his club.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/24\/todd-boehly-new-reece-james-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Looking to Reward Reece James With New Contract<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The French winger is still Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s priority for the summer after impressing for Barcelona last season. Indeed, Dembele registered 13 assists in the previous campaign &#8211; the joint-third highest for any player in Europe. He had 12 assists in La Liga and created more goals than any other player in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s interest in Ousmane Dembele is so strong that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chelsea?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Chelsea<\/a> are willing to offer him \u20ac8M-a-year to join the club. Tuchel&#8217;s side are pressing Dembele to accept their offer.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mundodeportivo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@mundodeportivo<\/a> ] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Te2bt7srLq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Te2bt7srLq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ines Star (@NestaInes1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NestaInes1\/status\/1540704390146818048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Past History With Tuchel<\/h3>\n<p>Dembele has close connections with the Chelsea manager as they both worked together at Borussia Dortmund. In his one and only season with the Bundesliga club, Dembele thrived in Tuchel&#8217;s system in the 2016\/17 campaign, scoring ten goals and registering 21 assists in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>That amazing season sparked interest from a lot of major clubs before Barcelona were able to sign him for over \u20ac105 million as a replacement for Neymar. Dembele has since gained a lot of praise from Tuchel, who once referred to him as &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barcatimes\/status\/1398556057769762820?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the craziest talents<\/a>&#8216; he has ever seen or been able to manage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/18\/every-premier-league-transfer-completed-in-summer-2022\/\" target=\"_self\">Every Premier League Transfer Completed in Summer 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is why the German manager is so eager to reunite with the Dembele and sign him as a free agent next month. But because of the 25-year-old&#8217;s major wage demands, the deal is not being able to go through as smoothly as it should have.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are keeping alternatives in mind just in case it doesn&#8217;t happen. They are <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/18\/chelsea-are-interested-in-attacking-star\/\" target=\"_self\">eyeing a move to sign Raheem Sterling<\/a> from Manchester City as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-10948659\/Senior-Chelsea-stars-want-Thomas-Tuchel-sign-50m-Everton-forward-Richarlison.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richarlison<\/a> from Everton. With new co-owner Todd Boehly <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/20\/chelsea-bruce-buck-todd-boehly\/\" target=\"_self\">assuming the transfer negotiation duties<\/a>, it remains to be seen whether he can make Dembele the first signing of his era at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are struggling to find a solution for the prospect of signing Ousmane Dembele as a free agent next season, claims Sky Sports Germany. The Blues are eager to improve their forward line after loaning Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan for the upcoming campaign. Chelsea in Complicated Situation With Ousmane Dembele Dembele Remains Thomas Tuchel\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":614253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,1365,11,6,7188],"tags":[1407,1359],"class_list":["post-614237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-barcelona","category-chelsea","category-la-liga","category-rumours","tag-chelsea-transfers","tag-ousmane-dembele"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614237","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\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}