{"id":614362,"date":"2022-06-28T06:52:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T10:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614362"},"modified":"2022-06-28T06:52:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T10:52:44","slug":"ousmane-dembele-barcelona-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/28\/ousmane-dembele-barcelona-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Wonderkid&#8217;s Barcelona Future to Be Decided This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The future of Ousmane Dembele at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/27\/robert-lewandowski-barcelona-bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_self\">Barcelona<\/a> is about to be decided, with the Frenchman&#8217;s agent, Moussa Sissoko, set to talk with the club today, according to Fabrizio Romano.<\/p>\n<h2>Ousmane Dembele: Barcelona Future Set to be Decided<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New contacts between Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9&#8217;s agent Moussa Sissoko and Barcelona will take place today. Ousmane wants an improved proposal to extend the contract and stay at Bar\u00e7a, as reported yesterday. \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 <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>Key hours ahead as Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 will decide his future this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1541684573909688321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Demands an Improved Offer<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1541464807320293381\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yesterday&#8217;s meeting<\/a> between Sissoko and the Barcelona board failed to reach any conclusions concerning Dembele&#8217;s future at the club.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old and his agent don&#8217;t want to extend the contract unless an improved offer is made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/27\/ousmane-dembeles-future-still-remains-undecided\/\" target=\"_self\">Ousmane Dembele\u2019s Future Still Remains Undecided<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Barcelona will examine if they have room to do so with financial fair play.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Chelsea have made a contract offer to Ousmane Dembele.<\/p>\n<p>The player will now decide between Chelsea&#8217;s offer or Barcelona&#8217;s reduced salary offer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lequipe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lequipe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VWke1tbj07\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/VWke1tbj07<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Uber Chelsea FC \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f (@UberCheIseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UberCheIseaFC\/status\/1541696560265928704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>A Career That Stagnated<\/h3>\n<p>Ousmane Dembele burst on to the scene at Rennes.\u00a0 Sporting Director Mika\u00ebl Silvestre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paris-normandie.fr\/art\/breves\/sport-en-direct\/forme-a-l-alm-evreux-ousmane-dembele-en-passe-de-rejoindre-barcelone-pour-150-m-LO10695097\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made comparisons<\/a> between Dembele and Cristiano Ronaldo, who he had seen arrive at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/27\/arsenal-increase-offer-for-lisandro-martinez\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> at a similar age.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman&#8217;s success prompted Borussia Dortmund to sign him, a club world-renowned for making young talent prosper.<\/p>\n<p>This ended up being yet another such success story, as Dembele won the Bundesliga&#8217;s Rookie of the Season award and a spot in the league&#8217;s Team of the Season in 2017 after recently celebrating his 20th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona signed the Frenchman in August of the same year. Dembele has had some good moments with the club, like when he scored the decisive goal against Sevilla in the Spanish Super Cup, or his remarkable solo goal against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/28\/tottenham-hotspur-everton-richarlison-anthony-gordon\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/25\/ousmane-dembele-barcelona-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Ousmane Dembele and Barcelona Contract Talk Continue to Drag On<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, his career is largely characterized by injuries and a failure to live up to the enormous expectations people had of him.\u00a0 However, the 25-year-old has recently given people reasons to be optimistic, as his 13 assists in the last La Liga season made him the league&#8217;s top playmaker.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman&#8217;s struggles for the national team are more understandable. After all, it can be difficult to make a name for yourself when you&#8217;re surrounded by such staggering brilliance.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Dembele would&#8217;ve probably hoped to score more than one competitive goal in his 27 matches for Le Bleus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future of Ousmane Dembele at Barcelona is about to be decided, with the Frenchman&#8217;s agent, Moussa Sissoko, set to talk with the club today, according to Fabrizio Romano. Ousmane Dembele: Barcelona Future Set to be Decided &nbsp; New contacts between Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9&#8217;s agent Moussa Sissoko and Barcelona will take place today. Ousmane wants an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3313,"featured_media":614372,"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":[1365,6,7188],"tags":[7335,1359],"class_list":["post-614362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona","category-la-liga","category-rumours","tag-barcelona-transfers","tag-ousmane-dembele"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614362","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\/3313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}