{"id":617976,"date":"2022-09-19T10:55:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=617976"},"modified":"2022-09-19T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T14:55:47","slug":"paris-saint-germain-rejected-ousmane-dembele-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/19\/paris-saint-germain-rejected-ousmane-dembele-move\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s Great but We Had Different Plans\u2019: Paris Saint-Germain Chief Confirms They Rejected Summer Move for 34-Goal Barcelona Star Once Dubbed as \u2018Better Than Neymar&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/14\/fabrizio-romano-issues-lionel-messi-update\/\" target=\"_self\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/a>\u00a0Director Luis Campos has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1571433923120332802?s=20&amp;t=vAuBXxfs-bSxvozHh_9hYw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed that they opted against making a move<\/a> for Ousmane Dembele when he became a free agent in the summer. The Frenchman ultimately ended up re-signing with Barcelona.<\/p>\n<h2>Paris Saint-Germain Director Confirms They Snubbed Ousmane Dembele Move<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">PSG director Luis Campos reveals on Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9: \u201cWe didn\u2019t sign Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 because he\u2019s a winger and we\u2019re playing with another system\u201d. \u26d4\ufe0f\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PSG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#PSG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, he\u2019s great but we had different plans\u201d. Talks between PSG and Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 took place with Leonardo as director. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9iw2b02iUq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/9iw2b02iUq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1571433923120332802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Luis Campos Gives Honest Assessment on Dembele<\/h3>\n<p>In the recently-passed summer window, the new PSG Director played a major role over their transfers and was responsible for orchestrating a number of the deals. He took over the responsibilities of ex-PSG sporting director Leonardo, who left the club after the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining why the Ligue 1 giants did not pursue a move for Dembele, Campos said: &#8220;We didn\u2019t sign Dembele because he\u2019s a winger and we\u2019re playing with another system. I love Dembele, he\u2019s great but we had different plans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/12\/manchester-united-marcus-rashford-psg\/\" target=\"_self\">Luis Campos Believes Marcus Rashford to Be Same Profile Player as Kylian Mbappe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before the summer window had even begun, PSG splurged an enormous amount of money to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/21\/kylian-mbappe-staying-paris-saint-germain\/\" target=\"_self\">convince Kylian Mbappe to stay with them<\/a> rather than join Real Madrid. The French side will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2022\/may\/30\/kylian-mbappe-new-contract-psg-paris-saint-germain\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly pay him \u00a3217 million in wages<\/a> over a three-year contract &#8211; making him the highest-paid player in the world. With PSG playing Neymar, Mbappe and Lionel Messi together &#8211; they probably didn&#8217;t have a space for Dembele in their lineup and shelved plans to sign him.<\/p>\n<h3>PSG\u2019s Talks With Dembele Took Place During Leonardo\u2019s Stay<\/h3>\n<p>Fabrizio Romano states that the Ligue 1 side were only interested in signing Dembele when Leonardo was part of the club. The former Director was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-10444339\/Ousmane-Dembeles-agent-appears-accidentally-phone-call-PSG.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly the one to hold talks<\/a> with the French winger&#8217;s representatives and push the interest to bring him to Paris.<\/p>\n<p>But the Brazilian was forced to leave his post with PSG and the club changed their minds about making a move for the French international, who was once <a href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/football\/528356\/ousmane-dembele-neymar-barcelona-president-josep-bartomeu-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dubbed as &#8216;better than Neymar&#8217;<\/a> by former Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu. Dembele eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/28\/ousmane-dembele-barcelona-future\/\" target=\"_self\">changed his mind<\/a>, signing a two-year contract with Barcelona and has started the season well with them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/04\/psg-midfielder-wijnaldum-signs-for-roma\/\" target=\"_self\">PSG Send Gini Wijnaldum on Loan to AS Roma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old winger has begun the campaign with two goals and four assists in eight appearances so far &#8211; taking his tally to 34 goals scored in his entire time with Barcelona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain\u00a0Director Luis Campos has revealed that they opted against making a move for Ousmane Dembele when he became a free agent in the summer. The Frenchman ultimately ended up re-signing with Barcelona. Paris Saint-Germain Director Confirms They Snubbed Ousmane Dembele Move PSG director Luis Campos reveals on Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9: \u201cWe didn\u2019t sign Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":618004,"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":[1367,1365,6,7,30],"tags":[1359,8222],"class_list":["post-617976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paris-saint-germain","category-barcelona","category-la-liga","category-ligue-1","category-news","tag-ousmane-dembele","tag-psg-news"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617976","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=617976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}