The Camp Nou board are considering tempting Atlético into parting with the France striker by offering his international teammate on loan.
Barcelona are considering throwing Ousmane Dembélé into any potential bid for Atlético Madrid striker Antoine Griezmann, according to Mundo Deportivo.
The Camp Nou board have long been linked with a move for the France striker and should they manage to land their primary summer transfer target his France teammate would find playing time in even shorter supply.
The arrival of Philippe Coutinho in the January window has already hampered Dembélé in his return from a serious injury and in total the France winger has made only 21 appearances this season, scoring twice and providing eight assists.
Barcelona considering Dembélé loan for 2018-19
Barça are now considering loaning Dembélé, 20, out to gain experience and see the possibility of him joining another Liga side as ideal and the prospect of offering the 105-million-euro winger to Atlético in part exchange for Griezmann as a win-win for both clubs.
However, if Dembélé becomes available he will not be short of offers for elsewhere, with Arsenal another prospective destination and PSG unlikely to be unmoved by the prospect of adding the lightning France international to an already devastating attack for a season and another tilt a deeper run in the Champions League.
Seanjrb
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I’m against this 100%. We aren’t producing much young talent again so if we gonna buy one we better keep him! Idc how good girezmann is I rather dembelle in the long run
MussaßalochMullaza
156
well a really big news for us . i think we should go for it because we are lacking a striker in our team and we have mid fields so we should go for Griezmann .
Mony_S1
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This will be great if FCB can loan Ousmane Dembele to Atletico Madrid and in return buy Griezmann. That way dembele will get more minutes to play in Atletico Madrid to gain experience and FC Barcelona will benefit with experienced winger Griezmann. So of course it will be a Win-Win situation for FC Barcelona.
Alie M A Kouyateh
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In my opinion i do prefer Dembele to stay and fight for his place in the starting lines up. Because it is not easy to adopt to Barcelona style of play, for Dembele his adaptation was disrupted by injured. Barcelona had a complete squad without Dembele neither Greizmamn. With the help of these competence, capable, talented and potential players Barcelona can eliminate any teams in any competition and be crowned as champion. I further believed if Dembele can be given the chance, he will definitely meet our expectation. I'm not speaking against Greizmamn, I know he is world class player. Finally Barcelona should not allow their youngster to go on loan.
90FacultyGH
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its sad how we can't groom O.Dembele and now we want to loan in out, Barcelona needs a strong attack from the wings and this boy is good for such deal. P. Courthino is a good skipper and attacker as well. we need a three head attack and stop focus on A. Griezmann we need to strategize with what we have. I believe we have the best players let's get to work.
fabbdeknty
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Barca are not thinking of how to strengthen the midfield, they are considering loaning dembele or griezmann. pretty amazing .... now I understand why the coach left dembele on the bench and use sergi roberto on the right wing. well, learn from klop , he surely knows how to develop a player. how many players have developed under the present coach? let's start asking questions.....
Enny_Martinee01
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A team like Barca sends one of his attacking prospects to Athletico who plays a kind of football that is totally different to the way we play?,to me,that's not a good plan why not send him on loan maybe to Bayern,Arsenal,or leave him in our team B for a while so he can adapt to our play,I wouldn't advice sending him to Man City cause he almost wouldn't get playing time but would have made sense
Cotdikt
38
now we're not in position of grooming dembele, that system is no more in Barcelona n things have changed. we want the champions league cup no time for grooming. that's why we're loaning them n when they come back they're far better but not at this crucial moment where much is expected from Barca...even Andre Gomes must be loaned or sold cos he's not really at Barcelona level at all. I'm up for this 120%