Barcelona have been surprised by the rejuvenation of Ousmane Dembele since the January transfer window where they outright attempted to find him a transfer away from the club, yet as the season has progressed there is now a very realistic debate of who should be retained out of the Frenchman and Adama Traore.
Traore, signed initially on loan, was recruited in January to essentially be Dembele's replacement, with nobody at Barcelona expecting the former Borussia Dortmund star to remain beyond the mid-season window.
However, now the situation is different and it seems impossible that the Blaugrana could be able to keep players, especially given their economic difficulties.
Dembele has an advantage in that all that Barcelona's technical department need to do is get him to agree to a new contract, in order to sign Traore they would have to part with 30 million euros as part of their initial agreement with Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Dembele can technically speak to foreign clubs about a pre-contract agreement at this moment, and since negotiations rather publicly broke down with Barcelona in January, there has been no movement.
Barcelona won't make the first move to try and retain the player, although Dembele would actually quite like to stay at the Camp Nou if the offer is right.
He is waiting for Los Cules' technical department to call him with a suitable offer, and this may well end up a cheaper option than incorporating Traore on a permanent basis.
With Ferran Torres having already been signed in January, Barcelona don't have as much of a budget for transfers as in the past, and the question many are asking is whether or not it may be more fiscally prudent to pay Dembele what he wants, in the hope he continues this good form, than have to pay 30 million euros for a player who may not even have as high a ceiling as Dembele's natural floor.
rsnnpn123
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give dembele his money, we can't let him go
Jamirl
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Dembele has really flourished under xavi less than 6 months,he has turned into the player we all longed to see bringing fresh memory of he's glory days at Dortmund, he's linkup with aubameyang especially always creates more scoring chances,,dembele should stay who knows we might see a dembele-auba deadly duo soon enough
charitywale
192
Barça's squad held up Ansu Fati's jersey after their El Clasico victory 🥺 💛
Sunablpsu
145
Barcelona need boths Adama traore and Dembele, theses 2 players needs each others and theirs presence makes them play better and that benefits the team, if we all look at back since Dembele arrived at Barcelona he’s never perform the way he’s performing now , that shows that Adama’s presence is the reason knowing that Adama is at Barcelona as Dembele’s replacement, so letting Adama leave and retain Dembele he’s gonna starts his jokes, but retains boths they will perform at the highest level and that’s what we want ... it’s just my point of view
olosco50
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Give us Dembele plus Adama and we will give you Lukaku
Seaninho_94
33
Sell Depay, Lenglet, Umtiti, and the other guys on loan.. Loan out Mingueza, Puig and the other fellows.. Bring In Traore, Christensen, Azpilicueta and maybe Haaland keep Dembele wait for Fati... use money to make money... we dont need too much...