On 28 December, Barca officially announced the signing of Spanish striker Ferrantores. But if they want to register for him, Barca will have to clean up Umtiti and Coutinho, and a contract extension with French winger Dembele is one of the solutions, and the latter is easier to operate than the two nails. According to italian media Sportitalia reporter Rudi Galletti, Dembele may complete a contract extension with Barcelona in the near future, and he will receive a four-year contract with an annual salary of 9.5 million euros.
Before that, Dembele took an annual salary of 12 million euros after tax, and now even the salary + bonus is only 9.5 million, and the salary reduction is still very large. He accepted a pay cut, and Ferrantores was one point more likely to successfully register. After all, today's Barcelona are limited by the salary cap.
Prior to this, Dembele had a scandal with a number of clubs, and the expiration of his contract next summer also gave him the initiative to leave the team, and the Premier League tycoon Newcastle even offered an annual salary of 15 million euros in the hope of attracting him. But he was able to change his mind and stay at Barca for two main reasons. The first is that manager Xavi is very appreciative of Dembele. In the tactical system of Barca's young marshal, the winger plays a very important role, and today's Barça, who can be called a speed-type explosive point player, has no semicolon except dembele's family. Although Xavi has seen a lot of outstanding players in recent times, the only one who can finally buy it is Ferrantores, who is a rotating player of Manchester City, and although Torres plays as a winger, his absolute speed is not fast, and he is often used by Pep Guardiola in Manchester City.
So even if Ferrantore comes, Dembele's tactical role is still indispensable, and it is better to keep him than to let him go free and spend tens of millions of euros to scratch the lottery.
The second is the entanglement of barca clubs. In the summer of 2017, they spent 135 million euros to bring Dembele from Dort to Camp Nou, hoping that he would become Neymar's successor, but after joining Barca, Dembele, who was like an iron man, opened the medicine jar mode, and in more than 4 seasons, he only played 126 games for Barca, scoring 30 goals and 24 assists. In the absence of injuries, Dembele did show excellent offensive talent, nicknamed "The King of Xiang ball", but his ultra-short standby of playing a ball for two months also gave Barca a headache.
The point is that Dembele is only 24 years old now, and if he watches him go free after his contract expires next summer, barca's hundreds of millions of euros invested in him will be completely lost. And there is a saying that dembele's frequent injuries at Barca are directly related to the lack of training intensity of the team, and if you join a team with enough training intensity to govern rigorously, such as Liverpool, Bayern or Manchester City, the possibility of the 24-year-old Dembele returning to the top is still very large. And this kind of wedding dress for others is something that Barca is even more unacceptable.
So in this case, Dembele's salary cut and renewal is barca's most satisfactory choice. However, a four-year contract with an annual salary of 9.5 million euros is actually a lot of risk for Barca. If The situation in Dembele does not improve and is still plagued by injuries, it will undoubtedly become a hot potato that Barca can't shake off, and then they will really have to die and suffer.