According to the latest news from Barca's reporter Romero, Barca winger Dembele's contract extension negotiations with the club have now been completely broken. The Frenchman is highly likely to leave the team freely after his contract expires. Dembele was worth 135 million euros when he joined Barca, and once he leaves the team as a free agent, Barca will lose all his money.
Dembele's agent demanded an annual salary of €40 million before tax from Barca, as well as a €20 million renewal signing fee. Such a request angered Barca management, who believed that it was a robbery and that the Dembele team had no sincerity in renewing their contracts. Laporta even thought Dembele's agent was deliberately playing a trick on Barca.
The Dembele team was very determined and insisted on not accepting a salary cut extension. Their logic is that once Dembele accepts a pay cut, the vacated salary space must be given to new signing Ferran Torres to register. In terms of Ferland's position in the team, he and Dembele are themselves in competition. Reducing one's own salary to achieve competitors is completely undesirable in the eyes of Dembele agents.
On the other hand, Barca's scandal with Dortmund striker Haaland is now in full swing, which is also a point of concern for the Dembele team. Since the club has the money to sign the higher-paid Haaland, why can't they accept Dembele's terms of contract extension, which is unfair to the Frenchman.
All in all, at this point, the contradictions between barca management and Dembele's team are probably difficult to reconcile. Barca are about to face the risk of a $135 million dembele free throw. Dembele reached a tacit understanding with the club before joining Barca. So after the off-season, he did not return to Dortmund as scheduled to participate in the team's training. Instead, the phone did not answer, the message did not return, and the big play disappeared. In the end, Dortmund had no choice but to sell the Frenchman to Barca, and Dembele successfully fulfilled his wish to join Barca.
It's just such a player with no work ethic and regards the spirit of the contract as nothing, and now Barca expects him to empathize with the club and consider the problem from the perspective of the club, which is itself a fantasy. Now Barça is afraid that it can only swallow the evil consequences on its own, and slowly regret it. An even bigger crisis is yet to come, with Dembele unable to renew his contract and could lead to the inability of new signing Ferran Torres to complete the registration, leading to an even bigger scandal.