The roof leaked during the overnight rain and Barcelona was robbed again. Just when we thought that Bartomeu's departure was about to be the rebirth of Barcelona, we found that the orphans and "legacy" of the Bartomeu era continued to plague the club, and the inaction of the new management put the club in an even more passive position than ever before. Among them, the orphans Dembele, Umtiti and Coutinho made Xavi bald!
Around the New Year, the Spanish media reported that Dembele, who had previously agreed to renew his contract, has now repented and held hostage to the new contract to require an annual salary of 30 million euros before tax and an agent commission of 15 million euros and a player renewal bonus of 30 million euros. It seems that the whole world knows that Barcelona is in a serious economic crisis, and only Dembele and Dembele's agent, Sissoko, do not know, or that they do not care about the club's life or death.
Previously, Dembele had been rumored to agree to a salary cut and renewal, but from the current situation, Dembele is not a person with an opinion, at the mercy of the agent Sissoko, the agent agreed to renew the contract, the agent suggested that the club be held hostage with high salary. It can be said that Dembele is a grenade that can explode at any time for Barcelona. If the contract is renewed, it may ask for a raise at any time, or lie in a hospital bed at any time to play games until the end of the contract; the refusal to renew the contract occupies the salary space of the team and will directly affect the registration of the club's players.
At present, the most obvious problem for Barcelona is not Dembele's contract extension and the team's lack of money, but the serious injury that has caused the club to be unable to get together. In tomorrow's match against Mallorca, Barcelona will have a total of 11 men who cannot play, and there are 11 left in the first team, including two goalkeepers and two players who have just recovered from covid-19, and there is only one healthy striker in the forward line, Luc De Jong.
However, on the pending registration list, Barcelona have two new signings, Alves and Ferran Torres, and the two players can logically complete the registration on January 3, if the team has enough salary space. But at a pre-match press conference with Mallorca, Barcelona coach Xavi clearly replied that the club does not currently have the salary space to register two players, unless a player leaves or a player is deregistered in this winter window.
Why the title says that Dembele affects the registration of two new signings, because the attitude of the club is very clear, if the player refuses to renew the contract, the club is likely to sell the player in this winter window, even if it cannot be sold, it will cancel the registration of the player, making room for the registration of the two new signings.
From the current point of view, Wanshi Loyal Umtiti is not willing to leave the team, so Barcelona can open and play only Coutinho and Dembele, so whether they can reach a contract extension with Dembele will become a key link. But if neither player can send it away, harvey can have a night of gray hair.