If you can't stand it, you don't need to put up with it anymore. At the pre-match press conference between Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao, Barcelona coach Xavi clarified the future of the team's striker Dembele for the first time to the fans, and for the French striker who has been delaying the renewal of the contract for half a year, Xavi directly made the problem public and issued an ultimatum: the winter window is either to renew the contract or leave the team!
At the pre-match press conference with Athletic Bilbao, Barcelona coach Xavi gave a rare answer to the team's personnel changes, the most notable of which was the renewal of the contract of the team's striker Dembele. Due to the involvement of Dembele's agents, the current renewal of Dembele's contract has become more complicated.
Asked about the club's approach to Dembele's contract extension, Harvey bluntly said: "If you don't renew the contract, you have to take measures, because 5 months ago the club has started negotiations with the player's agent to renew the contract, but the two sides are currently at a standstill. But we don't consider putting Dembele in the stands, giving him only two options: renew his contract or leave the team. ”
This is the first time since Dembele's contract extension storm that Xavi has clarified Dembele's future at the club, and has made it clear that the team will not put players on the bench or leave the stands cold, because the only options for players are to renew their contracts or leave the team in the winter window.
Ironically, a day earlier, Dembele's agent, Sissoko, had also publicly slammed Barca's contract renewal negotiations, bluntly saying: "The move of sending players to the stands doesn't work for people like us because I want to defend the interests of my players." "But the current situation is that the club will not send players to the stands, did not use any means to force players to renew their contracts, and even only gave two choices: renewal and departure. In other words, a showdown, love to renew the contract, no renewal is to leave in this winter window.
The situation in which Barca, who was thought by agent Sisso, used various means to force players to renew their contracts did not appear, but at present, Barça intends to send players away. In terms of Dembele's attendance and professionalism at Barca in the past 4 and a half years, not many teams in Europe are willing to accept this pair of broken shoes, coupled with an annual salary of 40 million euros and an agent commission of 20 million euros, it can be said that no team in Europe dares to ask for such a so-called "world-class striker".
However, from Xavi's words, this is not only to convey information to Dembele and his agent, but also to release the news that Dembele can only leave the team without renewing his contract, so that other teams in Europe who are interested in loan or buyout know that Barca have put Dembele into the transfer market in order to sell this mess before the winter window closes, and stop the loss in time in the last six months.
If Dembele refuses to renew his contract in the last ten days, dembele is likely to leave the team in this winter window. Perhaps because Messi and Neymar and Suarez and others have not been around for too long, making his agent mistakenly think that he is already important to the club, in barcelona's century-old history, there is no shortage of world-class, historical stars such as Cruyff, Ronaldinho and Messi, but even they have left the Red and Blues without exception, because in the most fundamental interests of the club, the club is always higher than the individual, which is the core concept of any professional club. Therefore, if Dembele, who mistakenly regarded himself as a treasure, did not understand his importance, he was likely to lose his job in this winter window, at least the opportunity to work in Barcelona.