It is reported that the Barca club will hold the latest meeting to study how to deal with dembele's problem.
Due to Dembele's delay in reaching a contract extension with the club, Barca have now exhausted their patience with him. The management, led by Laporta, believes that such endless negotiations will not have any substantive effect on the outcome, even if Barca is willing to give in on certain terms, but the Annual Salary and Commission Request for Contracts put forward by Dembele's agents is unlikely to be agreed. Based on such a premise, the negotiations between the two sides will not be able to make substantive progress at all.
The club's top brass wanted Dembele to be put in the stands as a way to put pressure on the players and his agents. At present, there are also some contradictions between Dembele and his agent, and he even has plans to replace the agent. Barca's top brass hopes to use this opportunity to put pressure on Dembele to comply.
However, Xavi, who is the barcelona manager, disagrees with the proposal. In a meeting with Barca club superintendent Alemani, Xavi bluntly stated that he did not want to put Dembele in the stands, which would affect Barca's record, and that he as manager is the one who bears the main responsibility for the team's results. Harvey prefers Dembele to continue to be part of the team and play when necessary.
On the issue of Dembele's disposition, Laporta and Xavi are on opposite sides. Think big of the team. Laporta does not want Dembele to leave the team for free, and even if he cannot renew his contract, Laporta also wants to leave Dembele in the winter transfer window. If Dembele does not agree, then wearing the cold bench in the second half of the season is Barca's only blackmail chip. For a player of Dembele's age, sitting on the cold bench for a few months will have a very big impact on him.
As for Harvey, of course, he thinks about it from the perspective of the team's performance. Dembele is one of the few breaking points in Barca's frontcourt, and barca's attack will be even more difficult once it loses his breakthrough advance. The team will also face the challenge of competing for four and the Europa League in the second half of the season, and the burden on Xavi is very heavy, and once Barca falls out of the top four and does not get a Champions League place next season, the consequences will be quite serious.
Laporta and Harvey are both right from their own point of view, and in the end it's up to them to see who can compromise. If both sides do not compromise, in the end, there will be great contradictions between the two.