In the 29th round of La Liga, Barca slaughtered Real Madrid 4-0, stopping the tragic experience of 5 consecutive defeats against Real Madrid, but the pit dug by Koeman was too big, a big win was not enough to make Barca turn into a championship team, the La Liga standings are still the world of Real Madrid, Barca only 54 points, Real Madrid 66 points. Barca ushered in the Xavi era, after replacing Koeman as Barca manager, Xavi led the team back to the first-class level, after defeating Real Madrid, Xavi said bluntly: Barca can be said to be back.
According to the statistics, after Xavi took office, he led Barca to achieve 109 consecutive Unbeaten games in La Liga, with 6 wins and 4 draws, and led the team to the top four of the table, and currently ranks third. Barca's big rebound is also related to reinforcements, the winter window to introduce Ferran Torres and Aubameyang have played beautiful data, Aubameyang 7 games in 7 La Liga 7 goals assisted once, Ferrantores scored 4 goals in 8 La Liga games, assisted 3 assists.
The new signings also helped Xavi revitalize Dembele, who had originally brought in Barca for 140 million euros, and Dembele assisted twice in the 4-0 win over Real Madrid, becoming an important role in Barca's attacking end. So far. Dembele has become Barca's assist king this season, can be called Messi's possession, scoring inefficient goals, but the engine attributes are extremely strong, scoring 1 goal and assisting 9 times in 12 La Liga games this season, ranking second in the La Liga assist list, second only to Benzema, who delivered 11 assists.
With the recent recovery of the state, Dembele, who has become a barça parallel goods, began to brew to stay in the team, he was not willing to shrink his value by 110 million euros, according to the "German transfer" information, Dembele's value fell to 30 million euros, The difference between the value of 140 million euros when he first joined is very large, and he and Coutinho have signs of becoming the biggest parallel cargo in the history of Barca, neither of them has played the right value in Barca, and even dragged down Barca's finances, resulting in Barca's turmoil in the recent year, and he had to give up Messi for this.
According to media and journalistic reports, Dembele still wants to stay in the team, and he hopes to prove himself at Barca. Journalist Dario Montero revealed that the 24-year-old Dembele's contract with Barca expired in June this summer, the two sides have not yet renewed their contract, Dembele has performed well recently, for which he wants to stay in Barca, and believes that he can succeed Messi as the leader of the Xavi era and lead the team to rise again. Spanish media Serre Radio said dembele had not reached a signing agreement with any other team and that he was willing to negotiate a contract extension with Barca. From Dembele's state, it can be seen that he really wants to stay in Barca, but the salary package may once again become a resistance to negotiations between the two sides, and with Barca's current financial resources, Dembele can only have the opportunity to complete the renewal of the contract by reducing salary.