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Barcelona Put Contract Rebel Dembele Up For Sale

Barcelona Put Contract Rebel Dembele Up For Sale

Ousmane Dembele has been told to leave Barcelona ‘immediately’ after he was left out of the squad for Thursday’s Copa del Rey game against Athletic Bilbao.

Dembele’s deal at the Camp Nou expires at the end of this season but discussions to extend his contract have dragged on for months.

Barcelona have grown frustrated with Dembele’s attitude and sporting director Mateu Alemany has confirmed that the 24-year-old Frenchman is up for sale this month.

Alemany said at a press conference ahead of the Copa del Rey meeting with Athletic Club: "With Ousmane and his agents we started conversations around the month of July.

"In all this time, almost seven months, we have talked, Barca has made different offers, we have tried to find a way for the player to continue with us and those offers have been continuously rejected by his agents.

"It seems obvious to us that the player does not want to continue at Barcelona and is not committed to Barca's future project.

"We told him and his agents that he must leave the club immediately because we want to have players committed to the project.

"We expect a transfer to take place before January 31. The sporting consequence is that we don't want to have players who don't want to be at Barca.

"The fact that he was not in the [squad] list for today is the consequence of this whole process. The coach has our full support, it's a consistent attitude."

Dembele, whose Barcelona career has been blighted by injuries since joining from Borussia Dortmund in the summer of 2017, has made 11 appearances in all competitions this season, scoring one goal.

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