{"id":19713,"date":"2022-05-31T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/05\/31\/ousmane-dembele-decision-hands-chelsea-boost-in-transfer-race\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:00:30","slug":"ousmane-dembele-decision-hands-chelsea-boost-in-transfer-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/05\/31\/ousmane-dembele-decision-hands-chelsea-boost-in-transfer-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousmane Dembele decision hands Chelsea boost in transfer race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Chelsea have been handed a boost in the race for FC Barcelona forward, Ousmane Dembele.<\/p>\n<p>Dembele is out of contract at the Camp Nou at the end of June, meaning he is able to leave the club on a free transfer.<\/p>\n<p>So far, a number of teams such as Chelsea and PSG have been linked with a move for the Frenchman but there has, up until this point, been no clear frontrunner.<\/p>\n<p>Now though, it is being reported by Nick Purewal that Ousmane Dembele is understood to have delayed the decision on his future in part until the Chelsea sale was complete.<\/p>\n<p>And whilst that is not confirmation that Dembele has chosen Chelsea as his next club, it does suggest that he is pretty interested in a move to Stamford Bridge as, if he was not, he would not have waited until the takeover was completed.<\/p>\n<p>Purewal also mentions that Bayern Munich and PSG are interested in the winger:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ousmane Dembele is understood to have delayed the decision on his future in part until the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChelseaFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChelseaFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CFC<\/a> sale was complete. The out-of-contract Barcelona forward has interest from PSG and Bayern among others. Chelsea could move closer into that mix too if they need a forward<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Purewal (@NickPurewal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickPurewal\/status\/1531624505864601600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"gg101-at-label absolute\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<div class=\"gg101__brandbox--item flex aic gg101__brandbox--item_no-border\" data-segment='{\"block_widget_id\":\"1670456\",\"block_widget_type\":\"cta-shortcode-button\",\"brand_id\":765961,\"brand_name\":\"Bet365\",\"offer_text\":\"New customers bet u00a310 and get u00a350 in free bets!\"}'>\n<div class=\"gg101__brandbox--item__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"gg101__brandbox--item__image\">\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-json\/xm-link\/Bet365Football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" class=\"gg101__brandbox--item__link\">\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/165x165_Bet365-squareLogo.jpeg\" class=\"\" alt=\"Bet365 Brand Logo\">\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"gg101__brandbox--item__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-json\/xm-link\/Bet365Football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" class=\"gg101__brandbox--item__link\">New customers bet \u00a310 and get \u00a350 in free bets!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"gg101__brandbox--item__get-wrapper\" style=\"background-color: #008061\">\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-json\/xm-link\/Bet365Football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" class=\"gg101__brandbox--item__get flex aic jcc mla\"><span class=\"cjbb__fraction only_fraction\" style=\"color:white;\">BET NOW<\/span><\/a>\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gg101__brandbox-t-and-c\">Open Account Offer. 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The 25-year-old is clearly a talented player, as shown by his 13 assists in 21 La Liga appearances during 2021\/22.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is well documented that Dembele is one of the most injury-prone players around.<\/p>\n<p>During his time at Barcelona, he has had 14 separate injury\/illness issues, causing him to miss a staggering 102 games for La Blaugrana.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/football-betting-tips\/match-previews\/wednesday-1-june-africa-cup-of-nations-qualifier-betting-tips\/\"><strong>Wednesday\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier betting tips: Previews, predictions and odds<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/football-betting-tips\/match-previews\/wednesday-1-june-international-friendly-betting-tips\/\">Wednesday\u2019s international friendly betting tips: Previews, predictions and odds<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have been handed a boost in the race for FC Barcelona forward, Ousmane Dembele. Dembele is out of contract at the Camp Nou at the end of June, meaning he is able to leave the club on a free transfer. So far, a number of teams such as Chelsea and PSG have been linked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-19713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}