{"id":6616,"date":"2022-01-20T06:16:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T11:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/20\/newcastle-bound-barcelona-come-to-definitive-decision-on-ousmane-dembeles-future\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T06:16:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T11:16:04","slug":"newcastle-bound-barcelona-come-to-definitive-decision-on-ousmane-dembeles-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/01\/20\/newcastle-bound-barcelona-come-to-definitive-decision-on-ousmane-dembeles-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle bound? Barcelona come to definitive decision on Ousmane Dembele\u2019s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>After months of speculation about Ousmane Dembele\u2019s future, the decision seems to finally have been made.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman has entered the last 6 months of his contract in Barcelona since moving for 135 million pounds in 2016, having failed to set the world light during his time in Catalonia.<\/p>\n<p>And, with the attempt to improve the Barcelona squad seeing Ferran Torres join the club, Dembele\u2019s future was thrown even further into question.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2705\u00a1Ferran Torres, inscrito y listo para jugar!<\/p>\n<p>? 1\u20e3 9\u20e3 \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MrARI3hn0X\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/MrARI3hn0X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Diario SPORT (@sport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sport\/status\/1481060858939781123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So, what next for Dembele? Well, whatever it is, it won\u2019t be at the Nou Camp.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of their clash with Athletic Club on Thursday evening, Barcelona chief Mateu Alemany revealed why Dembele was not part of the squad. The Barca man claimed:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand Dembele\u2019s decision is to not continue (at Bar\u00e7a) and we\u2019ve communicated our decision (to leave him out). We want players that are committed to the club and we have told him he has to leave the club as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ca\">Mateu Alemany parla de la situaci\u00f3 d\u2019Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fdfIOMq6qJ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/fdfIOMq6qJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona_cat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona_cat\/status\/1484091103511031808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But where could he go?<\/p>\n<h2>Destinations for Dembele?<\/h2>\n<p>It is hard to see anyone paying a significant fee for the 24-year-old, knowing that he will be able to walk for free in the summer. However, Newcastle may wish to take the opportunity to make a statement signing under new ownership, having missed out on several of their top targets this January already.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, both Manchester United and Juventus are likely to be interested in the winger, while Liverpool are still in need of a quality addition to their front line. All three clubs have been linked, but only when he became out of contract in the summer, and it is unclear as to whether they would actually pay a fee.<\/p>\n<p>Will we see the Frenchman on Tyneside?<\/p>\n<h3>Read more:<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/youngster-impresses-again-and-three-talking-points-as-manchester-united-dispatch-determined-brentford\/\" rel=\"v:url\">Youngster impresses again and three talking points as Manchester United dispatch determined Brentford<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/top-stories\/fuming-how-cristiano-ronaldo-reacted-to-being-substituted-against-brentford\/\" rel=\"v:url\">\u2018Fuming\u2019 How Cristiano Ronaldo reacted to being substituted against Brentford<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of speculation about Ousmane Dembele\u2019s future, the decision seems to finally have been made. The Frenchman has entered the last 6 months of his contract in Barcelona since moving for 135 million pounds in 2016, having failed to set the world light during his time in Catalonia. And, with the attempt to improve [&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-6616","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\/6616","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=6616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}