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Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Ousmane Dembélé and Barça, the soap opera continues
FC Barcelona seems to have made up its mind: Ousmane Dembélé, at the end of his contract in June, will not extend. So how do you get some money out of a player bought 145 million euros from Borussia Dortmund in 2017? By selling it from January, of course. According to the Catalan daily Sport, the 24-year-old Les Bleus winger has been offered to Manchester United and Newcastle for 20 million euros.
The Magpies, picking up in the Premiership (penultimate) despite their takeover by a wealthy Saudi fund in early October, would be very interested. The concern is that, still according to Sport, the player would see himself waiting until the end of his contract this summer, to go free wherever he wants with a nice signing bonus in passing.
Eliaquim Mangala on the relaunch in Saint-Etienne?
For the time being, the Pascal Dupraz potion has not revitalized Saint-Etienne, Ligue 1 red lantern with five points behind the Bordeaux-Lorient-Troyes trio. So, ASSE embarked on a January recruitment that looked like a big bet. If we except Paul Bernardoni, sure value of L1 even if he had lost his place in Angers, Bakari Sako, Sadia Thioub or Joris Gnagnon do not present great guarantees.
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