Ousmane Dembele (25) is one of Barcelona’s best performing players at the start of the season and has full confidence in Xavi Hernandez, but history could have been quite different.
Continuing the Frenchman at FC Barcelona was never easy, and there were months of long negotiations that finally ended with a winger renewal until 2024 when it already looked like he wouldn’t continue as a wolf.
One of the teams that looked like a potential destination for Dembele over the past summer was Paris Saint-Germain and there was talk of early talks about a merger with Leonardo, but a change in the Paris team’s sporting management has caused plans to change. This is what the current sporting director Luis Campos indicated in statements to “RMC Sport”, justifying his decision not to sign with Dembele.
“I really like Ousmane Dembele. He is a very good player, but we did not sign him because he plays on the wing and we play without a wing. When you form a team, you have to make sure that everything fits together like Dembele may be at PSG,” said Luis Campos about the possibility of Dembele at PSG. .
With Mbappe, Messi and Neymar as a luxury avatar in Paris, Dembele’s ownership is also not assured and from PSG they have preferred to bolster other, more important positions in the squad. Will they regret now?