The warnings from Barcelona and

Xavi Hernández

to

Ousmane Dembélé

were serious. The Barça coach has excluded the French footballer from the call to face Athletic on Wednesday in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey. The slogan of the entity, and accepted by the coach, is very clear. Dembélé will not play again if he does not renew his contract, which ends on June 30. If not, something that is clear in the offices of the Camp Nou, the intention of the leaders of Barça is to force a sale or transfer before the end of the current winter market.

The economic interest passes, thus, ahead of the sports one.

Because in San Mamés neither will

Memphis Depay

, with an overload, nor

Luuk de Jong

, sanctioned.

But yes

Martin Braithwaite

, recovered from his knee injury and who has not played since last August 29.

There are no guessed exits to the labyrinth.

Dembélé is a boy who is used to responding to everything with a smile.

Before a joke, a smile.

Before a reproach, another smile.

He does the same.

«And so it is very difficult to know what goes through his head.

He always looks happy, but in his world », admits a source from the Ciutat Esportiva.

An impossible world to interpret both for JoanLaporta -«Dembélé is better than

Mbappé

», the president cried out during his pampering campaign-, and for coach Xavi Hernández, who came to the Barcelona bench with the idea of ​​finally converting the soccer player in a referential extreme.

The result remains the same.

Nobody understands Dembélé.

And in the face of misunderstanding, determination.

It was Xavi who took on the eve of the match against Athletic as the spokesperson to establish the club's position: "Either Dembélé renews or we will seek his departure."

They do not contemplate in the Barcelona entity that the winter market ends without having resolved the player's situation.

The striker refuses to leave in January

Dembélé's representatives, who say they feel pressured, maintain, however, that there is no rush to close an agreement. Far from it that they contemplate an exit from Barcelona this January. In fact, Dembélé himself has been expressing to both Laporta and Xavi his desire to continue as a Barça player. Although this aspiration does not agree with the turbulent negotiating process of recent weeks, with Mateu Alemany, Barcelona's director of football, and Moussa Sissoko, Dembélé's main agent, as the main protagonists.

They believe in Barcelona that the demands of the representative, who claimed the highest salary in the squad for the winger, actually respond to a dilation strategy.

With the hope that the footballer can finish his contract as a Barça player on June 30 and thus be able to secure a generous signing bonus at his new club.

"You must leave immediately"

"It seems obvious to us that the player does not want to continue at Barcelona and, therefore, is not committed to the club's future project. In this scenario, both he and his agent have been told that he must leave immediately and we hope that a transfer will take place before January 31. The fact that he is not called up is merely a consequence of this process. The club is not the one who should determine that. It is the coach. But he has our full support and we It seems a totally coherent attitude", explained Mateu Alemany, Barcelona's director of football, to the entity's official media.

The wait for Dembélé becomes unbearable.

Not so much because of the possibility that a footballer usually tied to the stretcher and with a chaotic performance will not continue, but because his renewal would allow Barça to expand its salary margin as soon as possible, an essential requirement to reinforce the squad with a battering ram in this market.

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