Barca on Ousmane Dembele

@Nishankly, Coutinho would warm the bench at City. How can one be salty about a player I don't rate, want, nor be starter for City?

Who would he start over? KdB D. Silva Doesn't have the qualities that Pep likes in a Winger.

Lets start with the fact he's not a winger. That's probably why you don't rate him, You don't even know his best position let alone giving an opinion about him

I did mention the 2 midfielder he won't start over, left off Yaya for obvious reason since he can't play that deep. Than the next logical conclusion was on the wings. Read comprehension? Unless your not familiar with what positions KdB and Silva play in.

Apparently, Dembele did not turn up to training and is not answering his phone.

Hope Dortmund refuse to renegotiate below 150mill

He's already on a plane to Barca in anticipation of the medical.

This makes Barca scary tbh. He's perfect for them. He's looking to beat people and pass, not score.

Borussia Dortmund statement on Barcelona's offer for Ousmane Dembele pic.twitter.com/3dtwcvDmVt

— Ed Malyon (@eaamalyon) August 10, 2017

German version:

#dembele pic.twitter.com/Pb7s3b7IuE

— Jan-Henrik Gruszecki (@JH_Gruszecki) August 10, 2017

Dembele ain't no Hazard or Neymar tbh

More than happy with this

Yeah he is.... he's just different in that he's more like Overmars and Ribery in terms of style and mentality.

sportsczy wrote:Yeah he is.... he's just different in that he's more like Overmars and Ribery in terms of style and mentality.

Lol you really think he is on par with Neymar? Or did you mean Hazard specifically? (not that I agree)

sportsczy wrote:He's already on a plane to Barca in anticipation of the medical.

This makes Barca scary tbh. He's perfect for them. He's looking to beat people and pass, not score.

Only thing that would Barca scary would be them actually upgrading their midfield and get Busquets some actual help.

Until that happens no forward will actually make them scary imo.

Neymar at the age of 20? Yes; but just very different. Mbappe is a good comparable to Neymar because they play similar styles.

You can't compare guys who play completely differently and think the game completely differently.

So the offer was around 80-90m. Dortmund wants a lot more than that. Not 'market value' according to them.

Market has gone insane

Dembele's move to Barça is in line and BVB are already working on his alternatives. He's likely to be replaced with OL's M. Cornet. [kicker]

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

sportsczy wrote:He's already on a plane to Barca in anticipation of the medical.

This makes Barca scary tbh. He's perfect for them. He's looking to beat people and pass, not score.

Only thing that would Barca scary would be them actually upgrading their midfield and get Busquets some actual help.

Until that happens no forward will actually make them scary imo.

Completely agree. Need to move Messi to AM to prevent him from moving into central midfield all the time and leaving a gap along the wing that Rakitic has to cover. Even with Neymar gone our biggest problem is in midfield. Change formations, upgrade the midfield, get an actual LW (not Coutinho) and we're getting somewhere.

nasir6371 wrote:I did mention the 2 midfielder he won't start over, left off Yaya for obvious reason since he can't play that deep. Than the next logical conclusion was on the wings. Read comprehension? Unless your not familiar with what positions KdB and Silva play in.

That's like saying "I don't like Javier Zanetti because he's shit at playing CB"

Lol, no forward will make barca scarier with neymar gone. Except you're signing another messi or maybe CR7. Otherwise, the midfield is where its at.

If Barca think convincing Dembélé to go on strike has made a transfer more likely and easier, they might have miscalculated.

Dembélé has been suspended by BVB over the weekend.

This is of course, the first weekend of competitive games. Absolutely disgusting behaviour by Barca, once again confirming they are the scummiest club around.

It really is uunbelievable Hans. Of course, the French strike like champs anyhow.

the moment Neymar to PSG became concrete I knew Dembele to Barca would transpire

Why are we pinning Dembele's behavior on Barca?

Jesus, players have their own agency. Barca didn't tell Dembele to be a pos or we're not signing you (even if they did, we don't know about it). Barca aren't the ones with leverage here, they just lost Neymar. Dembele can do whatever he likes.

What's next, PSG are the scummiest club on the planet because they offered Neymar insane money and turned his head? Man U are scummy because they got Pogba's interest and offered big money and he acted like a douche?

As much as I dislike PSG and Man U for their insane transfer fees and inflating of the market, I don't personally see anything wrong with what they did. It's on the players for being unprofessional.

Typical that it comes to Barca and people act this way.

Who is this "we"? It's Hans and somewhat Sports, mostly Hans and he dislikes Barca only a little less than he despises Madrid and Casemiro.

Anyway, maybe Barcelona had some hand in it, maybe they did not do a single thing other than say "hey" but all the blame is on Dembele and his advisors. Lord only knows why the young man would go on "strike" literally before the season kicks off AND expect good things from it. Or even listen to such folly.

Kneejerk reaction because the active response from every GL member regarding Barca is "despicable club, worst club ever etc"

That's not to say Barca has always acted the best way the past couple years and as has been highlighted time and again, many of those actions are condemned by the Barca fans of the forum, who all despise the current management and we all admit they are useless and awful.

But then you have shit like this where Dembele acts like a spoiled child, and somehow this is Barca's fault?

Coming up on tomorrow's episode of "Access GL", Busquets forgets his sisters birthday, she gets upset with him. How could Barca let this happen to Sergio?

Hapless_Hans wrote:If Barca think convincing Dembélé to go on strike has made a transfer more likely and easier, they might have miscalculated.

Dembélé has been suspended by BVB over the weekend.

This is of course, the first weekend of competitive games. Absolutely disgusting behaviour by Barca, once again confirming they are the scummiest club around.

GTFO, Barca has nothing to do with Dembele's behaviour. What a joke of a post.

Watzke (CEO Dortmund): "Barça are not close to signing Dembélé"

Valkyrja wrote:Watzke (CEO Dortmund): "Barça are not close to signing Dembélé"

In other words, "se queda"?

So far the only players that are " se queda " are Barça's transfer targets.