Barcelona is having one of the most complicated markets in memory. Since the hiring of Ilkay Gündogan and Iñigo Martínez (both arrived with the letter of freedom) and the payment of the clause of Oriol Romeu to Girona, which needed to be set by LaLiga due to doubts about its amount, the Blaugrana team does not get nothing as it seemed to be planned. Neither the difficult (the arrival of Bernardo Silva) nor what seemed sung as the departure of Ousmane Dembélé.
Everything goes backwards. While the Portuguese is moving away, perhaps permanently, the other, who was leaving, but who in exchange could provide financial relief to an entity in need of money, has become entrenched. Even this afternoon he could be presented as a player from the Blaugrana squad in the Gamper preview after having written a formal letter to the club to activate his mandatory transfer sale clause before July 31 and spend the last days in Paris as a player of fact of PSG. A situation that can happen in very few clubs. Without a doubt, one of them is Barcelona.
From Barcelona they assured yesterday that the blaugrana club was meditating to withdraw from the bid for Bernardo Silva . One piece of news that no longer takes Manchester City by surprise, that they do not quite understand the communication strategy of the Catalan team with their Portuguese footballer, who it is not that they do not want to sell, is that they consider him almost renewed.
From Manchester they continue to affirm that they have not received any serious proposal from Barcelona by Bernardo Silva beyond messages in the press that proposed unacceptable or openly eccentric issues such as a loan with a mandatory purchase option in which Cancelo was later included . In short, a bread sandwich with nothing.
On the other hand, the case of Dembélé, who seemed sung, has become stuck in a Kafkaesque way. So much so that the player, if Barça wanted to, could play Gamper today.
Source: AS