It's easier said than done. With Newmar gone they needed a big move to make fans forget Neymar and with 222 Million all the clubs were going to sell expensive in order to gasp some of that money. Psg created a necesity and a handicap to Barca in one move.
They should have payed 200 million in depth and used the rest towards the next summer. They already had a great team and could have taken advantage of young talents. Teams always feel this need to overspend because others do the same.
Not really. Dembele treated BVB really badly by disappearing. Nobody knew where he was when he had already flown to Barcelona without permission. Then he tried to bully BVB into letting him go by refusing to return and play for them again. The stance from Dortmund was then communicated really clearly. There were only 2 options: - Barca pay us all the moneys - We make an example and ban him from the first team for the remainder of his contract So there was no way Barca would've had him any cheaper after that. Imo that is when Barca should've backed out of the deal. Dembele had already shown his personality at that point, spending all the money on a known rotten apple is what got them in this whole saga.
It is astonishing how Barcelona receiving a world record transfer fee basically crippled them. Some of the people in charge should not be legally allowed to run a newspaper kiosk.
Yea, gladly they are gone now, the neymar transfere also ruined football as a whole, psg buying him for 225 mil showed the whole world that they can milk so much money, and now you have players like Maguire who is absolutely garbage, and he was sold for 80+million...
As a Barça fan, the worst part isn't that we're only getting 25M, or that for the past 6 years he's done little to nothing, is that when he was starting to play good, to get on well with the squad and he got a coach that would die for him in Xavi he decides to cash out to PSG. It's honestly baffling. I hope Raphinha improves upon his good first season or that Abde, Fati or Ferrán Torres step up big time
Dude come on no one care about loyalty if your club can't even give him pay rise and yet cut his salary...If we put ourself in his situation, I will jump to PSG in heartbeat as Barca are sh1thole financially...
Honestly what I miss in the video is the horrendous way he left BVB. When he treated the club like that, BVB took the stance of '140 million or he'll go to our reserve team to kill his career'. That took away all of Barca's negotiating room, as it became a matter of principle for BVB. After that whole debacle, imo Barca should've backed out. I mean he already showed his terrible personality before joining them, everything after is then completely on them. They knew and got him anyways.
@@sefyanabdalla3801but do you really think Dembele asked out at BVB and they flipped out and made such statements? I mean Bellingham, Haaland, Sancho, Dembele, Borussia is more than accustomed to selling their top players for top money. This had to be something else
@@sefyanabdalla3801 He signed a contract an year before. Even if he wanted his dream move, the temper tantrum and terrible behaviour is that of a child. not a working professional. BVB just gave him his disrespect back
Man how things have changed in barca. 10 years ago we spoke about barca like it was the perfect footballing machine, developing great prospects that felt a deep connection with the club. It all changed in the mid 2010s when they started hiring lethal mercenaries who would stab them in the back for a better deal.
@@MrKrewie it’s not that, barcelona was probably one of the most valuable and best clubs in the world during that time, of course people wanted to get some money into their pockets
Bartolomeu sank this club, 20+players bought, salaries like no other, 1 billion in debt, a sporting project very lame by Barcelona's standards and then covid struck. This was recipe for disaster and this only because Rosell was unfairly charged by Madrid courts as in 5 out of 6 charges(and 1.5 years in prison) he has been found not guilty by now. Barcelona have had just won Champions League with Bartolomeu having just taking over from Rosell(who built a great team) who resigned and then election were to happen and nobody in the club could vote against a president who just won Champions League albeit he had been president for only 6 months. Then he sank the club, im so sorry for that, absolutely abyssal performance as a club president from Bartolomeu.
As a Barca fan I'm a bit gutted, as Xavi fought for him from the moment he came in and even had Dembele in the best form of his entire Barca career tbh.. most assists in La Liga in 21/22 and he was crucial for us last season despite injuries. It shows also the influence agents have on their players' decision making. I always thought Dembele was one of the most electric and talented wingers I've ever seen... I think if he improved his decision making he'd have had world class stats. Hopefully the 16yo Yamal can take the reigns because I have little faith in Raphinha
Raphinha is a decent player but he's so one footed that if he could he'll probably walk on one foot. But he's very hard worker, great presser and sacrifices defensively for the team. Lamine will be a better player than Dembele if everything goes according to PLAN, which is rarely the case. His technical abilities and game understanding is beyond his age. For all the crazy talent Dembele has, until recently his brain was slower than his body.
Why exactly are you gutted? … he wasn’t Messi , Neymar , Suarez, Ronaldinho,Rivaldo , Judas Figo, Ronaldo, Romario…. He was a waste of time and money .. I am glad he is going
I feel for Xavi. He was the only one last year who truly wanted to keep him (Dembele was getting whistled by the home fans in winter 2021-spring 2022). He always trusted him and gave him his full support and said many times publically how he thinks he is one of the best in the world. He’s still relatively new as a manager so this is a learning experience but I still feel for him a bit
@farazhahzad9650 to be fair Dembele also paid Xavi back with his performance that won Barca the league last season. Barca was to blame for the crazy transfer to get Dembele in the first place. With such high transfer, his agents will obviously demand a salary that reflects it.
@@ShinkiroZeroHe didn't paid shit back, incredibly trash player that gets injured always. We won the league because of our defense and ter Stegen hence the clean sheet record, not to mention Lewandowski doing Lewa things, Dembele can get the fuck out the club thank God.
@@m0ntypth0n mentally challenged individual do tend to laugh a lot. You are the one who compared Dembele with Raphinha. Where did I ever mentioned Dembele being the most important player in their run in? It would have been Lewandowski more so than Raphinha if to single out a specific player for last season.
Ik most barca fans like to make fun of him and hate him now, but for me personally he is one of my favorite players to watch, he is so incredibly skilled and talented. Wish him nothing but the best with psg and hope he can stay healthy.
That Pique quote was ironic as he later admitted to not sleeping much and partying often. Strange he chose to publicly speak poorly of Dembele's lifestyle. Bad leader.
I am disappointed, but at the same time genuinely excited that we don't have to deal with him and Moussa Snakesoko's saga anymore. Time to focus on Lamine Yamal!
14:19 Idk if I would say 230k p/w for Dembele was a great deal. When you consider that Saka is on 195k p/w, Martinelli is on 180k p/w, Lewis Diaz is on 55k p/w and Bernardo Silva is on 150k p/w. That new contract Barca were going to offer Dembele would have been severely over paying for someone who always delivers a mixed bag of performances on the foundation of guaranteed injury lay-offs. 15:14 To be clear, Dembele and Sissoko (his agent) didn't play Barca, they played Xavi. It is well known fact that after the shenanigans of December 2021 (refusing to renew on reduced wages to allow Barca to register Ferran) and January 2022 (refusing to leave Barca and opting to run down his contract to leave as a free agent) Mateu Alemany and Joan Laporta wanted Dembele out of the club, it's the entire reason Barca signed Raphinha. He was signed to replace Dembele. However, when Dembele's expected move to PSG didn't materialise last summer due to a Mbappe U-Turn, he turned back to barca asking to reopen contract negotiation talks and Xavi made it clear to Laporta and Alemany that they should re-sign Dembele. Xavi put a lot of trust in Dembele, even though Laporta and Alemany disagreed with that approach. So really, Xavi is the one that has been played. Otherwise, a well put together video as usual Adrian. As a barca fan, I have shared my 100% completely unemotional take 😂on this Dembele transfer over on my channel. Dembele came, he tried, he failed and now someone is still crazy enough to offer him twice what he was on at Barca. Let the man get paid, we might miss him maybe, but he's no Messi or Neymar so I'm confident that he will be replaced eventually. Low-key, I'm glad we no longer have to deal with a guy whose agent starts agonising for a move everytime he has a rough patch of form or who starts demanding an astronomical pay rise everytime he has his 2 or 3 world class showings. I now hope that Xavi can invest the same kind of trust he put into Dembele, into players like Raphinha, Abde, Fati and kids like Lamine Yamal who really want to be at the club.
It’s a blessing in disguise for dembele to leave, unreliable, at the most important period of the season, he gets injured with nothing less than 2months time frame
@@goku445 Dortmund didn't want to sell. Barça approached Dembele and told him to rebel and be a nuisance for BVB until they sold him. He refused to train and to play until he made his move to Barça.
He wasn't really "playing the board like a fiddle". The board didn't even want him to renew in the first place - Alemany was public about this before his contract expired and said he had little desire to continue mingling with Dembele's representatives. The only reason he did stick around (besides the fact that no one was offering him what he asked), is because Xavi had become so enamored with him that he begged the board/Alemany to sit down and negotiate. In the end, they basically gave whatever demand he asked for because they knew Xavi wasn't going to stop pressuring them to. Even after renewing, the board were in favour of straight up benching him so they could not only basically tell him to fck off but also so they could try to get a sale out of him by next January, but Xavi ignored it and made him a permanent starter. The only reason the Dembele saga continued for another year is solely because of Xavi. It ultimately works as a net positive for the club - He leaves for free in 2022 or you get one last (half) season out of him plus 50m in the books. It is best for everyone involved that they move on, as this move should've never happened in the first place.
I suppose Dembele was paid less than 25M in salary in this second contract, so Barcelona got a year of Dembele playing for free AND earned some money on him. Good job by Xavi. It does not repair the damage done by the first contract, but you cannot undo history.
Props to the man's agent, as for Barca sometimes you just gotta cut your losses and leave what appeared to be a somewhat toxic relationship. Even if your left with a few wounds, eventually they'll heal.
Dembele was the only player who genuinely made me excited to watch Barca games he has that Neymar flair , sad to see him go but maybe it’ll help Barca develop there all around attack more
As a Barca fan, all the power to Demebele. It’s not his fault that he had to have a pay cut because the club was run so poorly. So inserting a clause in his contract that would ensure 25 million in the bank is smart. I don’t think selling him was that bad, as although he was great, he was far too injury prone and inconsistent.
Yeah at least we’re getting something for him. After the first three years at Barcelona and being injured pretty much always, I already considered him a disastrous signing. Three years of paying him a wage for being injured. If anything, I think psg are dumb. Now they going to have two wingers injured during the season. Neymar and dembele. I bet you that he’ll be injured 3 games into the season.
It was either this or for free last summer so this was good, we won Liga where he helped a lot for a much lower salary. I really don't wish him to follow in Neymar's footsteps but can't stop thinking about that it could happen; i mean injuries, whistled and other stuff like that are very bad for a footballer.
It could be that the figure is what he worked out was his pay cut. He and his agent were going to get the money they felt they deserved rather than the contract he excepted just because the club is burning money.
He got a pay cut because he did not perform well, was injured a lot and showed bad character. Most clubs are smarted than Barcelona and do not want to burn their fingers on such a player. PSG is about as dumb as Barcelona.
He’s gotta be one of those guys with Uber tallent but just sees the game as fun and wants to enjoy life. Fair enough but I would be frustrated if I was a Barca fan.
Seeing everything from the refusal to train with BVB until now, Barca really only have themselves to blame. I could understand why the club persisted with him cuz giving up on a 100 mil player so quickly wasn’t on the table and the club were never gonna get any decent offers with his injury record. Where I’m more annoyed is that Xavi went against the club and fans to fully support Dembele only for him to leave the first chance he got. During that whole drama last year, that should’ve been the time to cut the losses and fully close off the disastrous Bartomeu era.
I am so happy he's finally gone! Maybe you could have mentioned that after the neymar deal bartolomeo spend 1 bilion euro to replace neymat on the left wing and did not sign a single left winger.
Neymar leaving single handedly destroyed Barcelona tbh. Of course there was still good players namely one Leo Messi, but Barcelona were way too trigger happy to get the new Neymar to fill the whole he had left. I think if anything they should’ve really just spent it on young players or never spend that Neymar money. And I really think Barcelona should’ve been way more specific on who to get or buy. They probably could’ve got way more value by tryna buy players from Italy or on expiring contracts.
This is good. Our financial situation doesn’t allow us to try and ask for higher prices for our players. The other clubs know our situation and they know we have to sell. The good news is Dembele transfer fee helps as well as his wages off the books too.
Clubs force players out when the player is still under contract. In this case, the club agreed a cheap release clause with him getting half of the fee. Wtf is to blame.
Crazy how his Barcelona career was kinda similar to Neymar career in PSG. And crazy how literally everyone involved in the Neymar PSG transfer lost. Neymar lost, Barcelona lost, every single player who should replace Neymar lost, football lost....
What Barca doesn’t get: if you convince a player to backstab his club, turn into a traitor and join them, then they are still buying a traitor that is capable of backstabbing them for the next club. No other club in europe uses player strikes or other dirty tactics like the Felix/Mendes interview like Barca does for transfers
Fully agreed with the first part but your second part is totally biased. Way Barca forced BVB to sell Dembele was shameful to say the least but Barca is NOT the only club who has done this Sterling (Liverpool to city), Kane (failed moved from Spurs), Carlos Teves and finally Neydamar (Barca to PiSsG) they all have forced their transferred in the similar, shameful, manner. Btw Felix's transfer has nothing to do with Barca it all Mendes and his stupidity thinking Barca would spent big amount.
Dembele is one of the reasons people can't take football serious anymore. This guy lacks character and morals. He forced his transfer to Dortmund and his transfer to Barca. Despite his talent he seems to be a miserable human being - just like Calhanoglu or Lucas Hernandez...
Barcelona seem to always be in the worst end of these mammoth deals. They signed Dembelé for 140 and couldn't even get 20% of this money back on top of the fact that they're struggling financially. But they've got no one to blame but themselves and the joke of the board that started with Bartomeu.
It was all bartomeu really. That amount we got for Neymar should’ve set the team up for the future. But I was lost in three bad signings. Coutiho, dembele, and Griezman. With all the being over 100m. But what hurt is the most was the big wages he was handing out like candy.
Yes but no. Someone had play the good cop and coach standing by his players regardless of financial situation is not out of the realm of managing the rock rides in football. What was the alternative choice for Xavi? He tried but Dembele is doing Dembele… we tried now we can say screw that guy… we will forget who he was in few days…
@@GothPaoki or let him walk for free (last year)… if you compare it that situation to this (this is $25 million dollars better decision) plus a league title. 💯 the only right decision anyone could have taken and hoped they could have convinced him to stay… I don’t see too much there… it wasn’t meant to be wrong guy but right approach or only approach left because everyone knew about Barca’s finances
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Dembele was never a real barca player. One of the last bartomeu disaster to finally leave the club. And as for psg if they enjoy neymar their gonna love dembele
Barcelona post Pep and Luis Enrique (inc Man Utd post SAF) have been the poster child of exactly how not to run a big club. Most of their transfers since 2016/17 have been an absolute disaster
Dembele's transfer was wrong since the very beginning. They signed a RW to replace Neymar, a LW. I remember what happened when Dembele joined, Suarez was moved to the left, Messi played up front with Dembele on the right. This made no sense. And then he got injured and Barcelona had to get some other LW. I am very relieved that he is gone. I never saw anything special in him. He is good for highlights but can't win you games.
If I were Naser al khelaifi I would have bought the whole team who decides to buy the young players for Dortmund instead of buying expensive star footballers.
As a Barça fan I never liked dembele. Since day one he’s hasn’t been at Barça level. He’s an overrated player and has nothing on his belt to prove that he’s a top player. Just injuries every single season and when the CL comes around he disappears.
i still use dembele in career modes because he is a good player, irl lets be honest not being picked weeks on end then being expected to perform like messi or neymar just shows how bad barca really are behind the scenes
I’m a Culer and a pretty lenient one at that. But even I’ll say Dembélè played better off the pitch than on it. If he had the same kind of tenacity in-game that he shows when quibbling for money in the office, he’d have maybe been worth the trouble. But here goes another cursed #11. Good riddance.
Dembele has always been a mercenary . It sucks we are only getting 25 mil but not sad to see him go. He will be hard to replace so i hope we can make up the goals
@@zackgalante4899 we never wanted to tbh, then xavi would have excluded him completly from the sporting project if he was not important...xavi considered him as a untouchable ironically...
We were going to lose him for nothing and Dembele couldn’t find a club so he needed to buy time without compromising his future propositions…(so well done!) Xavi got some performances that led to major titles and Barca was glad to have him onboard for less salary when we needed the most. At the end Barca wanted to loyalty from Dembele and there is none. management get rid of players all the time and companies loses top performers and this is no different… as a fan Dembele showed no love and will receive none! Chapter closed!!!
Maaan, as a Madrid fan I really feel for Barca, what a mess there Board is, all rivalries aside, It's better to see Barcelona thrive rather than, some OIL and Corruption backed MAN City or PSG
The way Barcelona handled this was awful. It made them seem like a club run by amateurs. Barcelona and Xavi personally took a gamble with a player they already knew had problematic behaviour and they lost. They believed in him, he didn't believe in them. The contract negotiations were also handled incredibly stupid. The player wanted to leave for psg and when he couldn't simple because of circumstances on psgs side they still gave him the bag and also added incredibly bad clauses that would allow him not only to leave easily but also take a big portion of the money of the release clause.
@@goku445 bro the video is about dembeles situation and his deception towards Barca. Bartomeu wasn't part of his contract renewal. Laporta and xavi were the suckers in this case
He has moments of brilliance but never reached his potential. Wouldn’t be surprised if he gets an injury before he even gets to play 😭😂 and just ends up being another hazard
As a barca fan this is the best thing that happened to us since he came to barca. Finally we have an opportunity to sign or play someone unproven, which would not be possible with him staying in hospital wing of barca.
Barcelona Will most likely get more like 35m and not 25, Also add in that he played for cheap an entire season. He played for barcelona many seasons even if he was injured a lot. Barcelona got back some of their investment. Wish him the best at psg and barcelona Will most likely come out of this as an improved team with allemany finding a better solution.
As a Barca fan , I blame my club's management and corruption for 70% . BUT at the same time I will blame Dembele for 30% . It's not a coincidence that Dembele and PSG decided for this deal AFTER only around a month of Messi got to Inter Miami. If he left 1 month ago barca had a chance for Messi. They waited and stabbed when it was most shattering for Barca. And Rabona 10:16 that was not confusing. his initial talk with PSG didn't go through for their director change. So without any other lucrative offer Dembele re-signed with barca for his next oppertunity.
Barca did a good thing for my opinion, I still remember how barca didn’t want to renew his contract before due to financial crisis and poorly performance of this player. So I think that’s why the clause is minimal only 50millions release clause. Xavi literally saved his career in barca.
Good riddance…. He should have left a few years ago .. 6 years at Barca and he did nothing worth mentioning… always injured… you could never rely on him … not a single big match in which you could say “yeah we won this game because of him”
As a Barca Fan, i am so damn sure that if Mateu Alemany was in charge of the world record fee that we received for Neymar back then, the club would’ve taken a completely different direction, honestly, it would’ve been the best 220 million ever spent!
Dembele is a very dangerous player, and as a Real Madrid fan, who is concerned about or LBs... I am quite relieved if Dembele goes. Bad loss for Barcelona.
Nothing wrong with Dembele going to PSG. But if it was intended beforehand, it is deceitful from him not the leave early as it probably prevented Barca from acquiring Messi, Arda Guller etc (it also seems purposeful from PSG). Not to mention the faith Xavi has placed on him by altering the whole Barcelona game to play to his strength (1V1 dribbling). The system was so much tailored to Dembele that Raphinha struggled heavily when he had to play that role.
Barca gave him a lot more leeway than most players. A big part of it is how he spent his time away from the game and clearly wasn’t giving his all to get back on the pitch.
Per Javi Miguel, Dembele told Xavi: "I want to keep winning titles, but in a healthier environment." Who is going to tell him what a clown club PiSsG is? And those French fans won't back him and his theatrics for like Barca fans did season after season.
I agree with you. I think it's pretty obvious this was the plan all along. Agree to a pay cut to get 25M€ next summer. He must've renewed or he would leave for free, leaving him with nothing.
Always feels good to see Barca get finessed but this one is extra satisfying considering he’s been by far their biggest attacking threat. I don’t blame him for leaving a sinking ship either
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The lesson to learn of this is not to overspend on a unproven player, if Barca had waited a season they could have gotten him at a way lower price
It's easier said than done. With Newmar gone they needed a big move to make fans forget Neymar and with 222 Million all the clubs were going to sell expensive in order to gasp some of that money.
Psg created a necesity and a handicap to Barca in one move.
Nah. Barto would have found a way to overpay.
@@allemon93who tf is newmar?
They should have payed 200 million in depth and used the rest towards the next summer. They already had a great team and could have taken advantage of young talents. Teams always feel this need to overspend because others do the same.
Not really. Dembele treated BVB really badly by disappearing. Nobody knew where he was when he had already flown to Barcelona without permission. Then he tried to bully BVB into letting him go by refusing to return and play for them again.
The stance from Dortmund was then communicated really clearly. There were only 2 options:
- Barca pay us all the moneys
- We make an example and ban him from the first team for the remainder of his contract
So there was no way Barca would've had him any cheaper after that.
Imo that is when Barca should've backed out of the deal. Dembele had already shown his personality at that point, spending all the money on a known rotten apple is what got them in this whole saga.
It is astonishing how Barcelona receiving a world record transfer fee basically crippled them. Some of the people in charge should not be legally allowed to run a newspaper kiosk.
Yea, gladly they are gone now, the neymar transfere also ruined football as a whole, psg buying him for 225 mil showed the whole world that they can milk so much money, and now you have players like Maguire who is absolutely garbage, and he was sold for 80+million...
Bartomeu also somewhat seemingly trying to take the club down with him in order to get himself re-elected after the next presidential term
"Vamos Dembele" as the ambulance drives out😂😂😂😂😅
I was laughing so hard 😂😂
As a Barça fan, the worst part isn't that we're only getting 25M, or that for the past 6 years he's done little to nothing, is that when he was starting to play good, to get on well with the squad and he got a coach that would die for him in Xavi he decides to cash out to PSG. It's honestly baffling.
I hope Raphinha improves upon his good first season or that Abde, Fati or Ferrán Torres step up big time
Yep. I didn't see it coming. He looked happy where he was... And Barça's sporting project looked more promising than PSG's.
@@goku445Money talks
@@gennymanun4881Let's just say money talks and he's going to walk
@@gennymanun4881 Dembele had a massive offer from Saudia which he rejected.
Dude come on no one care about loyalty if your club can't even give him pay rise and yet cut his salary...If we put ourself in his situation, I will jump to PSG in heartbeat as Barca are sh1thole financially...
Honestly what I miss in the video is the horrendous way he left BVB. When he treated the club like that, BVB took the stance of '140 million or he'll go to our reserve team to kill his career'. That took away all of Barca's negotiating room, as it became a matter of principle for BVB.
After that whole debacle, imo Barca should've backed out. I mean he already showed his terrible personality before joining them, everything after is then completely on them. They knew and got him anyways.
@@sefyanabdalla3801they sign a contract for a certain amount of years.... no player is "held against their will"
@@sefyanabdalla3801but do you really think Dembele asked out at BVB and they flipped out and made such statements? I mean Bellingham, Haaland, Sancho, Dembele, Borussia is more than accustomed to selling their top players for top money. This had to be something else
that's how Barcelona work in transfer, they made the player unsettle make them force a move.
And now you get what sow.
@@sefyanabdalla3801 He signed a contract an year before. Even if he wanted his dream move, the temper tantrum and terrible behaviour is that of a child. not a working professional. BVB just gave him his disrespect back
Didn’t he do sth similiar when he made his move from rennes to Dortmund as well?
How nobody saw that coming is beyond me
Man how things have changed in barca. 10 years ago we spoke about barca like it was the perfect footballing machine, developing great prospects that felt a deep connection with the club. It all changed in the mid 2010s when they started hiring lethal mercenaries who would stab them in the back for a better deal.
times change
@@MrKrewie it’s not that, barcelona was probably one of the most valuable and best clubs in the world during that time, of course people wanted to get some money into their pockets
Lets hope barca are back on track with creating talents from la masia. I am a madrid fan but it is obvious which academy creates the best talents
Bartolomeu sank this club, 20+players bought, salaries like no other, 1 billion in debt, a sporting project very lame by Barcelona's standards and then covid struck. This was recipe for disaster and this only because Rosell was unfairly charged by Madrid courts as in 5 out of 6 charges(and 1.5 years in prison) he has been found not guilty by now. Barcelona have had just won Champions League with Bartolomeu having just taking over from Rosell(who built a great team) who resigned and then election were to happen and nobody in the club could vote against a president who just won Champions League albeit he had been president for only 6 months. Then he sank the club, im so sorry for that, absolutely abyssal performance as a club president from Bartolomeu.
I honestly think we shouldn’t have won the treble 2015 🤦♂️
As a Barca fan I'm a bit gutted, as Xavi fought for him from the moment he came in and even had Dembele in the best form of his entire Barca career tbh.. most assists in La Liga in 21/22 and he was crucial for us last season despite injuries.
It shows also the influence agents have on their players' decision making. I always thought Dembele was one of the most electric and talented wingers I've ever seen... I think if he improved his decision making he'd have had world class stats. Hopefully the 16yo Yamal can take the reigns because I have little faith in Raphinha
Raphinha is a decent player but he's so one footed that if he could he'll probably walk on one foot. But he's very hard worker, great presser and sacrifices defensively for the team. Lamine will be a better player than Dembele if everything goes according to PLAN, which is rarely the case. His technical abilities and game understanding is beyond his age. For all the crazy talent Dembele has, until recently his brain was slower than his body.
Why exactly are you gutted? … he wasn’t Messi , Neymar , Suarez, Ronaldinho,Rivaldo , Judas Figo, Ronaldo, Romario…. He was a waste of time and money .. I am glad he is going
I agree
@@catalinpopa2005Agreed a shitter who used up our money that would've been put in better use.
I feel for Xavi. He was the only one last year who truly wanted to keep him (Dembele was getting whistled by the home fans in winter 2021-spring 2022). He always trusted him and gave him his full support and said many times publically how he thinks he is one of the best in the world. He’s still relatively new as a manager so this is a learning experience but I still feel for him a bit
No idea how Xavi feels personally about Dembele leaving, but Xavi very certainly did an excellent job at dealing with him.
@farazhahzad9650 to be fair Dembele also paid Xavi back with his performance that won Barca the league last season. Barca was to blame for the crazy transfer to get Dembele in the first place. With such high transfer, his agents will obviously demand a salary that reflects it.
@@ShinkiroZeroHe didn't paid shit back, incredibly trash player that gets injured always. We won the league because of our defense and ter Stegen hence the clean sheet record, not to mention Lewandowski doing Lewa things, Dembele can get the fuck out the club thank God.
@@ShinkiroZeroPerformances? Lol. He was out for four months. Raphinha was more essential in the title run. Don't make me laugh
@@m0ntypth0n mentally challenged individual do tend to laugh a lot. You are the one who compared Dembele with Raphinha. Where did I ever mentioned Dembele being the most important player in their run in? It would have been Lewandowski more so than Raphinha if to single out a specific player for last season.
I love the dude but you have a point, his departure was inevitable. Better sooner than later, although most of us are still shook
Ik most barca fans like to make fun of him and hate him now, but for me personally he is one of my favorite players to watch, he is so incredibly skilled and talented. Wish him nothing but the best with psg and hope he can stay healthy.
As a Zimbabwean you cannot believe how happy it makes to see you wearing a Highlanders shirts n giving then the spotlight thanks for the 🇿🇼❤️❤️🔥💯
That Pique quote was ironic as he later admitted to not sleeping much and partying often. Strange he chose to publicly speak poorly of Dembele's lifestyle. Bad leader.
Lmao, atleast Pique did it later in his career damn near over, Dembele was useless his whole career 😂
I am disappointed, but at the same time genuinely excited that we don't have to deal with him and Moussa Snakesoko's saga anymore.
Time to focus on Lamine Yamal!
Dembele has absolutely had Barca's pants down here 🤣
so happy that he left finally xavi can take his hands out of his pants he was treating him like a irreplaceable player lol
He's been doing that for years considering how much they payed him to be absolutely useless.
14:19 Idk if I would say 230k p/w for Dembele was a great deal. When you consider that Saka is on 195k p/w, Martinelli is on 180k p/w, Lewis Diaz is on 55k p/w and Bernardo Silva is on 150k p/w. That new contract Barca were going to offer Dembele would have been severely over paying for someone who always delivers a mixed bag of performances on the foundation of guaranteed injury lay-offs.
15:14 To be clear, Dembele and Sissoko (his agent) didn't play Barca, they played Xavi. It is well known fact that after the shenanigans of December 2021 (refusing to renew on reduced wages to allow Barca to register Ferran) and January 2022 (refusing to leave Barca and opting to run down his contract to leave as a free agent) Mateu Alemany and Joan Laporta wanted Dembele out of the club, it's the entire reason Barca signed Raphinha. He was signed to replace Dembele. However, when Dembele's expected move to PSG didn't materialise last summer due to a Mbappe U-Turn, he turned back to barca asking to reopen contract negotiation talks and Xavi made it clear to Laporta and Alemany that they should re-sign Dembele. Xavi put a lot of trust in Dembele, even though Laporta and Alemany disagreed with that approach. So really, Xavi is the one that has been played.
Otherwise, a well put together video as usual Adrian. As a barca fan, I have shared my 100% completely unemotional take 😂on this Dembele transfer over on my channel. Dembele came, he tried, he failed and now someone is still crazy enough to offer him twice what he was on at Barca. Let the man get paid, we might miss him maybe, but he's no Messi or Neymar so I'm confident that he will be replaced eventually. Low-key, I'm glad we no longer have to deal with a guy whose agent starts agonising for a move everytime he has a rough patch of form or who starts demanding an astronomical pay rise everytime he has his 2 or 3 world class showings. I now hope that Xavi can invest the same kind of trust he put into Dembele, into players like Raphinha, Abde, Fati and kids like Lamine Yamal who really want to be at the club.
It’s a blessing in disguise for dembele to leave, unreliable, at the most important period of the season, he gets injured with nothing less than 2months time frame
Shout out, all the way from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 ..... Bosso!!! Highlander!!! Wow! I'm shocked. Never expected 😂
After the horrendous way in which he left BVB, I don't feel bad for Barça getting finessed like this.
Was Barça responsible?
@@goku445 Dortmund didn't want to sell. Barça approached Dembele and told him to rebel and be a nuisance for BVB until they sold him. He refused to train and to play until he made his move to Barça.
It’s a karma. As a dortmund fan ill just say this, he was a good riddance.
@@TheDrex1988 Well, that's because he wanted to leave.
blud is mad
He wasn't really "playing the board like a fiddle". The board didn't even want him to renew in the first place - Alemany was public about this before his contract expired and said he had little desire to continue mingling with Dembele's representatives. The only reason he did stick around (besides the fact that no one was offering him what he asked), is because Xavi had become so enamored with him that he begged the board/Alemany to sit down and negotiate. In the end, they basically gave whatever demand he asked for because they knew Xavi wasn't going to stop pressuring them to. Even after renewing, the board were in favour of straight up benching him so they could not only basically tell him to fck off but also so they could try to get a sale out of him by next January, but Xavi ignored it and made him a permanent starter. The only reason the Dembele saga continued for another year is solely because of Xavi. It ultimately works as a net positive for the club - He leaves for free in 2022 or you get one last (half) season out of him plus 50m in the books. It is best for everyone involved that they move on, as this move should've never happened in the first place.
True true
I suppose Dembele was paid less than 25M in salary in this second contract, so Barcelona got a year of Dembele playing for free AND earned some money on him. Good job by Xavi. It does not repair the damage done by the first contract, but you cannot undo history.
The way bortameu used 220 million of Neymar was bizarre !!! Laporta in his place could have done wonders with that money!
Laporta is clear!
Props to the man's agent, as for Barca sometimes you just gotta cut your losses and leave what appeared to be a somewhat toxic relationship. Even if your left with a few wounds, eventually they'll heal.
bro was in the hospital 24/7😂
Somehow Neymar going to psg affected everyone negatively except for mbappe. Barcelona had never been the same since msn broke up
Dembele was the only player who genuinely made me excited to watch Barca games he has that Neymar flair , sad to see him go but maybe it’ll help Barca develop there all around attack more
He DOES NOT have that Neymar Flair
BS
@@ousmansano21 nah his dribble is insane he carried Barca when they were at their worst
@@bankrolledgar1969 carried? Bro had a good half season in 2021/22 and that’s it for 6 years stfu clown
@@bankrolledgar1969 He also won Liverpool the Champ[ions League with his poor finishing.
As a Barca fan, all the power to Demebele. It’s not his fault that he had to have a pay cut because the club was run so poorly. So inserting a clause in his contract that would ensure 25 million in the bank is smart. I don’t think selling him was that bad, as although he was great, he was far too injury prone and inconsistent.
Yeah at least we’re getting something for him. After the first three years at Barcelona and being injured pretty much always, I already considered him a disastrous signing. Three years of paying him a wage for being injured. If anything, I think psg are dumb. Now they going to have two wingers injured during the season. Neymar and dembele. I bet you that he’ll be injured 3 games into the season.
It was either this or for free last summer so this was good, we won Liga where he helped a lot for a much lower salary. I really don't wish him to follow in Neymar's footsteps but can't stop thinking about that it could happen; i mean injuries, whistled and other stuff like that are very bad for a footballer.
It could be that the figure is what he worked out was his pay cut. He and his agent were going to get the money they felt they deserved rather than the contract he excepted just because the club is burning money.
@@morlath4767bruhh he was already earning sht loads of money from Barca and he was enjoying his time at the hospital not playing 😂
He got a pay cut because he did not perform well, was injured a lot and showed bad character. Most clubs are smarted than Barcelona and do not want to burn their fingers on such a player. PSG is about as dumb as Barcelona.
He’s gotta be one of those guys with Uber tallent but just sees the game as fun and wants to enjoy life. Fair enough but I would be frustrated if I was a Barca fan.
Seeing everything from the refusal to train with BVB until now, Barca really only have themselves to blame. I could understand why the club persisted with him cuz giving up on a 100 mil player so quickly wasn’t on the table and the club were never gonna get any decent offers with his injury record. Where I’m more annoyed is that Xavi went against the club and fans to fully support Dembele only for him to leave the first chance he got. During that whole drama last year, that should’ve been the time to cut the losses and fully close off the disastrous Bartomeu era.
I am so happy he's finally gone! Maybe you could have mentioned that after the neymar deal bartolomeo spend 1 bilion euro to replace neymat on the left wing and did not sign a single left winger.
Neymar leaving single handedly destroyed Barcelona tbh. Of course there was still good players namely one Leo Messi, but Barcelona were way too trigger happy to get the new Neymar to fill the whole he had left. I think if anything they should’ve really just spent it on young players or never spend that Neymar money. And I really think Barcelona should’ve been way more specific on who to get or buy. They probably could’ve got way more value by tryna buy players from Italy or on expiring contracts.
Yeah, miss my boy, Neymar. sadly things haven't gone his ways either, if only he controlled his ego and stayed in the club he would've won more.
upon landing in paris a slight breeze struck dembele's hamstrings and will now miss *6 months* due to injury...
This is good. Our financial situation doesn’t allow us to try and ask for higher prices for our players. The other clubs know our situation and they know we have to sell. The good news is Dembele transfer fee helps as well as his wages off the books too.
Clubs force players out when the player is still under contract. In this case, the club agreed a cheap release clause with him getting half of the fee. Wtf is to blame.
Crazy how his Barcelona career was kinda similar to Neymar career in PSG. And crazy how literally everyone involved in the Neymar PSG transfer lost. Neymar lost, Barcelona lost, every single player who should replace Neymar lost, football lost....
What Barca doesn’t get: if you convince a player to backstab his club, turn into a traitor and join them, then they are still buying a traitor that is capable of backstabbing them for the next club.
No other club in europe uses player strikes or other dirty tactics like the Felix/Mendes interview like Barca does for transfers
Fully agreed with the first part but your second part is totally biased.
Way Barca forced BVB to sell Dembele was shameful to say the least but Barca is NOT the only club who has done this Sterling (Liverpool to city), Kane (failed moved from Spurs), Carlos Teves and finally Neydamar (Barca to PiSsG) they all have forced their transferred in the similar, shameful, manner. Btw Felix's transfer has nothing to do with Barca it all Mendes and his stupidity thinking Barca would spent big amount.
Literally Bayern and the Kane saga but hey let’s cheery pick
There's a bunch of clubs doing it just in this summer season. You live in another universe if you think like that.
Keep talking shit boy, Barca bigger than whatever shit club you support
Just another example of Bartomeu’s horrendous financial mismanagement
Dembele really finessed Barca😂 Xavi is getting ready to pull another financial lever as we speak😂
Dembele is one of the reasons people can't take football serious anymore. This guy lacks character and morals. He forced his transfer to Dortmund and his transfer to Barca. Despite his talent he seems to be a miserable human being - just like Calhanoglu or Lucas Hernandez...
A highlanders kit wow as a Zimbabwean I'm so happy
Thank you rabona you made my day
Where did you buy it
Xavi is the only one that's crying Barca fans are happy no more Dembulance 😂
There is no confusion about Dembele 's contract. Barcelona is trying to renege on their world
As a Zimbabwean I can confirm that the rivalry between Highlanders and their rivals Dynamos is the Zimbabwean equivalent of El Classico
Barcelona seem to always be in the worst end of these mammoth deals. They signed Dembelé for 140 and couldn't even get 20% of this money back on top of the fact that they're struggling financially.
But they've got no one to blame but themselves and the joke of the board that started with Bartomeu.
It was all bartomeu really. That amount we got for Neymar should’ve set the team up for the future. But I was lost in three bad signings. Coutiho, dembele, and Griezman. With all the being over 100m. But what hurt is the most was the big wages he was handing out like candy.
As a Barca fan, I’m glad he is gone. I don’t think he’s as good as people think and he was injured for most of the time.
Xavi trusted the wrong guy. He needs to learn as well
Yes but no. Someone had play the good cop and coach standing by his players regardless of financial situation is not out of the realm of managing the rock rides in football. What was the alternative choice for Xavi? He tried but Dembele is doing Dembele… we tried now we can say screw that guy… we will forget who he was in few days…
He personally insisted they do everything to keep dembele. It's 100 percent his fault as well.
@@GothPaoki or let him walk for free (last year)… if you compare it that situation to this (this is $25 million dollars better decision) plus a league title. 💯 the only right decision anyone could have taken and hoped they could have convinced him to stay… I don’t see too much there… it wasn’t meant to be wrong guy but right approach or only approach left because everyone knew about Barca’s finances
I don't often comment on videos and for no particular reason associated to this specific video, I just wanted to say that I absolutely fucking love this channel, its so refreshing to get genuinely insightful and interesting content about football. In this time of nonsense hype, dumb hot takes and 'banter' Thanks Adrian
Dembele was never a real barca player. One of the last bartomeu disaster to finally leave the club. And as for psg if they enjoy neymar their gonna love dembele
Barcelona post Pep and Luis Enrique (inc Man Utd post SAF) have been the poster child of exactly how not to run a big club. Most of their transfers since 2016/17 have been an absolute disaster
Dembele's transfer was wrong since the very beginning. They signed a RW to replace Neymar, a LW. I remember what happened when Dembele joined, Suarez was moved to the left, Messi played up front with Dembele on the right. This made no sense. And then he got injured and Barcelona had to get some other LW.
I am very relieved that he is gone. I never saw anything special in him. He is good for highlights but can't win you games.
If I were Naser al khelaifi I would have bought the whole team who decides to buy the young players for Dortmund instead of buying expensive star footballers.
Holy hell, his agent is an absolute baller. If I was dembele, I'd be giving him half of that 25 mil hahaha
Lol he deserved it , sold a cripple
and he's joining PSG great work I think that's the perfect club for him lol
Must be the same guy that represents Choupo Moting he could sell snow to an eskimo.
9:50 “vamos jordi!!! Vamos 🚑demeble🚑 “ 😂😂😂
As a Barça fan I never liked dembele. Since day one he’s hasn’t been at Barça level. He’s an overrated player and has nothing on his belt to prove that he’s a top player. Just injuries every single season and when the CL comes around he disappears.
Paris' hospital will be filled with dembele,neymar and lucas oh is verrati still there 😂
As a Zimbabwean living in Canada, seeing that shirt was heart warming 🙂
I'm.a dynamos fan but that Bosso kit is fire (I'm in Dubai)
Bosso
@@kennethdzengedza8978 Hope you are doing well brother. Take care of yourself 😊
Bosso woye. Love it when i meet vana vekumusha on this platform, good on you lads
i still use dembele in career modes because he is a good player, irl lets be honest not being picked weeks on end then being expected to perform like messi or neymar just shows how bad barca really are behind the scenes
Mungkin yg terbaik menurutnya jika dia pinda lebih baik dari pada tetp di barca,pasti punya alasan,sehat dll ya OusmaNe❤
I’m a Culer and a pretty lenient one at that. But even I’ll say Dembélè played better off the pitch than on it. If he had the same kind of tenacity in-game that he shows when quibbling for money in the office, he’d have maybe been worth the trouble. But here goes another cursed #11. Good riddance.
Honestly Barca have themselves to blame. They agreed to the clause
Thanks for the sangalo. Great to see some less know countries being highlighted
Dembele replaced both Neymar and Messi.....don't think PSG fans will be as supporting as barca fans though if he's injured or struggles.....
Dembele has always been a mercenary . It sucks we are only getting 25 mil but not sad to see him go. He will be hard to replace so i hope we can make up the goals
As a Barça fan we can only blame ourselves
Cry u barka dogs cry some more. Every damn yr barka tried to sell him & now that he leaves” it's oh my god! how can he do us this”
@@zackgalante4899 😹
@@zackgalante4899mad Madrid fan
@@zackgalante4899bro he just said we can only blame themselves
@@zackgalante4899 we never wanted to tbh, then xavi would have excluded him completly from the sporting project if he was not important...xavi considered him as a untouchable ironically...
We were going to lose him for nothing and Dembele couldn’t find a club so he needed to buy time without compromising his future propositions…(so well done!) Xavi got some performances that led to major titles and Barca was glad to have him onboard for less salary when we needed the most. At the end Barca wanted to loyalty from Dembele and there is none. management get rid of players all the time and companies loses top performers and this is no different… as a fan Dembele showed no love and will receive none! Chapter closed!!!
Maaan, as a Madrid fan I really feel for Barca, what a mess there Board is, all rivalries aside, It's better to see Barcelona thrive rather than, some OIL and Corruption backed MAN City or PSG
Bartomeu board was bad laporta is doing everything to fix the mess that bartomeu created
Keep on the great work! Your football essays are amazing
The way Barcelona handled this was awful. It made them seem like a club run by amateurs.
Barcelona and Xavi personally took a gamble with a player they already knew had problematic behaviour and they lost. They believed in him, he didn't believe in them.
The contract negotiations were also handled incredibly stupid. The player wanted to leave for psg and when he couldn't simple because of circumstances on psgs side they still gave him the bag and also added incredibly bad clauses that would allow him not only to leave easily but also take a big portion of the money of the release clause.
No, Bartomeu is a traitor. He never worked in the club's interest.
@@goku445 i don't see how's that relevant to my comment
@@GothPaoki You said "barcelona" in which Bartomeu wasn't part of. He bought terrible players for way too high.
@@goku445 bro the video is about dembeles situation and his deception towards Barca. Bartomeu wasn't part of his contract renewal. Laporta and xavi were the suckers in this case
@@GothPaoki True. The renewal was a mistake but Barça was in a tough situation.
Watch him prove you wrong and never get injured again 🤣🤣🙌🏾
Man Dembele really played Barça, unbelievable man.
he played Xavi
@@ARJUN-SS potato, potato. 🤷♀️
@@dvdv8197 Alemany didn't want him to stay but Xavi pushed for the renewal potato , tomato lol
@@ARJUN-SS 😅😂
@@ARJUN-SS The renewal earned Barcelona a couple of millions (plus a year or football by Dembele). Not bad at all.
He has moments of brilliance but never reached his potential. Wouldn’t be surprised if he gets an injury before he even gets to play 😭😂 and just ends up being another hazard
I swear you never make any good videos about Barca
That Sangalo sponsors is one of the coolest sponsors I’ve ever seen on UA-cam lol. Very unique, I’m going to see if they have any Ghanaian kits.
As a barca fan this is the best thing that happened to us since he came to barca. Finally we have an opportunity to sign or play someone unproven, which would not be possible with him staying in hospital wing of barca.
Whatever makes you sleep at night
Love how you are wearing a teen from home, im a dynamos fan tho(rivals)
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Barcelona Will most likely get more like 35m and not 25, Also add in that he played for cheap an entire season. He played for barcelona many seasons even if he was injured a lot. Barcelona got back some of their investment. Wish him the best at psg and barcelona Will most likely come out of this as an improved team with allemany finding a better solution.
I am from Zimbabwe and from the city where highlanders comes from ❤😇 you are the man 🙏🏾💪🏽🔥
Wtf is a private clause? Laporta has been fooled😭
Yooo shout out to Adrian for wearing one of my country's biggest clubs' shirt!!
As a Barca fan , I blame my club's management and corruption for 70% . BUT at the same time I will blame Dembele for 30% . It's not a coincidence that Dembele and PSG decided for this deal AFTER only around a month of Messi got to Inter Miami. If he left 1 month ago barca had a chance for Messi. They waited and stabbed when it was most shattering for Barca.
And Rabona 10:16 that was not confusing. his initial talk with PSG didn't go through for their director change. So without any other lucrative offer Dembele re-signed with barca for his next oppertunity.
🧂 😂
Actually Messi didn’t want to come back because he didn’t want players to do what you wanted from Dembele. Force them out for his return.
Barca did a good thing for my opinion, I still remember how barca didn’t want to renew his contract before due to financial crisis and poorly performance of this player.
So I think that’s why the clause is minimal only 50millions release clause. Xavi literally saved his career in barca.
Good riddance…. He should have left a few years ago .. 6 years at Barca and he did nothing worth mentioning… always injured… you could never rely on him … not a single big match in which you could say “yeah we won this game because of him”
As a Barca Fan, i am so damn sure that if Mateu Alemany was in charge of the world record fee that we received for Neymar back then, the club would’ve taken a completely different direction, honestly, it would’ve been the best 220 million ever spent!
Dembele is a very dangerous player, and as a Real Madrid fan, who is concerned about or LBs... I am quite relieved if Dembele goes. Bad loss for Barcelona.
Don’t worry there are two other players waiting who might take that dembele role as the creative spark.
Fast, can attack from both wings. I think the Neymar comparisons were unfair as well
As barca fan i knew karma will be back just after barca signed Dembele
Nothing wrong with Dembele going to PSG. But if it was intended beforehand, it is deceitful from him not the leave early as it probably prevented Barca from acquiring Messi, Arda Guller etc (it also seems purposeful from PSG). Not to mention the faith Xavi has placed on him by altering the whole Barcelona game to play to his strength (1V1 dribbling). The system was so much tailored to Dembele that Raphinha struggled heavily when he had to play that role.
Barca gave him a lot more leeway than most players. A big part of it is how he spent his time away from the game and clearly wasn’t giving his all to get back on the pitch.
I'm not sure Laporta's board has learnt anything from Bartomeu's mistakes. Wow😮
laporta isn't giving anyone unbelievable wages like Fartomeu
Per Javi Miguel, Dembele told Xavi: "I want to keep winning titles, but in a healthier environment."
Who is going to tell him what a clown club PiSsG is? And those French fans won't back him and his theatrics for like Barca fans did season after season.
I agree with you. I think it's pretty obvious this was the plan all along. Agree to a pay cut to get 25M€ next summer. He must've renewed or he would leave for free, leaving him with nothing.
Always feels good to see Barca get finessed but this one is extra satisfying considering he’s been by far their biggest attacking threat. I don’t blame him for leaving a sinking ship either
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Watching from Zimbabwe (great to see you rocking the highlanders` kit). Kinda feel bad for Xavi and PSG`s medical staff
As a barca fan. I am happy dembele is leaving.
Shout out from Zimbabwe!!
PSG and Dembele truly deserves one another :)
Shouts to Dembele’s agent. Like they leveraged the heck out of that deal.
as a cule, I’ve never been so relieved for a transfer to be done 🤣
As a Barca fan, yes, we goofed this renewal, but the fact that he’s going to PSG… like cmon man… pick another club, not a business.
Neymar dropping deep to create and dembele passing drilling. Man , this makes mbappe jobs easier
Kylian is probably not going to be there lol
Not surprisingly after what he did with BvB 🤷🏽
Tough luck for xavi, you can see what he's trying to build. A shame that he's losing such a viable attack option.