Barcelona and Ousmane Dembele will continue their relationship beyond next season which means Arsenal cannot sign the Frenchman this summer.
He has been a long-term target of the Gunners and as he entered the last months of his current deal, Arsenal had hoped to complete a move for him.
Dembele looked set to leave Catalunya for a cheap fee as he couldn’t reach an agreement with Barca over an extension.
But Todofichajes says the Spaniards remain keen to sell him instead of losing him for nothing next summer.
The plan was to freeze him out of the first-team picture if he didn’t sign a new deal.
But that would be bad for both the club and the player and they have now agreed to continue their relationship.
The report says his deal would be extended so that Barca can earn some money from his sale next summer.
This development would come as a transfer blow for Arsenal who have had a fine summer transfer window so far.
It remains unclear if Barca would accept a big-money offer for him in this transfer window.
If that were to be possible, Arsenal might still struggle to sign him unless they offload some of their current options.
Who said we wanted him🤔🤔
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I think it may be easier for the author’s of these articles to just list the players we aren’t linked with in global football …will be less work!
👍 Good suggestion!
Ah what a pity. Down to our last 999 targets then…
guy, maybe they should buy a dart board for Edu’s office. If he breaks it down to two options they could buy him some daisies. As he breaks each petal off he can say “this player Arsenal can afford and he wants to come to the Emirates – yes, no, yes, no…………?