Dembelé has a dead in the closet (and Barça covers it, but it smells very bad)

  

Bartomeu silences the embarrassing operation that could close and let go

Roller coaster. The performance of Ousmane Dembelé during his first season at Barça  has been extremely irregular. The French forward offers one of lime and one of sand. 

Able to sign masterful performances, such as against Villarreal , and to score goals like the one he scored in South Africa , he has also left ungrateful memories against Getafe or Levante . 

The lack of continuity he has had with Ernesto Valverde has him in the quagmire. Four months of injury due to injury as soon as he arrived and a new injury a month later clearly slowed down his progression. And maybe something more. 

During the last months the possibility of Dembelé going to the World Cup with France has been in danger . The Gala selection has very talented strikers such as Griezmann  and  Mbappé , foreseeable starting duo in attack. 

But there are many others who aspired to have a place: Ben Yedder, Lacazette, Martial, Payet and Coman . Too many options for  Deschamps  that, finally, has given an opportunity to the crack of Barçaleaving out the aforementioned.

Payet's injury in the final of the Europa League has left him out, opening the doors to  Dembelé , although the coach keeps Kingsley Coman , forward of Bayern , and Anthony Martial , of United , on reserve. 

Neither Barça Lucas Digne or Rabiot , of PSG , as well as the aforementioned Ben Yedder ( Sevilla ) are in the priority plans of the coach . So Dembelé  can be found with a song in his teeth. 

The question that all are asked in BCN

Meanwhile, in Barcelona many ask a question: Why did the  club  threw the house out the window to hire  Ousmane Dembelé ?  Who said that the Frenchman is the crack the club needs?

Issues difficult to answer Dembelé  is a great player, like the Barça fans  ,  but there are many connoisseurs who say that it is far from costing  145  million euros.

In  Europe there  have been numerous voices that question this signing. Especially, if you consider that it meant giving up top players like  Dybala  or, above all,  Kylian  Mbappé.

The  club  could have signed the new mate  Neymar  in the  PSG  by a similar amount which it paid to  Borussia Dortmund  by  Dembelé.  Why did not they do it?

Mbappé  shows constant signs of being a world-renowned crack. The future of soccer. Instead of being Neymar's crony  in  Paris, it  could have been his replacement at  Barça.

Dembelé, a new Gareth Bale?

But the sports management, the technical secretariat or the board of directors - or among all of them - did not consider it the ideal signing. And, now, it does not do more than to exhibit itself with the  PSG.

Mbappé  is better than  Dembelé, according to all the analysts and connoisseurs. Also at the media level it is much more powerful and, therefore, a great generator of money.

Dembelé  does not have that media factor. He remembers a lot when  Madrid signed  Gareth  Bale  after he missed  Neymar : a physical marvel without a mediatic pull and who was injured too much.

The French striker has just landed and he has yet to see what he can do. It will not come back until January. But the samples he gave in his three games were good players who lack many concepts of associative football, first touch and small spaces of the  Barça DNA  .

There are voices that suggest that someone did not want to put another rooster in the henhouse. With the departure of  Neymar  was better not to sign a player with so many stripes, but a more humble profile.

Minguella explains the truth

The retired player agent  Josep María Minguella  explained an episode of the operation unknown today. A very juicy information.

"I talked to Mbappé's father   and he told me that they could help get the kid out of  Monaco  to go to a team where he could play but at  Real Madrid  they did not want to because the BBC was going to continue   and at  PSG  they were not convinced either "Explained Minguella to the Cope chain  .

And he confessed the following: "In  Barcelona I  would like to play because  Neymar  was going to  PSG  and there was a perfect space for  Mbappé to  play with  Messi . He told me he would be willing to wait for  Barcelona . Then appeared the  Dembélé . "

"According to what the father told me, he believed that the operation could be achieved in about  150 million  to be divided between a fixed and a variable (which cost  Dembélé ). I asked him if 100 million, pulling down, but took long. This was communicated to  Barcelona  but they were still engaged with  Dembélé,"said  Minguella .