"Vamos Dembele" as the ambulance drives out😂😂😂😂😅

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Dembele has absolutely had Barca's pants down here 🤣

After the horrendous way in which he left BVB, I don't feel bad for Barça getting finessed like this.

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!

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.

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

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 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

Somehow Neymar going to psg affected everyone negatively except for mbappe. Barcelona had never been the same since msn broke up

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

The way bortameu used 220 million of Neymar was bizarre !!! Laporta in his place could have done wonders with that money! Laporta is clear!

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.

upon landing in paris a slight breeze struck dembele's hamstrings and will now miss *6 months* due to injury...

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.

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 🇿🇼❤️❤️🔥💯

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

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.

Dembele really finessed Barca😂 Xavi is getting ready to pull another financial lever as we speak😂

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.

Xavi trusted the wrong guy. He needs to learn as well

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.

Holy hell, his agent is an absolute baller. If I was dembele, I'd be giving him half of that 25 mil hahaha

As a Zimbabwean living in Canada, seeing that shirt was heart warming 🙂

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.

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.

As a Zimbabwean I can confirm that the rivalry between Highlanders and their rivals Dynamos is the Zimbabwean equivalent of El Classico

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.

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.

Shout out, all the way from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 ..... Bosso!!! Highlander!!! Wow! I'm shocked. Never expected 😂

9:50 “vamos jordi!!! Vamos 🚑demeble🚑 “ 😂😂😂

Watch him prove you wrong and never get injured again 🤣🤣🙌🏾

Keep on the great work! Your football essays are amazing

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A highlanders kit wow as a Zimbabwean I'm so happy Thank you rabona you made my day Where did you buy it

Wtf is a private clause? Laporta has been fooled😭

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.

Please STOP the nonsense. In Dortmund, Dembele scored 11 goals and had 21 assists in one season at 19. That's not "potential". That's world class PERFORMANCE. And he never missed ANY games until he came to Barcelona. Pedri has missed half as many games in the last two seasons as Dbele missed in six seasons. Stop perpetuating false narratives. Let the player get on with his career.

Honestly Barca have themselves to blame. They agreed to the clause

I love the dude but you have a point, his departure was inevitable. Better sooner than later, although most of us are still shook

Love how you are wearing a teen from home, im a dynamos fan tho(rivals) 🇿🇼

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

Thanks for the sangalo. Great to see some less know countries being highlighted

As barca fan i knew karma will be back just after barca signed Dembele

As a Barça fan we can only blame ourselves

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!!!

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.

Man Dembele really played Barça, unbelievable man.

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.....

Yooo shout out to Adrian for wearing one of my country's biggest clubs' shirt!!

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.

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.

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

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.

Paris' hospital will be filled with dembele,neymar and lucas oh is verrati still there 😂

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.

As a barca fan. I am happy dembele is leaving.

I'm not sure Laporta's board has learnt anything from Bartomeu's mistakes. Wow😮

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

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.

as a cule, I’ve never been so relieved for a transfer to be done 🤣

I am from Zimbabwe and from the city where highlanders comes from ❤😇 you are the man 🙏🏾💪🏽🔥

That Sangalo sponsors is one of the coolest sponsors I’ve ever seen on KZfaq lol. Very unique, I’m going to see if they have any Ghanaian kits.

55 seconds in and I'm wondering if you've included the Dembele reveal keepy uppys debacle 😂😂😂

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

Xavi is the only one that's crying Barca fans are happy no more Dembulance 😂

Watching from Zimbabwe (great to see you rocking the highlanders` kit). Kinda feel bad for Xavi and PSG`s medical staff

There is no confusion about Dembele 's contract. Barcelona is trying to renege on their world

Neymar dropping deep to create and dembele passing drilling. Man , this makes mbappe jobs easier

Shout out from Zimbabwe!!

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.

Seems like some players out of France or the league are just drama kings-Payet, Mbappe, Neymar, Dembele. Or am I getting this wrong?

Just another example of Bartomeu’s horrendous financial mismanagement

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

Mungkin yg terbaik menurutnya jika dia pinda lebih baik dari pada tetp di barca,pasti punya alasan,sehat dll ya OusmaNe❤

Try an Asante Kotoko Jersey. The green one

Bro what is the background music you use? I want to listen to these instrumentals

Not surprisingly after what he did with BvB 🤷🏽

i mean psg paid 50 mil for dembele very good move from them with him neymar and Ramos thats a pretty good attack now to see what they do with Mbappe

What a joke of a clause 😂

Highlanders🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼this is a team from the city I was born in and grew up in. Unfortunately I left very early in my life and very attended a game. Bosso☠️

🤣🤣🤣 That ambulance clip

The Elder is wearing a Bosso kit? Now I've seen everything 😂

PSG and Dembele truly deserves one another :)

the fear of missing out forms the market if you wait one season for certain players you know there not worth the money

PSG and Barcelona have a special relationship don't they. So, I've always been a football fan. But this is the first transfer window that i pay attention to all the drama and bad blood that can result. Its not something a casual fan (which i used to be) pays attention to. But these players are people. These sporting directors and managers and owners are people. People get angry. People lie. People cheat. And, even with the public statements individual clubs pull out to the masses its something to keep in mind. Its cynical to think like that and i don't normally think like that (Chelsea last year really beat my childish naivety) but...yeah 🤷‍♂️ As for Barca. I think they'll continue as they have this past season and a half. With a focus on getting rid of that poor performance against top league opposition in the Champions League you mentioned a short while ago. It won't be easy, but nothing worth it ever is

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

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!

I want Neymar to just walk up to him in the locker room or sum when it’s just them look him in the eyes and tell him “you messed up” or sum and jus walk off💀 lowkey would be funny af to me idk why

How in the blue hell did club management really think that he would fit into a system club like Barca? Same for Joao Felix at Atleti.

Tough luck for xavi, you can see what he's trying to build. A shame that he's losing such a viable attack option.