BARCELONA have completed the £110million signing of Ousmane Dembele from
Borussia Dortmund, according to reports in France.
BeIN
Sports AR said on Thursday afternoon that the La Liga giants have finally
landed the French forward they have been chasing all summer.
Barcelona see
20-year-old Dembele as the ideal replacement for Neymar, who joined Paris Saint-Germain for £198m earlier this month.
Dembele
has been desperate to move to Barcelona and even
went AWOL from Dortmund two weeks
ago.
That
resulted in him being suspended by the German club and forced to train on
his own.
Barca have been trying
to persuade the Bundesliga side to sell them the forward all summer.
However,
it was reported that Dortmund
would only let Dembele move to Spain for a whopping £128m.
Now
it seems the Nou Camp club may have secured their target for a little less than
that.
Barcelona
fans were quick to react to the news on social media, posting their welcomes to
Dembele.
Barcelona and Borussia
Dortmund officials were set to meet at the Champions
League group draw in Monaco on
Thursday evening.
Dormund’s
sports director Michael Zorc had tried to assure fans that Dembele would not be
discussed at the elite get-together.
But
after Dortmund suspended Dembele and forced him to train on his own, because of
his desire to join Barca, it seemed inevitable that he would leave.
Dembele joined Dortmund
for a reported £13m from Rennes in May 2016, but was not expected to reach
great heights in his first season at the club.
However,
his impressive performances – he scored six goals and provided 12 assists – have
made him one of the hottest young properties in Europe.
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