PARIS, April 9 — Most of the attention in Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League quarter-final with Barcelona tomorrow will be on Kylian Mbappe, but Ousmane Dembele is also set...
Rennes' French midfielder Ludovic Blas fights for the ball with Paris Saint-Germain 's French forward Ousmane Dembele during the French Cup semi final football match between Paris Saint-Germain and Stade Rennais FC at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris April 3, 2024.
The France star returned to his home country last August after six seasons in Catalonia, with PSG paying a reported 50 million euros to sign him on a five-year deal.That relatively paltry sum in the modern transfer market for a world-class player corresponded to the amount of his release clause at cash-strapped Barca.
“These were my two best years, with a coach who showed confidence in me. But I wanted to sign for PSG. It was more to do with Paris changing my mind than it simply being about quitting Barcelona.” Their previous encounter was the notorious last-16 tie in 2017, when a Barca side coached by Luis Enrique overturned a 4-0 deficit in the first leg to win 6-1 in the return.
That fee, and the even higher sum committed to signing Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool a few months later, heralded the start of Barcelona’s serious financial problems which culminated in Lionel Messi leaving the club in 2021, for PSG. Dembele may really need to weigh in with more goals next season once Mbappe has departed, but for now he has at least provided more assists than any other player in France this season, playing usually in a position on the right flank.
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