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Ousmane Dembele has not said in Barcelona that he wants to leave in January and the club does not intend to sell it, sources told ESPN FC.
Dembele, which cost € 145 million when he joined Borussia Dortmund last year, started the first nine games of the season but has remained in the group since his retirement from the Champions League game in Tottenham. October.
His professionalism has been questioned since he missed a training session earlier this month. The club said he was suffering from a stomach virus, but the media claimed that he had spent all night playing computer games with friends.
Barca officials met with Dembele's agents during the international break, but general manager Pep Segura said it was a routine meeting. Sources said that a January release had not been discussed.
In October, sources told ESPN FC that Barca was concerned about some aspects of Dembele's lifestyle, but that he was sticking to it – which is still the case even though information suggests the opposite this week.
Coach Ernesto Valverde has called the 21-year-old "tremendous talent that brings qualities that no one else can".
The late equalizer of the French striker against Atletico Madrid was his seventh goal of the season, and his teammate Sergio Busquets said the fury surrounding him was nonconforming. was not as intense as it seems.
"It's not as difficult as it seems from the outside," he told Diario SPORT. "Ousmane is a good kid, young, from a foreign country and who needs a process of adaptation.
"He's a great footballer, we want to help him and hope he gives a lot – we know he can do it."
Dembele is ready to return to the starting lineup for the Champions League match on Wednesday at PSV Eindhoven, where a win would seal the Barca group's top spot.
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