Is he submerged? Traveling to France for the pastime? The 21 year old Ousmane Dembélé is hard to comprehend these days. While employer Borussia Dortmund is negotiating with FC Barcelona on a sale of his striker Dembélé , the latter has become invisible. In order to force his departure in the Ruhr area, he has entered into a strike, it is said. What's wrong. Borussia suspended him from the game and training company until further notice. What Sport Bild does not prevent them to call him a "Stinkstiefel" and a "hot money and unscrupulous mercenaries".
It is true that the Borussia would like to sell the Supertalent, their best player last season, after only one year - if the price is right. To this detachment there is now a clever. Barcelona, which has earned 222 million euros for the Neymar migrated to Paris St. Germain, is said to have offered the Dortmunders nearly 100 million euros for Dembélé. Too little, find the Dortmunder. Apparently, BVB calls for some 120 million, of which 20 would be passed on to Dembélé's former club Stade Rennes. The player, perhaps controlled by consultants or his wish team from Catalonia, did not come to work one day - "to push the price", as BVB CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke suspects. The distortion around Dembélé is the first major transfer case of the Bundesliga in the post-Neymar era. Suddenly, all sums are conceivable, all means seem permissible.
Until 31 August, the end of the transfer period, the matter must be decided: 100 million euro for BVB, 120 million? Or zero, and the football profi contractually bound by 2021 returns ruefully to the playing field. Or zero euro, and Dembélé changes nevertheless - this new variant brings the Karlsruhe lawyer Markus Schütz into the play now. Schütz, who represents a former adviser to the striker, says, "If the player mandates us, I will fight his employment contract with Dortmund." If the contract were invalid for any reason, Dembélé could go free of charge, Dortmund would not see a cent.
Is this a threat? Or the attempt to get into business just before a transfer? It is not to be expected that Dembélé's current agent, Moussa Sissoko, will question the contract of employment mentioned above. He has negotiated him last year, when the player from Rennes came to Dortmund, for an exchange honorable of allegedly three million euros cashed.
Markus Schütz, lawyer of the French player, Martial Kodja, who has been running Dembélé since his youth together with a relative of the striker, has already announced the BVB twice because of the circumstances of the obligation at the German Football Association. First of all, in the case of sports courts, because of alleged violations of the regulations for player mediation. And then at the DFB ethics committee, headed by former Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel - because of the "machinations" of the BVB officials, as it is in a letter to Kinkel.
At the core is the accusation that Dortmund had pulled the then 19-year-olds across the table. The player did not present a contract paper in his French mother tongue during the final talks. In addition, the BVB had not accepted the agent Kodja, who had been commissioned by the player, when he and Dembélé's mother Fatima had joined the meeting on 17 May last year to Dortmund. Dembélé had thus opposed the BVB-men without representation and "powerless".
The five-year contract signed by the Frenchman does not leave him starving. Allegedly, he earns a basic salary of two million euros a year and got ten million hand money in the signature - over the term of the contract this is a total of four million a year. This is a comparatively low remuneration for such a coveted player. In addition, no salary increase was anchored and, above all, no exit option.
What does the agent debate mean for a possible Barcelona transfer?
Nevertheless, the DFB committee rejected the complaint. Kinkel's Ethics Committee did not initiate proceedings. Dortmund could counter the allegations. May 17, when Kody came to Dortmund, was no longer a day of trial, but merely the date for signing. He had been negotiating with the agent Sissoko, in English. The French ex-national player was able to explain the mother tongue to the football professional. The fact that the licensing levy is written in German, write the regulations.
However, Kodjas attorney-at-law claims that last year, the professional had not deprived the agent Sissoko of the company MS Foot based in England the advisory mandate. Dembélé had noted that Sissoko had not represented his interests, but the Dortmunds. At the time, the player had not commissioned Sissoko, but the BVB had engaged him in February 2016 as an intermediary in order to win Dembélé for Dortmund, and certainly tear him apart from other clubs. At the time, other clubs were also campaigning for talent, including Barcelona and Bayern Munich. These clubs obviously talked to the other consultants.
Such a procedure would be somewhat tricky, but not forbidden. In at least three other transfer cases the Borussia acted thus, claimed Kodjas lawyer. BVB contests the least in the case of Dembélé. Sissoko was presented to the Dortmunders as the consultant, who accompanies the player in transfer affairs.
What does this dispute mean for a possible Barcelona transfer? In Dortmund, there are people who believe that someone wants to get involved in the last pusher. Martial Kodja could try to take over his fellow comrade Badou Sambagué, the relative, influence on the mother of the player. Both of them might be badly opposed to Dembélé's work. And they claim they would take him to his dream club in Barcelona by making the Dortmund player's account illegal.
Free of charge, that means: No money for Dortmund, even more for the player. That would be adventurous. As long as Ousmane Dembélé remains suspended, all participants are at least calm in one respect. Thus the probability of an injury endangering the big deal is low.
"Yo, we don't want to sell our best player and we haven't heard anything from you for weeks after our last negotiations, but how about we help you by demanding 30 M less? We are a "selling club" after all and you're Barca".
