Football: Dortmund Stand Ground With Barca-target Dembele

Will not negotiate with Barcelona over a price for Ousmane Dembele as the clock keeps ticking in their stand-off with the want-away winger.

(APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Aug, 2017 ) will not negotiate with Barcelona over a price for Ousmane Dembele as the clock keeps ticking in their stand-off with the want-away winger. Dortmund suspended Dembele indefinitely on August 10 when the 20-year-old boycotted training in protest after the German club rejected an initial bid from Barcelona.

The Spanish giants want to sign Dembele and Liverpool's Philippe Coutinho to replace Neymar, who left for Paris Saint-Germain for a record 222 million Euros ($261m). However, Dembele has a Dortmund contract until 2021 and reports claim the Germans want 130 million euros for the player they paid Rennes 15m euros for last year.

"We are prepared to sell him and what we want is on the table," confirmed Dortmund's CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke, putting the ball firmly in Barcelona's court. "When it's not met, Dembele will stay with us.

"We will not negotiate." Last week, no sooner had Barcelona's general manager Pep Segura said they were "close" to a deal with Dembele than Watzke fired back things "had not moved forward one millimetre".