Posted on December 12, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. by DM Former technical director of Bayern Munich, Michael Reschke had tried to recruit Ousmane Dembélé. But the player only had eyes for FC Barcelona. Trained in Rennes, Ousmane Dembélé had decided to leave Ligue 1 in 2016 to try the adventure abroad and join a prestigious championship. The player made the decision to join Borussia Dortmund. The France international will only stay with the Ruhr club for a year. During the summer of 2017, Dembélé was pushing to join FC Barcelona , the club of his dreams as confirmed by Michael Reschke . Former technical director of Bayern Munich , he had tried to recruit the winger in 2016, but the player had decided to reject the Bavarian proposal in order to give himself a chance to join FC Barcelona. “ We were on the right track. Marco Neppe (former scout editor's note) and I were in Rennes several times during the 2015/16 season and we observed him very closely. We were interested in signing it. Then there was a very good conversation with the mother of Dembélé, one of the key people of the world champion. He also flew to Paris with then-CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge to meet with the son of Rennes owner François Pinault and then-Rennes sports director Mikael Silvestre on the occasion of 'a possible transfer. But the boy only wanted to go to Barcelona. And it was clear that Barca's road would have been blocked had he moved to Munich, “the former Bayern Munich leader said in comments reported by As. 
“The boy only wanted to go to Barcelona ”
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