Sources: Ousmane Dembele prefers to leave Barcelona in the summer, Chelsea leading race

After a bucketload of news today regarding Ousmane Dembele’s winter exit, Angelo Mangiate from Sky Sport brings forth with a sharp-right in the situation.

He says that the Frenchman prefers a summer exit from Barcelona as a free agent, preferably to the Premier League. And as it stands, Chelsea are in pole position to sign him.

Dembele has been linked to several Premier League clubs in the last few days, with Tottenham Hotspur apparently dropping the idea to sign him because of his wages, while Manchester United, Arsenal, and Newcastle United plan from the shadows.

A move to Chelsea makes sense for Dembele, though. After a turbulent spell in the Catalan capital, training under the coach that brought the best out of him in Thomas Tuchel could resurrect his career.

Further, the two shared a healthy working relationship, which ended too early, as was revealed by the German coach recently, who said:

“He’s a very good player, and I am very fortunate to have trained him in my time at Dortmund. It was only one year, it should have been longer, but I needed to leave, and he decided to leave.” 

As it stands, a winter exit from Barcelona seems next to improbable. As it is, the administration is quite wrapped up with bringing in a low-cost striker as an alternative to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, whose deal with the club has collapsed.