Like I said last page, MD and Sport have journalists who would favor selling a star or talented player for big money in order to finance a player they want as in Paul Pogba.
Francesc Aguilar was notorious for this shit last year. Dude kept writing articles on Real Madrid being the boogeyman as they are also after Dybala. The article basically was him begging the club to sign Dybala and using Real as a Boogeyman when it was obvious they had no interest in him.
These guys use "Barca sources" to cover up the fact they have their own agenda against said player because they didn't want him. Ter Stegen suffered this because the Catalan Press was on the Courtois train and hated the fact Zubi signed Ter Stegen instead.
They don’t have agendas against any player, But they do have agendas against the current board, And most these anti-board journalist are working SPORT, But others are still sprinkled around all kind of papers, And their main job is to undermine any work the current administration make.
The reason they’re concentrating at dembele currently, Is to take advantage of his shacky first season and his very expensive transfer, The perfect target if you want to jab into Barto, Make it look like he wasted 150M.
It doesn’t matter if what they say is not true, Just spreading the perception that the board is looking for a way to get rid of of it’s recent 150M purchase, Is a mission accomplished for them.
The reason they relentlessly came after Marc, Is again, Because they wanted to make his signing instead of courtois look like a dumb decision and just another “failure” from this administration.
But do you know what ultimately happened?, Marc shut them up, And I have a feeling dembele will do the same eventually.
Conclusion and summary:
Just boring politics.