French wonderkid Ousmane Dembele’s introduction as Barcelona’s most up to date star was dominated by the strained climate encompassing the Catalan club as fans sneered and called for president Josep Maria Bartomeu to leave.
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Dembele, 20, turned into the second-most costly player ever in the wake of finishing a €105 million (Dh460m) bargain that could ascend to €147m with additional items from Borussia Dortmund on Friday.
Be that as it may, Barca’s arranged program for a blockbuster introduction was deferred for about two hours because of a printed material issue in discharging his enlistment from Dortmund.
The persistence of 18,000 fans at the Camp Nou was tried with shrieks amid the deferral and serenades of “Bartomeu leave”.
Barca’s board has been under enormous weight because of the club’s blurring fortunes on the field and the loss of Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain for a world record €222m this month.
The participation was likewise well down on the 50,000 fans that invited Neymar on his introduction four years prior.
Following Barca’s current 5-1 total whipping by Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup, the hashtag “bartomeudimiteya” (Bartomeu leave now) turned into a drifting theme worldwide on Twitter.
Dembele at long last developed in Barca’s well known red and blue strip, wearing the No 11 pullover abandoned by Neymar.
“I am extremely cheerful to be a piece of this club,” Dembele said. “It is the best club on the planet with the best players on the planet.”
Dembele will frame a forward line close by five-time World Player of the Year Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez as Barca expect to wrestle the Uefa Champions League and the Primera Liga titles once more from rivals Madrid.
“I trust we’ll have an extraordinary season and win every one of the titles with Barca,” Dembele included. “I plan to coordinate myself well into the group, to get on well with everybody and the fans here in this delightful stadium.”
Dembele should hold up until the point when almost two weeks to influence his presentation because of the up and coming universal break before Barca to have Espanyol in a Catalan derby on September 9.