News about Ousmane Dembele

It has long been known that the forward (left) would depart the newly-crowned French champions - and likely join Real Madrid - but he took to social media last week to confirm the news. The France captain has spent seven years with the club, initially joining on loan from Monaco before making the move permanent a year later in a deal worth £130.5million. Though he enjoyed vast success as domestic level, he was unable to help the side finally win the Champions League, with his latest effort falling short last week in their semi-final loss against Borussia Dortmund.

Orsato initially awarded a penalty to PSG after Mats Hummels' challenge on Ousmane Dembele on the edge of the area in the second half. However, the Italian changed his mind after pointing to the spot and awarded a free-kick instead, with fans praising his hawk-like eye and quick decision-making. The initial contact with Dembele's left foot appeared to be outside the area, but he fell into it, and Ferdinand felt it was a penalty.

Paris Saint-Germain travel to Germany tonight to take on Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final. Firstly, the price boosts on offer include Kylian Mbappe to score at 1/1, Jadon Sancho to win 2+ fouls at 3/1, for there to be 16+ match shots on target at 9/1, and Niclas Fullkrug and Ousmane Dembele both to score at 14/1. The odds for those three bets have been enhanced from 4/5, 5/2, 11/2 and 11/1 respectively.

CRAIG HOPE: Paris Saint-Germain have been here before - twice in a Champions League semi-final in the past four seasons - but not like this. Not with a team who are, whisper it, likeable. Not with a team who have structure and strategy. And not with a team for whom football, not fame and fantasy, is the sole focus.

Joao Cancelo has revealed that his family have been sent 'death wishes' after Barcelona were knocked out of the Champions League by Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday night.  PSG overturned a 3-2 defeat in the first-leg to secure a dramatic 6-4 victory against Barcelona at the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium, with Luis Enrique's side going on to secure a berth in the semi-finals, where they'll take on Borussia Dortmund. Cancelo, who is on loan from Manchester City, played 82 minutes of the match and was involved in a controversial incident just on the hour mark, where he conceded a penalty for lunging in on ex-Barcelona winger Ousmane Dembele. 

PETER JENSON: It's Xavi's last stand on Sunday - his final El Clasico in charge of Barcelona. And things can go one of only two ways as his side travel to the Santiago Bernabeu. Real Madrid go into Sunday's game having had a day's less recovery time after 120 minutes of defending against Manchester City. They still have difficult away games at Real Sociedad and Villarreal, plus the distraction of the Champions League semi-finals.

PETE JENSON: The end is nigh for Xavi. It could even come on Sunday night if Barcelona lose the Clasico and slip 11 points behind Real Madrid. A defeat at the Santiago Bernabeu would leave Barça with a six-game run-in and only second place to play for.  They need to finish second for the €5million [£4.27m] they will earn from the Spanish Super Cup, but chasing runners-up positions is not what the club is about and May will be a long month mainly spent speculating over who the new manager will be.

Ronald Araujo offered a blunt response to Barcelona team-mate Ilkay Gundogan's comments that his red card had 'killed the game' against Paris Saint-Germain which saw Xavi Hernandez's side knocked out of the Champions League. The Catalan hosts were leading 3-2 on aggregate before scoring in the 12th minute to give them an important cushion, but momentum began to shift when the Uruguay international was sent off for fouling Bradley Barcola. Down to 10 men, the Blaugrana were unable to stem the tide of goals from Ousmane Dembele, Vitinha and Kylian Mbappe to see them fail to win a spot in the competition's semi-finals. 

L'Equipe hailed Kylian Mbappe for making Barcelona 'his garden' as Paris Saint-Germain completed a stunning comeback to reach the Champions League semi-finals. Mbappe was one of five PSG players earning an 8 out of 10 rating after scoring his side's third and fourth goal as the Ligue 1 champions set up a semi-final showdown against Borussia Dortmund.  'He was expected to be the saviour and he finally was,' L'Equipe wrote, noting Barcelona was now 'his garden' after the France star scored a hat-trick at the Camp Nou in the first leg of the Round of 16 three years ago. 

Luis Enrique has jokingly hit out Micah Richards for not backing Paris Saint-Germain to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League, despite his side producing a sensational comeback to defeat Barcelona on Tuesday night.  Having been beaten by the LaLiga outfit 3-2 at the Parc des Princes, Enrique's side got off to a rocky start at the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium, with Raphinha putting the hosts 1-0 up after 12 minutes.   Despite that, the French outfit would turn things around, after Ronald Araújo was shown a red card. Ousmane Dembele got the breakthrough just before half-time with Vitinha netting producing a stunning long-range strike to pull the aggregate scores level at 4-4 after the break. Kylian Mbappe scored twice in the final 30 minutes of the match to seal a 6-4 win across the two legs. 

The Frenchman left Barca to join the Ligue 1 champions in the summer and couldn't help but beam and giggle as they fell apart. Ronald Araujo's sending-off proved the catalyst for a mighty PSG comeback, as Kylian Mbappe scored twice to help reverse the tie and win 6-4 on aggregate. Dembele scored in both legs and netted PSG's equaliser on Tuesday night before half-time, with Vitinha scoring a stunning strike before Mbappe's additions.

The Barcelona boss stalked referee Istvan Kovacs, who initially walked away from him, around the pitch and made his feelings clear to him and an assistant. They eventually shook hands after Xavi had vented towards Kovacs on a night dripping with emotion and drama. Xavi had been given a straight red card after booting some of the padding around the VAR monitor in the second half.

The Manchester City loanee lunged in on former Barcelona winger Ousmane Dembele on the hour mark, taking out the Frenchman to give PSG the chance to take the lead in the tie. Kylian Mbappe stepped up to take the penalty and fired it into the side netting to put his side ahead in the tie for the first time since the midway point of the first leg. Though he protested, replays showed Cancelo bringing Dembele to the ground with a rash tackle in the penalty area despite the forward seemingly heading away from goal and towards the corner flag.

PETE JENSON: Barcelona saw red three times and Kylian Mbappe scored twice as Paris Saint Germain knocked the Spanish giants out of the Champions League. Barcelona had to play with ten men for an hour after defender Ronald Araujo was sent off in the first half. And Romanian referee Istvan Kovacs also showed red cards to Xavi and his goalkeeping coach Jose Ramon De la Fuente as the French team won 4-1 on the night and 6-4 on aggregate. Araujo left the field indicating that his team had been robbed. And it was with the same complaint that Xavi was sent from his technical area. 

PSG came from behind to beat Barcelona 4-1, wrapping up a 6-4 aggregate win and a place in the Champions League semi-finals on Tuesday night. Barcelona held the advantage from last week's first leg after winning 3-2 in Paris, and they extended their lead after 12 minutes following fine work from Lamine Yamal before his cross was touched home by Raphinha. But the tie turned just before the half hour mark when Ronald Araujo was sent off for a last-man challenge on Bradley Barcola, and Ousmane Dembele then came back to haunt his former club as he brought PSG level on the night.

Kylian Mbappe received a brutally low rating from L'Equipe after PSG's 3-2 defeat by Barcelona on Wednesday night. The two European giants faced off in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final at the Parc des Princes, and it was Barcelona who came out on top thanks to a brace from former Leeds star Raphinha, before ex-Chelsea defender Andreas Christensen netted the winner. PSG rallied at the start of the second half with two goals in as many minutes from Ousmane Dembele and Vitinha, but Barcelona finished strongly to leave the French side with an uphill take heading into next week's return leg in Spain.

Barcelona placed one foot in the Champions League semi-finals after beating Paris Saint-Germain in a thrilling first leg, with Raphinha their hero. The red-hot forward scored a superb brace to stun the Parc des Princes with his second goal, a volley from Pedri's lofted pass, the standout on a goal-laden night. Raphinha broke the deadlock after pouncing on a loose ball and smashing high into the top corner, capitalising on poor goalkeeping from Gianluigi Donnarumma. PSG rallied back after the break, with Ousmane Dembele and Vitinha on target, before Raphinha's second and Andreas Christensen handed the visitors the lead. Here, Mail Sport's DAN DAVIS has rated the players...

Barcelona's fight against their ongoing financial crisis has hit another sway, after LaLiga reportedly reduced their salary cap by more than £50 million. Following a string of big transfer bribes and years of mismanagement at the Nou Camp, the reigning Spanish champions have been wrestling against Javier Tebas' financial restrictions for some time. As a result, the club's salary cap was reduced by almost 50% for the start of the season - from £558 million to £232 million.

Following a drab first-half performance, Kylian Mbappe led Paris-Saint Germain to a 2-0 win over Real Sociedad on Wednesday night. PSG largely held off, with Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele failing to finish off two close chances in the first half. It was the brilliance of the France World Cup winner and his witty remarks that could have helped Luis Enrique's side take the lead in the 58th minute, with Mbappe stretching at the far post to knock in a free-kick's deflection from a free kick in Luis Enrique's deflection from a free-kick.

Saint-Germain will be hoping 2023-24 is the season they finally get over the hump and win Europe's most coveted trophy, the Champions League. And if they are the strong favorite, they should all be looking forward to June 1 at Wembley Stadium. In the first leg of their round of 16 tie, there is no exception tonight as the Ligue 1 team hosts Real Sociedad in LaLiga.

PETE JENSON: Underappreciated and then slashed, Spain and Barça's legendary Xavi had no intention of visiting Barcelona. The club has form for chewing up and spitting out its stars, but the 44-year-old, who won every aspect of the game for club and country, is now in danger of being remembered more for his comical last season at the club he adores than for his numerous trophies. It's long been established that he is not Pep Guardiola's second coming. He isn't a visionary nor does he have the same lightning quick mental skills to switch games from the touchline. But he still won La Liga last season, Barcelona's first without Lionel Messi, and who's to say it won't be their last game for a long time. He made the biggest mistake not to use that triumph to build a power base within the club. He should have laid down markers having won the trophy, but instead, he allowed others at the club to make all the changes.

PETE JENSON: Xavi's latest plight in Barcelona ticks all the boxes for a coach walking toward expulsion. His director of football would like someone else to take over, while major names in the team are dissatisfied. The players he wanted to keep are now gone, but he does have to deal with those he didn't like. Copa del Rey game against a third-tier team featuring a giant-killing act will be next week.

Last week, a 28-year-old Australian crypto billionaire made history by becoming the youngest ever owner of an F1 team. Edward Craven, the country's youngest billionaire, completed a takeover of the Sauber F1 team before announcing that it would be renamed Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber for the 2024 season, renaming the Alfa Romeo team from last year. Craven's purchase sent shockwaves around the industry, with the majority of the other F1 teams financially wealthy, but much more experienced in terms of life and company.

Newcastle's palpable sense of outrage will not be quenched by the revelation that UEFA has chosen not to follow plans on interpreting the handball statute that would have barred PSG from being eligible for their spot-kick. When it comes to handball penalty decisions, the issue lies in a discrepation between the Premier League and the Champions League. The rules are getting tighter in European competition, with Newcastle being the new victims.