{"id":70180,"date":"2026-08-26T22:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/70180\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:51:16","slug":"after-the-decision-to-exclude-him-has-paris-saint-germain-settled-its-position-on-extending-dembeles-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/70180\/","title":{"rendered":"After the decision to exclude him: has Paris Saint-Germain settled its position on extending Dembele&#8217;s contract?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain have made their stance clear on a new contract for Ousmane Dembele, according to a report published on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ballon d&#8217;Or winner&#8217;s future has shot back into focus over the past few hours after the club chose to rest him for the trip to Lille.<\/p>\n<p>PSG&#8217;s management took that firm call following a stumble on the opening weekend, a 2-2 draw with Rennes in which the team had trailed by two goals with no reply.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">You can discuss the topics and news in greater depth in the Kooora forums<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Dembele came off at half-time in that match alongside teammate Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. He was then officially left out of the next fixture to give him a rest, though other reports suggested the move was a punishment for his dip in form.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0All of this has sparked fresh questions about his standing at the club, particularly as PSG have spent several months working with his agents on an extension.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The plan is to add one or two years to his deal, tying him to Paris Saint-Germain until 2029 or 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody in Paris is unduly worried. Player and club both want the partnership to continue, and talks are moving along nicely.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Negotiations will pause temporarily in the closing stretch of the summer window, then pick back up once it shuts, according to RMC Sport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">You can discuss the topics and news in greater depth in the Kooora forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paris Saint-Germain have made their stance clear on a new contract for Ousmane Dembele, according to a report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[725,4306,42413,2999,30,333,1661],"class_list":["post-70180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-ligue-1","tag-lille","tag-lille-vs-paris-saint-germain","tag-o-dembele","tag-paris","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}