Borussia Dortmund have told Barcelona that they will not consider selling Ousmane Dembele for less than €150 million (£135 million).

Dortmund’s chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke indicated earlier this week that they would reject an opening bid worth around €100 million.

Barcelona is searching for a replacement for Neymar.

Dembele would like a move to Barcelona but knows he may need to stay with Dortmund for another season.

Dembele’s former club Rennes are also believed to have a sell-on clause which would mean they are due up to €30m of any transfer fee received.

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Manchester United scouted Isco several times when he was still at Malaga before his move to Real Madrid.

“He’s good, but not quite quick enough and his head is too big for his body,” wrote the scout reporting back to Alex Ferguson.

Isco was named man of the match in Real Madrid’s 2-1 European Super Cup win over United on Tuesday.

“The midfield players of Real Madrid there are only one, there are no replicas,” said Jose Mourinho.

“No replicas of Modric, Toni Kroos, Isco, no replicas of Casemiro, so they are really solid and the way they move the ball makes it difficult.”

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The captain of Mexico’s national football team has been sanctioned by the US for allegedly being a “front person” for a drug-trafficking cartel.

Rafael Márquez was one of 21 people and 42 organisations singled out by the US treasury department for sanctions.

They are all accused of having ties with alleged drug trafficker Raul Flores Hernandez.

Mr Márquez made a statement to the Mexican attorney general’s office but no details were released immediately.

Mexican singer Julio César Álvarez is also on the list.

Both he and Rafael Márquezez are accused, in a US treasury department statement, of having “longstanding relationships with Flores Hernández… acted as front persons for him and his DTO [drug-trafficking organisation] and held assets on their behalf”.

The statement said the ruling meant that any assets of theirs under US jurisdiction or controlled by people in the US would be frozen.

Mr Márquez, known to fans as “Rafa”, made a voluntary declaration before the Mexican attorney general’s office on Wednesday, it said.

Julio César Álvarez rejected the claims against him and also defended Mr Marquez.

“He’s got one of the longest careers in football,” he said in a post on Facebook. “Do you really think he would need to do something like this?”

Mr Márquez, 38, has represented Mexico in four World Cups and won more than 140 international caps in two decades with the national side.

Having played for European club sides Monaco and Barcelona, where he won the Spanish league four times and the Champions League twice, the defender returned to Mexico in 2015 to rejoin his first club Atlas, where he remains captain.
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