Report: Barcelona told no less than €150M will do for Dortmund's Dembele

Borussia Dortmund has reportedly alerted Barcelona that the club will not negotiate an Ousmane Dembele move for anything less than €150 million.

Desperate to fill the vacancy left by Neymar's move to Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona is eyeing a slew of replacements, with Dembele's name and Liverpool's Philippe Coutinho the ones most commonly bandied about.

After Dortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke publicly admitted earlier in the week that the club would reject an opening bid in the neighbourhood of €100 million, the Guardian's Ed Aarons reports that the Bundesliga side is determined not to sell the player it nabbed from Rennes last summer for a modest €15-million fee.

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Dembele, 20, starred in his debut campaign at the Westfalenstadion, chipping in with six league goals and a dozen assists - the Bundesliga's second-highest total - as he combined with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to stellar results.

Understandably, Dortmund is adamant in its desire to keep hold of the French international, and with the summer transfer window set to slam shut at the end of August, Peter Bosz's lot fear there is no time to find a potential replacement for the crafty winger.

The German top flight's Rookie of the Season is reportedly keen to make the Barcelona switch, though Dortmund hopes to keep the player in the fold for at least this season. Should he make the Catalan switch, Aarons adds that former club Rennes could pocket €30 million for a sell-on clause included in Dembele's contract.