Real Madrid join chase for Ousmane Dembele

Real Madrid are reportedly set to compete with Barcelona for the services of Borussia Dortmund attacker Ousmane Dembele. The 20-year-old had an impressive debut season with the German giants last term, netting 11 goals and providing a further 18 assists across all competitions.

The France international has been identified by Barcelona as their prime target to replacement Neymar, who made a shocking switch to Paris Saint-Germain for a world-record fee.

According to AS, Los Blancos are also keeping a close eye on the former Rennes man as they seem to out to Paris Saint-Germain in the pursuit of AS Monaco's Kylian Mbappe.

Dembele joined the Dortmund giants from Rennes for just £13m last summer, but they have now quoted a sum of around £135m in order to part ways with the highly-rated forward.

Ernesto Valverde's side are preparing an offer worth £100m for Dembele, but they could potentially lose the player to Real Madrid, who are prepared to offer a couple of fringe players to sweeten the deal.