While Borussia Dortmund and Barcelona are locked in negotiations over the possible transfer of Ousmane Dembele, the player is ignoring the club's calls and has not been attending training.
The Bundesliga club have tried to contact him through various means, but the player's agent Moussa Sissoko has ordered him to switch off his mobile phones and to stay away from the training facilities.
By doing so, the 20-year-old is being fined for each day he is not at coach Peter Bosz's orders.
The player and his representatives are doing all they can to force through the move to the Camp Nou, but it is tarring his image in Germany and it might not even work.
That's because the Dortmund directors are refusing to lower their asking price of 150 million euros, which is above the 130m euros currently being offered by the Catalan club.
Borussia Dortmund hope to keep him for the 2017/18 season and they do not want to consider alternative names.