Obviously, the career of Ousmane Dembélé at FC Barcelona turns worse and worse over the months. The Frenchman, who returned from two and a half months of unavailability after a right leg femoral biceps injury last November, left his teammates prematurely again on Monday, barely a week after returning to training. In a medical statement on Tuesday, the club spoke of "complete rupture of the femoral biceps". This injury continues to fuel the debates around a player who is sometimes described as unlucky, sometimes as unprofessional, and often as both.
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Las pruebas realizadas esta mañana a @Dembouz han mostrado que el jugador tiene una rotura completa del tendón proximal del femíps bicice del muslo derecho. En las próximas horas se determinará qué tratamiento seguirá para su recuperación pic.twitter.com/Po508adRW0
Barça socios annoyed by the situation
This relapse also occurs in a context that seemed ideal for Dembélé, who was to return to competition Thursday, February 6 in the King's Cup against Athletic Bilbao. Quique Setien, the new FC Barcelona coach who arrived on January 13, had thus declared that he was counting on the striker for the next meetings, even partially justifying the lack of recruitment in front despite the injury of Luis Suarez, by the return of the young man. A welcome sign of support, while the world champion has not only made friends in the club. Starting with his teammates who are not shy about talking about his lack of professionalism in the media.
Dembélé's solo goal against Tottenham in December 2018
Deschamps also wary of the player's attitude
The latest, Lionel Messi during an interview for the daily Sport last September, said " he (Dembélé) has to change things about his professionalism, he has to put that in his head. Before him Gerard Pique and Luis Suarez had made similar outings last season. Even his ex-cook, Mickael Naya, in an interview with the Parisian , had questioned the seriousness of the 22-year-old young man, believing that there was " no high-level structure around him ".
Moussa Sissoko, Dembélé's agent and advisor, was thus received by Barça at the start of the season to explain the player's refusal to come and see his injury after the defeat against Athletic Bilbao on August 25, 2019 (0-1 ), the player preferring to go see his mother in Rennes.
Even the coach of the France team, Didier Deschamps got involved. During the press conference following the announcement of the list for the matches against Albania and Andorra on August 29, DD urged the one who has not known the Blues since November 16, 2018, to " be aware of the requirements high level "as well as" taking care of your body ". The latest disavowal came from supporters in late December. When asked by Mundo Deportivo concerning the player whose Barça should get rid of as a priority, addressed to 3000 socios, 22% cited Ousmane Dembélé. Worse, more than 70% of them estimated that the player should be sold this summer. The Spanish press does not hesitate to echo all these doubts. While all Hispanic sports newspapers devote an article this Tuesday morning to the relapse of the one who was bought € 125M by Barça in 2017, Sport even made its front page and spoke of “borderline situation”, recalling that Quique Setien cannot count more than on three attackers during the key period of February and that he will therefore have to rely on the Masia. The Marca newspaper reveals to him that the young man already missed 63 official matches with FC Barcelona in two seasons and half (that is to say a little less than a match on two). A figure that will therefore not work out well…
Ousmane Dembélé's injury history at Barça
- February 3, 2020 - ??? : Muscle fatigue
- November 28, 2019 - January 27, 2020 : Feminine bicep lesion ( 17 missed matches )
- September 27 - September 30, 2019 : Thigh injury ( 1 missed match )
- August 19 - September 22, 2019 : Breakdown ( 5 missed matches )
- May 5 - June 16, 2019 : Femoral bicep lesion ( 4 missed matches )
- March 14 - April 9, 2019 : Muscle tear in the thigh ( 4 missed games )
- January 21 - February 8, 2019 : Sprained ankle ( 5 missed matches )
- January 15 - February 10, 2018 : Tear in one thigh ( 7 missed matches )
- September 17, 2017 - January 1, 2018 : Ruptured femoral tendon of the biceps (20 missed matches )
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