Ousmane Dembélé

anyone who's played footy at even a semi pro level knows you have to make those risks.. otherwise you're basically useless as an attacking player

I was gone for a few days, I thought Barca fans hated him because he's a "mediocre scrub"?

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Name one today outside where he he ran into a defender instead of side passing in the first 20 minutes.

Because aside from that he barely made any bad decisions or turned the ball over.

Oh and btw Messi has 100s of turnovers and bad decisions every season, as do every forward who try to make things happen while the rest stand around looking at the floor.

Unless you want your forwards to be expressionless robots you have to accept that comes with the territory.

I wish I could find his individual highlights which I usually can on YouTube but cause this is CL, Uefa are more stringent with copyrights than La Liga.

Regardless there were numerous occasions where he showed he lacked any basic intelligence. Many a times he was uninvolved in the play where he could have with better positioning on the left, numerous occasions when he played poor unnecessary passes that were cut off. And also there is no need to dribble like that in the middle of the park with 11 opponents behind the ball and lose it straight away. Also he is nowhere as technical as his advocates make him out to be. He has a poor first touch and his style of pacey dribbling is very uncontrolled and erratic. You can see that one the freekick that he won and Messi converted. Lots of poor touches while he dribbles but that time he got away with being fouled.

There's a reason I call him Dumbélé.

2 hours late to training again today, he doesnt learn lol

People call him young but honestly, 21 is not that young any more. The lack of professionalism can be seen on and off the pitch.

Mr Nick09 wrote:2 hours late to training again today, he doesnt learn lol

It's best he didn't show up.

Dembélé arrived 50 minutes early to training today. [sport]

He's trying to make up

So summer last year, it was FC Barcelona itself that told Dembélé not showing up for training was a good thing.
Now they've changed their mind?

Myesyats wrote:Dembélé arrived 50 minutes early to training today. [sport]

He's trying to make up

yep. The kid needed to be put in his place, showing up two hours late as if he was Ronaldinho or something

Hapless_Hans wrote:So summer last year, it was FC Barcelona itself that told Dembélé not showing up for training was a good thing.
Now they've changed their mind?

Two different things imo. Teaching your kid to rob school kids is fine, him using that to rob you is outright despicable and wrong imo.

Myesyats wrote:Dembélé arrived 50 minutes early to training today. [sport]

He's trying to make up

50 minutes is an odd time. Pleb probably tried to come an hour early and was 10 minutes late

AS claims Dembele will be fined at least 100k, up to 300k euros.

Wouldn't be surprised if none of this is true and because everybody believes everything the media tells them to like blind sheep they follow it like gospel.

RAC1 reports all of this and they're a radio station so they're not like you typical media. Their info is mostly on point.

Also it's not THAT big of a deal really so I don't see why would the lie about it.

Mandem needs to read the stories of Cassano and Balotelli to know he needs to work hard or he'll be in the bin before he knows it. And with him, his dreams.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Wouldn't be surprised if none of this is true and because everybody believes everything the media tells them to like blind sheep they follow it like gospel.

That's what makes this forum entertaining, though

I also love how we disregard news when it puts our favourite stuff in a bad light.

Damn right. If there is 1 article in favor of your BS and 40 against, you post the one in favor OBVIOUSLY.

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Absolutely ridiculous speed, technique and finishing.

Ridiculous goal. Absolutely sensational.

I appreciate the fact that the ball was never outside his scope of control, great goal.

Doc wrote:I also love how we disregard news when it puts our favourite stuff in a bad light.

He's not a favourite really lol, i just feel like the criticism is overly harsh and i wouldn't be surprised if Barca is feeding false info to force him out.

Wouldn't be the first time a club of that size has done that and i very rarely believe a corporation over a player without proof.

Great goal. I feel like Ousmane tends to be a hit or miss in situations like that, though. If Tottenham's defenders had kept their composure and prevented him from scoring, this would have been a scenario that I've seen from him several times in the past, where he opts to take on defenders instead of passing it to a team mate in a better position. It's his playing style and he's only playing to his strengths, but generally speaking, it would be more ideal if his decision-making was better, in my opinion. That said, he clearly made the right decision this time.

Thimmy wrote:Great goal. I feel like Ousmane tends to be a hit or miss in situations like that, though. If Tottenham's defenders had kept their composure and prevented him from scoring, this would have been a scenario that I've seen from him several times in the past, where he opts to take on defenders instead of passing it to a team mate in a better position. It's his playing style and he's only playing to his strengths, but generally speaking, it would be more ideal if his decision-making was better, in my opinion. That said, he clearly made the right decision this time.

The ostensible problem with his decision making is IMO also due to the fact that anything is possible in any moment from him.
He's completely two footed so he can dribble, pass, shoot in everywhich way in every position, and that wealth of options makes it hard.
It's this sheer unpredictability that makes him so good to watch, for me, though.
His game is creative chaos (which is by the way also why he funtioned so well for Tuchel, who likes his teams to engender some creative chaos in the attacking phase to overcome tight defenses)