11 - Ousmane Dembélé - V1

[FinBarcelonafan]

I hope we get battered by Celta tbh, the sooner we're out of this cup the better, we've won it the past three years and it takes a ton out of us before the CL knockouts starts. What Valverde should really do is hand over the Copa to Barca B and go with all guns blazing into the CL.

Personally I wouldn't mind this. We have won it so many times in a row. Time for us to win League and CL. Focus on those big ones.

 

[Alik]

Copa probably won't affect our chances in the CL much in any direction.

Especially with the liga being "in the bag".

 

[Jombi]

Copa probably won't affect our chances in the CL much in any direction.

Especially with the liga being "in the bag".

The league isnt in the bag by any means. Thats crazy talk at this stage of the season and the quality of our squad.

 

[Alik]

The league isnt in the bag by any means. Thats crazy talk at this stage of the season and the quality of our squad.

We have superior quality to Atletico and Valencia. As for Real, they are out of the running, that's not crazy talk.

 

[Jombi]

We have superior quality to Atletico and Valencia. As for Real, they are out of the running, that's not crazy talk.

Its crazy talk. If our team in any way has the same attitude, we're in for a rough second half of the season.

 

[JamDav1982]

Its crazy talk. If our team in any way has the same attitude, we're in for a rough second half of the season.

If they had your attitude that the squad is shit and miles off Reals great bunch gteed to dominate for years wouldn't even be in this position.

I swear you would like a bad second half to point at squad and say how shit it is.

 

[Devils]

If they had your attitude that the squad is shit and miles off Reals great bunch gteed to dominate for years wouldn't even be in this position.

 

[Luftstalag14]

We don't need complacency here. Let's win Sociedad and Betis away first.

 

[raskolnikov]

Team wont be complacent. If we win vs Levante we will end up at 48/49 or 51 points depending on what will happen vs Sociedad after 19 matches.
Atletico and Valencia will drop points every now and then.

Real basically need to win nearly every game to end up post 90 points and even come close.
even with a weak second half of the season we would most likely end up with high 80’s/ low 90’s points.

So even with a very strong Real run and a weak one from us we will still end up higher. And we also got the h2h advantage. I think its fair to say its in the bag bar a giant bottle job from us.
Weird to say in december but thats the reality after that great classico win.

 

[Zincubus]

Don't miss the return of Dembele being advertised for the Camp nou game vs Levante on the 7th of January.

Supposedly that's been taken down off the website .... which is worrying ...

 

[behindbrowneyes]

Supposedly that's been taken down off the website .... which is worrying ...

They are just cautious with him as SPORT wrote today: https://www.sport-english.com/en/news/barca/maximum-caution-over-ousmane-dembele-6521209

No need to rush him back. We've done well without him and one week sooner or later is no problem after the long time he has missed.

 

[Devils]

He's recovered from his injury but still hasn't been given the green light. It's good they are being cautious with him and there isn't a need to rush him back, especially with our current position in La Liga.

 

[xXKonan]

The club wants to avoid what happened again with Dembele and not throw him into the fire like we did at the start of the season. It will be good for Dembele to be patient and slowly be reintegrated into the fold once he gets the green light.

we are in a good position we don't need him straight away.

 

[Potroh]

The club wants to avoid what happened again with Dembele and not throw him into the fire like we did at the start of the season. It will be good for Dembele to be patient and slowly be reintegrated into the fold once he gets the green light. We are in a good position we don't need him straight away.

- The serious injury of Dembele could have been the result of a smaller one, that was not really taken care of, either by the player himself or the medical team. But that doesn't mean it is the same situation now, after returning from injury, because this is the time when they get the thoroughest medical attention.
- All players want to play and they are impatient to play. But one should analyze the general reason behind it, which is usually not just the urge to score goals and hear the crowd reciting their names in honor, but the mere fact that they do a lot of physically demanding work during training, so if they finally don't play, they start feeling that they have been working hard for nothing. A player who doesn't play or plays just rarely, sooner or later will lose motivation for the work behind close doors.
- That's why - if the player is fit and physically, mentally capable - I see no reason why he shouldn't play or should be just gradually introduced again.
- In a team sport of course it is easily possible, but one can't ask a boxer to do only one round or the sprinter to initially run just 50 meters. If a team needs the player and he is fit, he should simply play, without the possible most extreme care.
- On the other hand, if a player got seriously injured by an awful tackle by the opposition, you can always observe that he will be instinctively scared entering the similar situations for some time. That's a different scenario, but Dembele got his injury on his own, which makes this aspect a bit easier...

 

[FC433]

Dembele is for the future. We need to be very careful with him physically and mentally. We should never pressure him and I do think that his injury took away a lot of pressure from being Neymar's replacement to a new addition to the team.

We have got a lot of time.