the people desperate to see him play clearly doesn`t see the elephant in the room or at least choose not too. this had nothing to do with us -fans- and our affinity with Dembele. It is a matter of a coach, his ideas and his personnel. When you recruit a coach -ideally after having studied his CV- you are recruiting a body of ideas and believing in those ideas and their prospects.
We signed Velverde, meaning we have faith in his ideas. that is just logic. Valverde is on his way to win a major trophy, and potentially multiple trophies, this means his project is working, albeit the aesthetics are debatable. Now this coach clearly feels annoyed whenever he plays Dembele, that is obvious to everyone who watches football objectively and without emotional attachements. This will ultimately leads to one funny fork road come the end if the season: Either sack the coach who won big things and try to play it risky by recruiting a new manager who would improve our aesthetics (with whom we are sure Dembele will have more chances, freedom, patience etc..) or play it safely (one may even say logically) and continue with Valverde on grounds that he is a coach who won with a thin squad quality wise (coutinho was not decisive). Now the third ramification is the most controversial one: Continue with both Valverde and Dembele, i said previously that we should consider selling Dembele provided that we have solid offers (unlikely to happen) and i was mocked. However, this third ramification seems to me as a sort of football-schizophrenia, in other terms try to match a coach with a player who clearly doesn t do his tactics big service.
