Ousmane Dembélé

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Laplacian

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What's the point of having "world class traits" if you don't put them to good use? With his acceleration, agility, and technical ability he should be able to make runs like prime Hazard or Ribery. Instead he just kicks and runs because he lacks imagination. Doesn't know how to get into shooting positions either. Doesn't know how to finish either.

Several years from now at the age of 27 he'll be playing exactly the same way.
 

FinBarcelonafan

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What's the point of having "world class traits" if you don't put them to good use? With his acceleration, agility, and technical ability he should be able to make runs like prime Hazard or Ribery. Instead he just kicks and runs because he lacks imagination. Doesn't know how to get into shooting positions either. Doesn't know how to finish either.

Several years from now at the age of 27 he'll be playing exactly the same way.

Look at some YouTube videos. He has made some insane runs.
 

FCBarca

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Doesn't surprise me they are often together - they're all French and speak the same language, more so for Ousmane since he doesn't appear to know any Spanish
 

Laplacian

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The classic ''he looks wordclass on youtube but it's shit in reality''.Dembele will never be worldclass where it matters:eek:n the field.

LOL, exactly.

Marcus Rashford's 2020/2021 highlights looks cool on Youtube too, but everyone who watches Man Utd knows the guy has been hot trash for several months now.
 

Horatio

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Doesn't surprise me they are often together - they're all French and speak the same language, more so for Ousmane since he doesn't appear to know any Spanish

Honestly I think at this point Ousmane speaks decent amount of Spanish. it's very easy for French speakers and he can be seen communicating with Messi on the pitch.
 

vuji_31

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What's the point of having "world class traits" if you don't put them to good use? With his acceleration, agility, and technical ability he should be able to make runs like prime Hazard or Ribery. Instead he just kicks and runs because he lacks imagination. Doesn't know how to get into shooting positions either. Doesn't know how to finish either.

Several years from now at the age of 27 he'll be playing exactly the same way.

It is our playing style. He would be better in team like Liverpool,Bayern etc.
Obviously, he is not good as prime Hazard who was top 3 player in the world.

He needs situations like Sane, where he is left one on one against defender.

If you watched the game against Sevilla, there were always two players against him with Firpo doing nothing behind his back.

It is obvious that he is not using 100 percent of his potential. If he can maximize it will be great addition to our squad.
 

Joan

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His numbers are very low. Might be more mature than before, not by much while at it, but isn't producing much.
 

Laplacian

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It is our playing style. He would be better in team like Liverpool,Bayern etc.
Obviously, he is not good as prime Hazard who was top 3 player in the world.

He needs situations like Sane, where he is left one on one against defender.

If you watched the game against Sevilla, there were always two players against him with Firpo doing nothing behind his back.

It is obvious that he is not using 100 percent of his potential. If he can maximize it will be great addition to our squad.

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Have you been watching him at all this season? Whenever he's in a 1 on 1 situation with a CB during a counter, with only the GK behind the CB, he takes like 5 unnecessary touches and gives the opposition's defensive line time to recuperate. Or he fake shots and passes the ball straight to the CB. lol

Also, there are plenty of opportunities for him to get in those situations. If he knew how to move off the ball he'd get in those situations. Often when we have the ball, and the CB on his side is isolated and there's a perfect empty half-space to take advantage of Dembele is no where to be found. Why? Because he's busy standing on the sideline waiting for the ball to come to him so he can kick and run it, and mindlessly cross it. That's his comfort zone now, and I'm seeing very little willingness from him to change it. Fati, Messi, and Trincao get into those positions quite a lot for a good reason; their movement. Dembele simply lacks that ability.
 

Jadentheman

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148m for a player that plays like a 30m winger LOL

He was overvalued because Dortmund knew Barcelona was desperate after Neymar's departure. It's just economics of the transfer market and how Neymar's sell inflated every player's worth. Add on top public desperation from the club to find a replacement.
 

Joan

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He was overvalued because Dortmund knew Barcelona was desperate after Neymar's departure. It's just economics of the transfer market and how Neymar's sell inflated every player's worth. Add on top public desperation from the club to find a replacement.

Is it just that, though? Barca might've overpaid due to reasons you mentioned, but they saw much more in him than he's currently showing. This wasn't expected for him, though, they might've had fears it's how it would end.
 

FinBarcelonafan

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Is it just that, though? Barca might've overpaid due to reasons you mentioned, but they saw much more in him than he's currently showing. This wasn't expected for him, though, they might've had fears it's how it would end.

He lost a lot of development time because of his injuries. He could be better than what he is today without the injuries.

I personally see a lot of development this season. He seems better defensively and making less easy errors with the ball. To me, he is not yet finished product. He still keeps developing.
 

Andresito

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25 goals, 20 assists in 5695 minutes. Which equals 1 G/A every 126 minutes.
At Dortmund he was at 1 G/A every 108 min.

He has shown a lot of development this season so far. Next step would be to provide more goals.
 
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