Ousmane Dembele

feggydinho

Senior Member
He’s playing as a false 9 lately. Would easily add more to our game than Lewy’s corpse, much more fluid, tricky and fast
I know Koeman tried him in that position against PSG back then, he made good runs and got chances but his finishing was bad. Now he's different with shot accuracy of about 54% (his best so far in his career). Man is having his best season at 27, similar thing can be said for Raphinha at 28. They deserve a thumbs up, not everyone gets that transformation, remains to be seen if it's just a one-season thing.
 

Porque

Senior Member
Seems LE is getting it together for second half season.

Let's see if he and PSG keep on the up, or if it's a purple patch.

One thing I notice, which they didn't really happen before, and I'm talking in the Mbappe and galactico days. Is that the team looks a bit more serious, motivated and humble than before.
 

Birdy

Senior Member
Dembele is having a great season, but we're not exactly missing him unless you're delusional enough to believe he would be happy to be a rotational player or be as effective as Raphinha has been in his role at the LW.

Or unless you prefer this retarded mercenary over Lamine Yamal.

Dude we are playing with 2 proper players only for 3 positions up front

You think he would not have a place here?
 

serghei

Senior Member
It's not like he can play as a central striker. He can't play instead of Yamal. He would be amazing as a squad player though, to rotate with Yamal and Raphinha.
 

DonAK

President of FC Barcelona
Dude we are playing with 2 proper players only for 3 positions up front

You think he would not have a place here?

He would, but I find it doubtful he'd be starting for us as a False 9. Flick will probably persist with Lewandowski in the biggest games until the end of the season while resting/benching him from time to time. In the summer we'll hopefully sign a striker.

He cannot play the role Raphinha plays on the left. So would you rather have him over Lamine or do you think he would accept being a rotation player that would fight for a starting spot vs. Lamine Yamal?

Doubtful.

Besides he negotiated for a buyout clause himself. One he had every intention to use and which he did to join PSG after Barca had invested so much in him from hiring people to wake him up, personal chefs and what not. Xavi was willing to go to war for him as well and he still left. It's like crying over spilt milk.
 

feggydinho

Senior Member
He would, but I find it doubtful he'd be starting for us as a False 9. Flick will probably persist with Lewandowski in the biggest games until the end of the season while resting/benching him from time to time. In the summer we'll hopefully sign a striker.

He cannot play the role Raphinha plays on the left. So would you rather have him over Lamine or do you think he would accept being a rotation player that would fight for a starting spot vs. Lamine Yamal?

Doubtful.

Besides he negotiated for a buyout clause himself. One he had every intention to use and which he did to join PSG after Barca had invested so much in him from hiring people to wake him up, personal chefs and what not. Xavi was willing to go to war for him as well and he still left. It's like crying over spilt milk.
I feel he would've slowed down Yamal's path if he stayed cause Raphinha getting injured allowed Xavi to freely use Yamal then, so you can imagine how it would've been for Yamal to start if Dembele stayed then. His leaving was best for all parties as we have Yamal who has a higher ceiling, Raphinha is also performing at his peak, and Dembele (he needed to start afresh, without being judged for his Liverpool miss or injuries or funny behavior from time to time, plus the higher PSG wage was great, so it was a perfect deal from PSG too, they got strengthed at low cost, so I guess all Party benefited from the deal, maybe we would've wanted more money)

I don't feel like we miss him at RW, since we've also got Yamal and Raphinha, if we were to poke a forward from PSG, then I'd want us getting Barcola
 

te amo barca

Blaugrana al vent
It's not like he can play as a central striker. He can't play instead of Yamal. He would be amazing as a squad player though, to rotate with Yamal and Raphinha.
That's what he's doing and how he got 14 goals in his last 9 games. Granted he didn't play all of them as number 9 but the back-to-back hattricks are from CF as false 9
 

MonteCuler

Well-known member
Those hattricks only speak volume of how shit the opponents are, not how good he is

Stuttgart got rolled over by Zvezda 5-1 not long ago. Brest is French farmers that don't know how to defend
 

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