Dembélé a day and a half without giving signs of life and is excused
as having gastroenteritis.
Dembele is once again
splashed with controversy. The young French striker has just adapted to
Barcelona. The situation begins to be more than worrying. And the last episode
starring 'the mosquito' doesn't help to reduce the tension.
The surprise has jumped
in the training in the Sports City of Sant Joan Despí. A work session
programmed by Ernesto Valverde which Ousmane Dembélé did not attend. And it is
that the matter has not ended there.
Some of the club's
employees tried to contact the Frenchman, although without success. More than
an hour and a half later, the striker showed signs of life. Once they managed
to talk to the player, they sent him home to the medical service to confirm the
illness and treat it. A few hours later, official club sources pointed to gastroenteritis
as the reason for his absence.
Some people don't believe
it.
It's not the first
absence in a French training under strange circumstances. Some doubt this
version and point out that if it had really been a gastrointestinal affection,
the footballer would have warned to inform of his absence from the preparatory
session.
There are those who blame
these delays to the supposed bad life that Dembele leads in his home in
Barcelona. And it is that not only the party causes havoc among the soccer
players. Video games with friends until late hours and junk food would be
hampering the performance of crack azulgrana.
Dembélé has already
starred in an episode like this and social networks are aware of it.
"Gastroenteritis," some asked. The comings and goings of footballers
no longer go unnoticed and people are getting tired.
Beyond the official
communiqué issued by the club, the hermeticism with which the subject is being
treated is total. Some begin to wonder why the heavyweights in the dressing
room are covering it up.
Barcelona didn't like
this incident at all. Their delays and absences in training have ceased to be
seen as something casual and they attribute it to the lack of attitude that the
player is showing this season.
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Do you think Dembele is having an attitude that could be justified by
his age?
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What do you think about this player's behaviour?
I agree that Dembelé is really young player and maybe the fame got through his head. Apart from that the gastroenteritis has been used for a lot of years to avoid some issues with a player or between players and managers and this could be why it's raising suspicion. Without knowing if the information is true or false, I personally think that Dembelé is a good player that hasn't adapted to the Barcelona's game and it's not feeling comfortable when he is inside the field, in this aspect, the heavyweights of the team have to talk with him and explain him what is to become a successful football player and that isn't only performing well in the pitch, it's a work of 24 hours a day, during 364 days a years (you can only rest the next day of winning a competition).
ResponEliminaCESC
totally true Cesc,we think that you can be my good player but if you do not adapt and these by other things, you will not achieve success in this life.
EliminaWe have to take into account that Dembele is a 20 year old guy, sometimes people tend to forget that footballers are also normal people with their daily lifes and we ask them to be 24 hours a day only thinking about football. Having said this i believe its unjustified his attitude because he is earning a lot of money every year and he should be professional with his job
ResponEliminathank you for your comment Toni, we agree with you but it is the Barça, you know gives you no other option, then if you do not do whatever it takes for the fans to be happy with you, the fans will end up asking you to leave.
EliminaI find It very stupid of Dembele acting this way at one of the best football clubs in the world. For most footballers it is a dream to play for this club and he is just not taking it serious. It seems to me that he has a lack of stucture and decency in his life.
ResponEliminaHowever he also had the same behaviour in Dortmund, so Barcelona could have known how he usually behaves. I am not sure what Barcelona will do, but I don't think that he can continue this behavior.
It wasn't gastronteritis, it was hangover. As Piqué said, we have to help Dembelé because football is 24 hours a day. He's young, yes, but he's also a professional who plays for the best club in the world. He can't do this. He's out of the team next year because Neymar is coming back. Good luck Ousmane for your career.
ResponEliminaSeriously, are you saying that Neymar will return to the barça.Roger you think that the fans of the barça will accept it?
Eliminathank you for your comment!
Everyone knows that Dembélé is a young player that has a lot to improve on and off the pitch but someone should help him with the discipline. It shouldn't be permitted to arrive always late, don't go to the training session putting excuses and advise the club 2 hours later. He should know that he is a professional playing in the best team in the world and he can't act like that, he is young but not a kid.
ResponEliminaDembele is an effective player, who understands the meaning of the game very well and is very fast although he must play in a simpler way. He is just as good on the right as he is on the left, thanks to his technical ability with both his right and left legs. His coaches cannot detect which is his best foot.
ResponEliminaWell Alex, thank you for your comment, He's good, but what do you think about his behavior?
EliminaPere Teixidó: Obviously Dembele is a great player but I think that Barça precipitated paying that amount of money for him. Now that we have him signed the minimum is to make him follow the rules and discipline him. I think Valverde is doing a great job with him and should even be a little harder. If he continues with this attitude they should sell him in the winter market.
ResponEliminaThis time it might have been stomach flu, but if the player showed signes of lack of dedication to the team in the past, it just doesn't show him in the best light. However if that wasn't true and the player just got drunk the night before, then he should be held liable, but I imagine that the team has experience in handling young players and will find ways to discipline the French forward.
ResponEliminaJon:
ResponEliminaFirst, what originally drew me to this article was the headline "Dembele not showing signs of life". My first interpretation of this was that Dembele is either dead or dying. I found that this was not the case. In actuality it is a blog about young athletes coming into a lot of money and whether or not they can handle the stardom. I've found that in a majority of these cases, a veteran is usually able to take these young athletes under their wing and solve the problem. I think this will be the case with Dembele as well due simply to the large number of veterans FC Barcelona has on its team.