Ousmane Dembele would be £80m wasted
Liverpool want to sign Barcelona starlet Ousmane Dembele for a massive £80 million, but it would be money wasted. This is why.
The Express has reported that Jurgen Klopp is interested in being re-united with the French forward in a move that would blow a lot of the transfer kitty, but he must have serious reservations about the deal.
Before we even touch on anything else, Ousmane Dembele has got a really bad injury history. Since September 2017, he’s missed a total of 82 games due to a combination of hamstring strains and various muscle injuries – say Transfermarkt.
That’s a massive amount of football to miss in less than three years, and he’s picked up four separate problems during 2019/2020. That means there is either a real problem with the player and his muscle makeup, or Barcelona are doing something wrong with his treatment.
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We’ve seen fast, athletic players been cut down before their time because of hamstring injuries – Michael Owen is one of the most tragic of these – but it happens all over the Premier League and you never want to be stuck with an expensive sicknote on your books.
He was reported as turning up nearly 30 minutes late for a Champions League game against AC Milan and went on strike to force his move through to Barcelona from Dortmund, but again, his team mates weren’t happy his attitude.
Ousmane Dembele is extremely driven, and that’s a good thing. He nearly left Rennes and quit football when they refused to offer him a first team contract – only to come out of the stand-off with what he wants.
But it seems like he lacks the application to knuckle down and give everything to the side, and that is one thing Klopp will not tolerate.
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It’s for that reason that this deal is surprising. Not because he lacks talent, which the French international doesn’t, but because his injury record and the stories about his personality are just so anti-Liverpool.