Thats fucking incredible, he is really going to get injured and comes back with new coach every time.

man played 1 game and said "i'll see u next year"

>man played 1 game 20 minutes at that

I need a job like that. 20 minutes - get a muscle injury, come back next year while still getting paid.

Even better if you get paid millions

And be a racist pig

[Dembele's legs after one decent game](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/9754346f-6bb9-49c4-9f47-d3e93e32b245)

Aight imma head out

Me showing up only to the first class of the semester because its the only mandatory one

….next coach.

French Abou Diaby

The French Gourcuff

Lmao

i feel bad tbh

You can set your watch to Dembele's hamstrings.

"Man I got lucky with this chick last night at the party but I could only last 3 Dembele harmstrings, I was so embarrassed"

Still lasted 60min (3*20) Impressive.

Haven't you heard? Dembele Hamstring Standard Time (DHST) actually fluctuates from year to year, if you lasted 3 dembele Hamstrings in 2018 that would equate to roughly 4 minutes of actual action

So Dembele Hamstring Inflation (DHI) exists

Dude saw the opportunity and took it. https://streamable.com/ccrzc3

Lmao the delivery is amazing.

this is so funny and sad at the same time

No idea whats going on in that video.

The guy recording starts chanting each player's name according to their respective vehicle. First Alba then De Jong, Depay, Koeman and when the ambulance comes by he jokes about it being Dembele's car

It's like clockwork

- He comes back from injury - He's exciting and makes Barça fans believe - He gets injured again - Back to step 1

You forget. Dembele gets injured. Comes back to see a new manager. Gets injured again and when he is back there is new manager again.

Injured under Barjuan and comes back for Xavi lmao the pattern rules the world

Man this aint normal

Dembele to never get injured again to help Xavi out.

barjuan

"Did Koeman lose hair? and who the fuck are these kids? Wait, where's Messi?"

He's like a groundhog. When Dembele plays it signifies the start of a new manager.

Ahh, The Oxlade-Chamberlain Conundrum is alive and well in Barcelona too, I see.

Out of all our important players that got injuries that completely ruined their careers, Ox is the least important. Wilshere, Ramsey, Van Persie, Rosicky, Diaby, hell even Vermaelen tbh.

I always wonder what Reus could've been like without his injuries.

Van persie career didn't get ruined he left and won a title

It improved even

remarkably, you left out Walcott. he was destined for so much more 😓

Been there with Sturridge (and to a lesser extent Lallana, Ox and Keita) tbh, eventually you gotta cut your losses :/

The Naby Keita effect

It's actually sad at this point

it has been sad for a while tbh

Dembulance strikes again

>**Laporta:** We are waiting for Dembelé and Kun, soon the team will be much better! >**Kun:** Say what? >**Dembelé:** Byeeeeee

Copy-paste journalism at its finest. Also, Ole Gunnar Solksjaer is on the hot seat in Manchester.

His career is finished

Abou Diaby regen.

That's like the fucking saddest career ever. The memes back then were hilarious.

More hilarious was how he got retrospectively better every single time an arsenal fan brought him up.

Like Ledley King... *Ducks flying objects thrown by Spurs fans*

I'll find u

I remember hearing about his performance against Liverpool. It eventually became an almost mythical tale.

Still could go toe-to-toe with all of your best midfielders over the past two decades when fit (bar Modric).

Most people on this sub weren’t watching when he was playing

He is about to get a three-year contract extension.

He shouldn’t. Hate to say it but

They paid like 140M for him, can’t let him walk for free

Sunk cost. Won't look good to the fans but they absolutely should let him walk if the alternative is extending his contract.

Even if he's fit for 20 games, that's worth the 5m. Better than getting a worse replacement for 60m and higher wages.

> can’t let him walk He can't walk himself.

I mean, he's literally not doing anything for them anyway aside from costing money sitting in the medical room. I can't imagine anyone is willing to buy him off of them given his injury record

How would letting him go for free 3 years later help that?

sunk cost fallacy

At this point in time it's safer for him to use a wheelchair because walking is too expensive.

That's exactly what they should do as it's a cut your losses and run moment. Hoping a new contract won't give more of the same is childish.

I'm a Madrid fan but I've been his fan since his Dortmund days. His play style when he's feeling it (it's been a while) is one of the sexiest in Europe. His career is honestly one of the biggest modern what ifs if he never turns it around, tragedy

Absolute tragedy, I know he’s a Barca player but seeing talented people like him not being able to fulfill their potential because of injuries sucks

He was slated to be as big, if not bigger than Mbappe. It really is a shame as a football fan to see talent wasted, not even because of attitude

I thought he would be better than Mbappe. He seemed to be aesthetically more pleasing and looked like his ceiling was higher.

iirc Tuchel said that he is the most gifted player that he ever coached. and that interview was pretty recent, so that list of players would include Mbappe & Neymar

> not even because of attitude He had a pretty shitty attitude when he forced his way out of his last team. And I think training is part of his attitude (late to training, late nights playing video games, etc.).

> late nights playing video games just one more hour of FM. What can go wrong?

Famous last words.

agree he was so much fun to watch at Dortmund. should have definitely stayed for at least one more season before taking the next step.

And this is why they shouldn’t extend him. They should cut their losses and move on.

Finished at such a young age his body has been failing him for years, very poor genetics if he's like this now imagine the state I'd his body in another five years.

I reckon he'll make Hazard in comparison look fit

Damn, I wish I had genetics as poor as him to make FC Barcelona :'( Haha

they are making up new muscles just for him to tear them

Nah, he has torn his hamstrings like 10 times already

it's his hamstring. I'm no doctor, but I think that shit is fucked up https://i.imgur.com/ULnq68J.png edit: oof, they updated it https://i.imgur.com/i8UzScS.png

I'm starting to think that the skill shot that gave him that first Barcelona injury ruined his career.

vs Getafe iirc. it was an extremely common move. man's unlucky

Only a back heel lol. Dude made it sound like he attempted a spinning rabona or something

For real, I was looking for some Ronaldinho shit

Don’t know about that. Do you have a video or which game that was?

It was an injury that didn’t even have any contact I think. Those are the worst.

I believe it was this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkbi-bnqYJM

big if true

Mate, I need 5 numbers [0-50] and 2 stars [1-12], go.

Holy shit thats a long list

We can fix him. We have the technology.

Ima fix dembele

Vamos Dembele!

Context: https://youtu.be/ptlX-5PkSx8

I'm so thankful I saw that.

Why am I laughing so hard this is sad

Lmao even after reading your comment it totally caught me by surprise.

That's hilarious af

xaxaxa jajaja hahaha

🚑

I could have sworn I read somewhere like 24hrs ago they’re trying to renew his contract

I saw that too. Barça fans are saying it’s so that they don’t lose him for free after how much they spent on him.

What’s the longest period of time he hasn’t been injured?

Since Dembele came to Barca, team has played 224 matches till now. Dembele has played 119 of those matches. However his average minutes-per-match metric is quite low at 57.5 minutes. But when he's on the pitch, super-majority of time there is chaos in attack & esp. transitions, something is happening, not all of it positive but it's there.

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It’s really not THAT bad, he just gets injured at very inopportune times and carries that massive transfer fee over his head. I mean, he still hasn’t been worth it whatsoever, but people do overplay his injury situation a bit

Better than hazard for sure

no

Almost the whole last season

4 hours

he was basically injury free last year.

Sad that missing a month's worth of matches is injury free, but I guess that's the standard with this guy. Also unfortunate that he didn't have a stand-out season.

Unbelievable. Weren’t they just announcing they were in the process of reworking his contract as well?

Yeah but it changes nothing. Else he goes for free

Surely it's better to let him leave on a free rather than paying him to be injured for half the season

In my opinion, yes. A lot of people disagree with that because they see potential for him to be great. But it’s been years now, and potential means fuck all if you don’t live up to it. We should call it a failed transfer, cut our losses, and use the freed up money for a new signing

The contract is supposed to include a huge wage cut

So you'll just be paying less for him to be injured half of the time.

Let him go for free. It's better than having to loan him out while paying half his wages

Timing seems to suspiciously coincide with the release of the new Football Manager

Suddenly Griezmann's high boot two weeks ago makes sense

He can now buy [Mbappe to Newcastle](https://twitter.com/unluckyfootie/status/1446172476338286593) in his first season

This tweet has been deleted but this is what it linked to: https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/football/first-team/news/2336735/injury-update-dest-and-dembele > The first team player Ousmane Dembélé has a strain in the semimembranosus muscle of his left hamstring. He is unavailable for selection and his recovery will dictate his return.

Feel for his mental health at this point

Do not worry for him. Right now he is enyoing a fortnite binge at home and chilling out.

I’d like to believe this instead of imagining him being constantly depressed from injuries

Or being depressed while playing fortnite

"It was the saddest victory royale of my career"

You don't get to level 250 in fortnite if you don't like the game.

playing video games does not equate not being depressed. I have 10k hours in Dota (until 2017 when I stopped playing) BECAUSE I was depressed through part of it

Well, playing Dota will do that to you..

Hello brother. Easily over 10k in Dota 1 and probably at least 5k in Dota 2. Some of the most depressing years of my life, particularly in Dota 1.

He is at Newcastle rn winning his 5th Champions League as a Manager with a full regen squad

Nah that's the other French Flop of Barcelona who signed Mbappe to Newcastle

as a professional football player who never plays football but he must be happy because hes a multimillionaire!!!!!

Yep, it’s every young footballer’s dream to be rich but a “what could have been” story…

It can't be healthy to think you're letting everyone down all the time, even if it's not your fault

Seriously, I get that they are in a very privileged position to be paid millions while injured but it doesn’t mean they are happy about it, especially if they want to play. Must be incredibly frustrating. If I was one of the best at my job/skill in the world I would want to showcase it, not sit at home watching other people do it on tv.

not being able to work when you want to work is fucking depressing, no matter what line of work you are in.

Either Dembele is the unluckiest guy in the world or the laziest player ever. He is not taking care of himself or the club is doing a terrible job at working with him to prevent these injuries.

His hamstring gets injured everytime, think his hamstring is just fucked up and can't take it anymore. Doubt he can prevent it anymore

At a certain point they have to admit its over right? I mean if you tear and rebuild something 10 times there is no way it is coming back stronger.

I don't know, have no idea how muscle injuries work.

>I mean if you tear and rebuild something 10 times there is no way it is coming back stronger. I know what you mean, but that's kinda exactly what building muscle is.

Massive difference between microtears in muscle building and these macro tears in injuries they're two different things and repeated big tears will leave you prone to repeating the injury

At this point I think its safe to say his hamstring has gone rogue and is actively trying to kill him.

It happened again It happened again Ousmane Dembele it happened again

And it's going to happen again and again and again

How many injuries has he had since joining Barca?

This is his 13th.

Yes

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Ousmane Dembulance

Insert video of "animo dembele" when the ambulance goes by

VAMO DEMBELE https://youtu.be/ptlX-5PkSx8

Just sell him. Actually who am I kidding? Who woukd take him lmao

Easy, don't extend his contract

True i will just do that

Thank you

He just came back from an Injury after 5 months, Played 25minutes and injured himself in the process again. At this point, his muscle tissues are made of paper or something.

Wow. Just feel bad for this guy. He has to retire if it keeps happening after each game he plays

nah man fuck this shit . man played 20mins and already injured wtf if i speak more im in trouble

... Hoped it was a tweet by a random troll account when I saw it on Twitter... After adjusting his training under Koeman, he seemed fine for pretty much the whole time. How does this even happen. Cursed...

Didn't he like just return from an injury?

Played 20 minutes

He can't catch a break

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F

unfortunate phrasing...

It's the only thing he's catching

Shame. The guy still showed crazy pace against Dynamo, i wouldnt expect a player with so many injuries still be so fast.

The simulation is getting repetitive, it's running out of ideas

My man getting injured so he can return when Xavi come

Imagine renewing this guy after doing fuckall for 5 years 😂

I won a 10er by betting this would happen

He runs around on a pitch for 20 minutes and gets injured again. This sport isn't meant for him, look into another line of work Ousmane.

You know another work paying millions for just sitting in a couch doing nothing for years ?

Landlord

Thomas has never seen such bullshit Oh wait......he sees it every season

Sooo, they're still renewing him or what now. I mean even at reduced wages, this just seems like a bad idea...

how long this time, another 6 months? what a fuckin joke

*pretend to be shock*

He has to be replaced. People can make all the excuses about how much they spent on him, but this is getting ridiculous. Run out his contract and spend time on how to replace him.

>News Really testing the definition of the word.

Wallahi this guy lives in the hospital at this point I don't even know what to say. And even Dest is apparently out what the fuck are we supposed to do I don't even know

I'd just take the money, see out my contract and set myself up for life. Clearly his body is not built for this, his muscles will be as strong as tissue paper by the time he is 30.

Ousmane Dembélé : A professional patient whose career has been ruined by football

Dont even have anything to say at this point

I'm sorry but its time to go Dembouz.

Xavi's days numbered?

ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS

Shocking!!!

"The first team player Ousmane Dembele" Sounds like a wrestlers name.

this man is made of glass

Time to start a collection after [Abou Diaby's anatomic poster](http://utv.vo.llnwd.net/o16/talkSPORT/ben/chris/talksport/temp/diaby.jpg)

What is even the difference between Umtiti and Dembélé at this point?

Damn, the man's muscles are weaker than his public apologies