Ousmane Dembélé has got into a mess of the fat ones. And all because of Philippe Coutinho. The French forward has assured his closest friends that the arrival of the Brazilian midfielder responds more to a whim of Leo Messi and Luis Suárez than to the real needs of the squad.
According to Dembélé , the two cracks missed a player with a profile like Neymar , a dribbler and a good passer like Coutinho , and he is afraid that with Philippe already on the squad, his options are waning.
Intimates
The case is that part of reason has. Suarez already coincided with Coutinho in his stage in Liverpool and they have a great friendship. And everyone who is Luis' friend is Leo's friend .
In fact, they have already moved to find crack a house in Castelldefels near where they live. An unmistakable sign that both the Uruguayan and the Argentine have received the Brazilian with open arms.
Other style
But the main fear that Ousmane has is not so much the friendship that the two cracks can have with the newcomer, but the influence that Leo has when deciding who plays and who does not.
The French forward is very aware that to succeed at Barça, two things are needed: to be a good player and for Messi to bless you. And this second part is what Dembélé sees the most difficult .
His style of play does not quite match the game of touch and possession so characteristic of Barcelona . The end is more of running and dribbling and looking for life on your own than to combine.
Quite the opposite of Coutinho . The Brazilian, with a mixed profile of Iniesta and Neymar , fits much more with the philosophy of the tiki taca that works so well for Valverde .
It will not be easy
At the moment few minutes have been able to play together the French and the two cracks of the front, but those who have played, is not that the connection has been brutal. In addition, with this new system implemented by Valverde , Dembélé will be relegated to inside and not to extreme in the 4-4-2, a position more than complicated and in which he is not used to playing.
In any case, Ousmane does not lose the hope of being able, in the near future, to count on Messi's ok . An ok that, without having played a minute, Coutinho already has .
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