Displaced. Forgotten. Watched with magnifying glass This is how Ousmane Dembelé feels in the dressing room of FC Barcelona. Things are not going as expected.
The player of the 105 million euros (plus another 40 million in variables) does not prove, or by far, worth the money it cost. Have a problem.
The French winger feels fast section in the locker room of the club. It fails to integrate well. The heavyweights are not giving him the love he needs.
It is not easy for a young man of 20 years old reach one of the best football clubs in the world, a historic, with the pressure of being the signing most expensive in the history .
Although he no longer holds that honor, Coutinho took it away in January at a cost of 120 million (plus another 40 million more), now he has another problem.
The arrival of the Brazilian had to reduce that pressure, but at the same time it has generated a problem: more competition. Being Iniesta and Rakitic untouchable with what they are demonstrating, playing becomes expensive.
A square between Coutinho, Paulinho and Dembelé
There is a free place for important matches and they have to play between three players: Coutinho , Paulinho and Dembelé himself .
While in Champions has the advantage of not having to compete with Coutinho, before Chelsea it seems clear that Ousmane will return to heat bench.
The most worrying thing is that after his bad game against Getafe, Ernesto Valverde also seems to have lost confidence in the French winger.
In front of the Eibar , Dembelé did not even have a single minute . He saw from the bench as Aleix Vidal occupied the square that, theoretically, corresponds to him.
Against Chelsea he hopes to have his chances, although Valverde has not yet decided what to do with him in such a decisive game. If the displayed Dembelé of Getafe can be a drag.
Umtiti and Digne, their only supports
Meanwhile, the French soccer player looks for guilty. He believes that his adaptation problems respond to a large extent to the lack of support he has had in the club's dressing room .
Specifically, from the surroundings of the forward they point to five heavyweights of the Catalan squad : Leo Messi , Luis Suárez , Gerard Piqué, Sergio Busquets and Andres Iniesta.
None of the captains and veterans of the team is spoiling the young footballer, who only finds support in Samuel Umtiti and Lucas Digne. The rest is pure competition.
His difficulties with the language do not help either, but he misses a heavyweight to help him integrate. Instead, he has to settle for Piqué's practical jokes . A drama
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