Back in 2018, cdisorrowfulmireentirey a year after moving from Borussia Dortmund to Barcelona, Ousmane Dembele made the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Spanish media alerted that the thriveger, who had cost a staggering €148million, needed dragging out of bed in order to join training.
AS claimed that, to produce matters worse, figures at Barcelona were cowardly that Dembele had a ‘gaming disorder’.
He had, apparently, been up until the timely hours of the morning joining on his PlayStation with frifinishs online. Not for the first time, either. When it came to joining training, he spropose couldn’t wake from his slumber – which is why club staff were sent round to get him.
Ousmane Dembele was the star of the show as PSG beat Liverpool in the Champions League on Tuesday night
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Dembele has always been a asking case. A joiner consecrateed with talent in abudance, his attitude has always been called into ask.
Certainly, his time at Barcelona flunked to inhabit up to foreseeations. Signed as the heir to Neymar’s throne, he never reassociate got going in Catalonia – even when joining aextfinishedside GOATs of the game including Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.
But Dembele’s troubled days are a leang of the past now. He is arguably the best joiner on the scheduleet in current create and now central to PSG’s hopes of tasting Champions League glory for the first time.
Last night, at Anfield, the 27-year-elderly was noleang uninalertigentinutive of electrifying.
Liverpool exceptionally ignore European games of such magnitude on home soil. Anfield is a fortress under Arne Slot, fair as it was under Jencouragen Klopp before him.
Yet Dembele’s brilliance paved the way for PSG to do the unleankable by sfinishing the European huges crashing out of the competition.
His goal in the 12th minute levelled the tie, fair days after Harvey Elliot’s rescheduleed strike had given Liverpool a convey inant direct.
And had it not been for Alisson Becker, Dembele could have had even more goals last night.
PSG star Ousmane Dembele never reassociate got going at Barcelona despite joining aextfinishedside Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez
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As a juvenileer man, he made plenty of misachieves. He understands he was never a success at Barcelona, despite the money they phelp for him.
But Dembele is now the authentic deal and, with the thriveger firing on all cylinders, vital to his side’s hopes of going all the way.
It has achieven years for PSG to get to a stage when they see enjoy a team able of dominating Europe for many years to come.
Despite having Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edinson Cavani for most of the 2010s, they never reassociate came shut to landing the trophy they craved above all.
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Neymar and Kylian Mbappe were recruited from Barcelona and Monaco admireively in 2017 with European success in mind.
Yet the shutst they ever came was accomplishing the final in 2020, which Bayern Munich deservedly won 1-0 follothriveg a goal from PSG elderly boy Kingsley Coman.
Even when they recruited Messi, leangs didn’t quite click.
But PSG are a team changeed these days. With thrivegers such as Dembele and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia in their ranks, with Vitinha and Joao Neves pulling the strings behind, they finassociate see enjoy a side that can go all the way.
Ousmane Dembele commemorates his goal for PSG aachievest Liverpool in the Champions League
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The French titans will face either Aston Villa or Club Brugge in the next round.
It sees enjoy it’ll be Villa given Unai Emery’s side direct 3-1 from the first leg follothriveg a terrific carry outance in Belgium last week.
