Ousmane Dembele Injured for the Eighth Time in Barcelona

DBasia.news –  FC Barcelona brought in Ousmane Dembele with a dowry of 145 million euros in 2017 from Borussia Dortmund.

Barcelona clearly sees the potential for a bright future from Dembele to dare to spend more than 100 million euros. Especially a year later after purchasing Dembele from Dortmund, the player was involved in the France squad when they won the 2018 World Cup.

On several occasions, Dembele has become the differentiator of the final result of the match with goals, assists, or ability to get past opponents with dribbling techniques above average. But nothing is perfect, Dembele also has his flaws.

The player born in Vernon, May 15, 1997 has had problems with injuries. His background has not been good with a term that is often a ghost for these professional footballers. Two years joining Barcelona, ​​Dembele has been injured eight times.

It is not wrong to call Dembele a new ‘glass man’ in the era of modern football. The term is given to players who are fragile and easily injured. Previously, the nickname was pinned to the Dutch wing attacker, Arjen Robben.

At present, Robben has retired after 10 years playing for Bayern Munich (2009-2019). The nickname ‘glass man’ is looking for a new overseer and that figure deserves to be pinned to Ousmane Dembele.

The details, according to Sport-English, in the 2017-18 season, Dembele suffered a hamstring injury and underwent surgery to be absent for three months. After recovering from the injury, Dembele injured his muscle and ankle – this time the recovery was not long.

Then in the 2018-19 season, Dembele injured his muscle and ankle that made him to play inconsistently. This season (2019-20), Dembele has sudffered from a hamstring injury, missed five weeks and most recently, a calf injury when Barcelona won 2-0 over Getafe in week seven LaLiga.