From Barcelona failure to the best scorer toe: a thousand faces Usman Dembele

The most successful player in winter in European toppings was the winger of PSG, whose realization was the subject of ridicule recently.

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Usman Dembele scored 21 goals in the last 17 matches for PSG in all tournaments.

Salah, Kane, Lewandowski, careful – in 2025 everyone lagged behind.

It began on December 15 with Lyon, and then it was no longer stopped-Monaco, Monaco, St. Etienne, Man City, Reims, Stuttgart, Brest, Monaco, Brest, Lyon, Bryosin, Lill.

Many of them were scored 2-3 times, becoming the first in the history of PSG, who designed two in a row of hat tricks.

“We are witnessing the phenomenon,” writes Le Parisien. “Dembele is involved in the struggle for the golden ball. He is as important as Kilian Mbappe or Robert Lewandowski and, of course, more influential than Erling Dutch.”

For everyone who saw Dembele’s six seasons in Barcelona, ​​these words will seem anecdote.

In the autumn, Usman had the usual 1 goal in 11 matches and a quarrel with Luis Enrique, because of which he did not get to the arsenal. Once again in his career his future hung on the hair.

“Not to take it was my best solution. The decision of the year. Everything else did Dembele himself,” Lucho praps.

L’Equipe It reminds that the last in League 1 in adulthood, such a rapid take-off of performance was also demonstrated by Yuri Georcaeff in 1994.

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Dembele, of course, not Georcaeff.

Rather, he is a benzema. In the last season, Karim scored for Real Laiga 5 goals, but as soon as Krish left – 21.

Dembele received the same benefit from leaving Kilian Mbappe.

Last season, while Mbappe played the Central Forward, Dembele scored 3 goals in 26 rounds, carefully performing the role of inverted winger on the right flank. It was really useful – the best in PSG for expected assistants, transfers to a penalty, successful strokes, moving the ball forward through a pass and dribbling.

At least twice – Against Real Madage and Marcel – Luis Enrique put Usman in the position of dozens, and that also worked:

“My concept is to force the best players to touch the ball more often. Usman is one of these.”

Well, but then Mbappe went – and a hole was formed in the psj, which could not be filled with Muani and Gonzalla Ramush.

What to do?

Enrique tried Dembele mainly from hopelessness. What happened then was surprised by himself, but Lucic is arrogant and never recognizes it.

It’s not just in goals. Usman is currently the leader of PSG by blows on the gate (7), touching the ball in another’s penalty (9). He began to open sharper and the team serves one in five of his jerks – twice as often as it was a year ago.

“Well, let’s not forget about partners,” the coach reminiscently. “Everyone is doing good work. Usman has already assisted 9 different performers.”

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Another metamorphosis of Dembele is now like Lewandowski.

“Kules” probably do not believe the ears, but Usman began to take care of his health, to train extra, he sat on a diet. In Paris, he employed the hired physiotherapist Jean-Batist Duo and former sprinter Salah Gaidi. According to the latter, they “optimize the performance of the client”.

“He trains a lot in the gym,” says the source in PSG. “He has his own staff. He is mature. He has learned a lot from Barcelona’s partners.”

Once in Catalonia, Dembele played only 127 of 228 matches, spent two years in the infirmary. The passion for computer games and harmful food made him a player who was most often fined on camping camp at 21-m the century.

Now this is all the story.

Usman here is like Ribery – married a Muslim rite, and religion discipline his life.

Now in Dembele’s daughter, he spends a lot of time with her.

Acquaintances say that Usman is obsessed only with football and even looks at the championship, where he cheers for Sanderland through the owner of the club Kiril Louis-Draifus, with whom she is friends.

When he goes to the field, Dembele is more and more like a Lewandowski. He scored 78% of the heads with one touch. Average XG His blow has grown from 0.1 to 0.26 in just half a year – that is, it now beats only from really favorable positions.

Usman is less likely to shoot at random – 16 out of the 17th of his last blocked attempts fall at a time when he was still a right Vnger.

Also L’Equipe He notes that Dembele was removed from the play left into the far corner, which he had never succeeded last season, and in general began to use the right leg more often, which he punched more precisely. Usman is ambidexter, he has a privilege to choose.

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In the best traditions of Ronaldo, Usman grunted under his nose after 3-0 with Brest, where he scored two goals.

“He believes that he had to score four, he had good moments. It is incredible to have him in this form,” Vitigna confessed.

The Portuguese, apparently, is not aware that Dembele was like Mbappe – a year before Kilian himself.

In season-2015/16 His debut at the age of 16 shocked the League 1. Dembele was mocking the defenders, the finished in any way; became the youngest in France who has ever scored 10 goals in the season.

At the time, no one doubted that in 2025 he would be celebrated every 70 minutes, eh.

It is later he is almost like robbed by a brother Pogba – became a victim of a bad environment.

It was raised by the street. Usman almost did not know his father, and the mother worked on two work, providing five children.

All the friends of the entrances of Evre came to him immediately, as big money appeared on the horizon. One of them, Sambage Bad, undertook his affairs, although he had no license, and this led to chaos and further courts, because Renne did not recognize him. It was said that Borussia generally wanted to give up Dembele, learning about his personal, but became François Pino – the owner of Renne and Puma, An important sponsor of “bumblebees”.

So, the problem guy hiding in Senegal during the pre-season, got into a great world, to which he was not ready.

And in a year Dembele-well, as Maradona in 1982-became the most expensive purchase of Barcelona, ​​and that money was almost crushed.

Diego at his time went to parties and drugs, and Usman fell into depression, did not leave the house, and until dawn he played in Pleystyshn, with his friends who came from Jevre. He could not speak and fit into the team with Messi, Buschetse, Grizmann, and meanwhile the press “caught up” for the 135 million. The Sun She published an article with 18 depictions of a portionlub where Usman was never, but simply lived nearby.

The social experiment failed – a child with slirs without education and upbringing did not cope with the elite level. She did not seem to get out of the wreckage of her own career-exactly like Dele Alley.

Dembele was very much helped by Hawa and Obameyang – only in the last half a year on Camp Nou he gladly went to the field.

Well, then Barsi became needed, and PSG took it for 50 million. It was the summer of 2023 outside.

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“I am not surprised. I am a fan and, looking at his current form, I think he should not set his own restrictions. He just has to continue and complete a year with a lot of victories,” says Madrid Mbappe.

They are well familiar, since one was 14 and the other was 13.

Kilian was not least due to the control from the father-trainer and mother-a professional handball player.

In Usman, it happened that he reveals the potential very late. This also happens. Salah went to a different level of 25, and about Marble at 24 knew gicks.

“I am in the right position now, I am in the role of the ninth number and focused on scoring goals. In Barcelona, ​​I was tied to the flank, and here Luis Enrique gives me a lot of freedom,” – the unexpected hero rejoices.

In January, League 1 recognized him as the best player of the moon, and in February, the triumph will probably continue. The Golden Boots is another landmark, Salah fled nearby. Louis Julie and Julien Stefan speak of a golden ball – prematurely, but still.

The new face of Dembele is mini-messy, that fights for Recognition and statuettes.

And now – Liverpool with whom he has his accounts.

In 2019, in the match with the Red Usman, he suggested the worst miss in life, shaking his pass on Leo’s counterattack. The scoreboard glowed 3-0, and it was not critical, but in two weeks on the “Enfield” 4-0 from Liverpool forced to remember the blow of Dembele many more times.

Will he be able to correct himself for that slap? Will it prove their “adulthood”?