11 - Ousmane Dembélé - V1

FCBfan22 said:

Well, if that's the case, it's pretty stupid from our medical staff to do that. We should have eased him back in, not throw him in every game.

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Imagine this:
Dembele returns in 2 Months.
He plays the first game for 20 minutes and he says that he feels a slight discomfort.
Doctors check him and there is nothing wrong, just a discomfort.

Would you play him in the next match for 20-30 minutes or would you return him ONLY to a light running for the next 2 weeks?
If you play him, a discomfort may turn into a new long term injury.
If you don't play him and let him only train for 2 weeks, he won't get a match fitness.
Fine, imagine that he trains only for 2 weeks and returns to a match after that.
Then again he feels a discomfort because an actual match is different from a training.
He goes to doctors, tells that he felt discomfort again and doctors can't find any injuries.

If you get my point?
It may happen that he will feel "something" for the next 1-2 or even for the next 10 matches.
If we'll bring him back only to trainings each time when he will feel discomfort, he may never return to a serious football again.

14 years ago, I have broke my knee ligaments (as an amateur footballer) and had to operate them.
After the operation, I was afraid to play (amatuer) football for 1 year.
I was just running and jogging.
When I started to play again, I felt discomfort (in the knee) after every match (even if I played only 10 minutes) for the next 6 Months.
Or it was slightly swollen or blue at a few spots.

My point: a discomfort is sometimes ONLY because you haven't played/run for months.
Sometimes it is psychological.
And sometimes it is because something is wrong.

But imo, every person who ever had some serious injury, will feel discomfort for some time when he returns on a field.
Imo, doctors sometimes can't be 100% sure whether a discomfort is just a minor discomfort due to a lack of fitness or something bad will happen.

I see that everyone is jumping on doctors on this topic as if they are some idiots in this story.
Just go back to a beginning of my post. If Dembele will stop playing each time when he'll feel something, he may never return.
Without matches his muscles will get weaker and weaker and when he'll eventually return, he will be prone to 100s of new, different injuries.
You know how players often after knee injuries suffer muscle injuries and similar, because they haven't run and played for Months?

People can see that Dembele is the natural successor to Messi at FC Barcelona, who's 30 now and won't have many more years left playing to the high level he's always done. Dembele being only 20 will take over as the main man at FC Barcelona, it's only a matter of time. He just needs to be looked after more and integrated into the team better.

Pedro said:

People can see that Dembele is the natural successor to Messi at FC Barcelona, who's 30 now and won't have many more years left playing to the high level he's always done. Dembele being only 20 will take over as the main man at FC Barcelona, it's only a matter of time. He just needs to be looked after more and integrated into the team better.

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I hope you're right. For now we just need him healthy and playing again. It's such a shame to see him sidelined like this.

FinBarcelonafan said:

I hope you're right. For now we just need him healthy and playing again. It's such a shame to see him sidelined like this.

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WTF is this leech still doing here? Get rid of him already, Farto. First Arda now Arda 2.0? Partying, cashing a fat cheque for the next 5+years while 'injured'. Clearly, he's going to PSG and pull a Neymar.




#sarcasm #ithoughtyouwereserioussincetherearepeoplewhowould-dishoutanargumentlikethatandthisisaridicolousandexaggeratedhashtag

Please don’t be our bale

barcafan161 said:

Please don’t be our bale

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Dembale.

This guy probably got injured sitting on the bench waiting to come on as a sub.

damn that is very unfortunate!

Givenchy said:

this situation is fucking depressing. not even arsed about the fee i just want to see him play and progress

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This!

This is a minor muscle injury it seems tbh, 3 weeks out isn't a big deal and doesn't make him injury prone.
Time is depressing, but hopefully this will be all forgotten in few months

khaled_a_d said:

This is a minor muscle injury it seems tbh, 3 weeks out isn't a big deal and doesn't make him injury prone.

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Sure, if this would be his first injury then it would be considered minor but he's just coming back from a more serious injury so it's understandable people have concerns he could become injury prone. For now I still don't think he is but we should be careful with him to not turn into the next Bale.

We have been very lucky with injuries over the years. Didn't want to jinx it by saying it before but its a good time to admit now.

140 million for someone made of glass

This needs to be sorted soon, he needs to hit the ground running when he returns so he can be a starter next season.

Messi aint getting any younger.

Messi983 said:

Sure, if this would be his first injury then it would be considered minor but he's just coming back from a more serious injury so it's understandable people have concerns he could become injury prone. For now I still don't think he is but we should be careful with him to not turn into the next Bale.

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The first one was a minor injury that he didn't report (stupid from his behalf) and it lead to relatively major one, both are muscle injuries who are different one and checking transfermarket they are the 1st injuries in his professional career.
So yes, way too early for people to start acting like orthopedist and calling him made of glass or injury prone