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Ousmane Dembele set for Ballon d’Or: How he turned his profession round at PSG to grow to be the world’s greatest participant
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Ousmane Dembele set for Ballon d’Or: How he turned his profession round at PSG to grow to be the world’s greatest participant

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By Tycoon Herald 9 Min Read Published August 12, 2025
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It was one of many enduring photos of the Champions League closing. Ousmane Dembele, prepared in a sprinting place, awaiting each Inter goal-kick. He didn’t rating in Munich however by some means nonetheless managed to epitomise Paris Saint-Germain’s evolution.

“That is what it means to lead a team,” Luis Enrique later enthused. “Have you seen how he pressed? Tell me a nine in Europe who presses the goalkeeper and the centre-back like that?” Dembele places it succinctly. “I have changed a lot of things in my game.”

His personal transformation is among the many extra outstanding particular person redemption tales in soccer proper now – and Champions League victory is unlikely to be the tip of it for Dembele. Subsequent month, he might effectively be named because the winner of the lads’s Ballon d’Or.

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It could be deserved. His urgent, so astonishing in that closing, is perhaps the one metric that he didn’t prime final season. A finisher and a creator for PSG, Dembele was out on his personal as essentially the most impactful participant in European soccer. Simply have a look at this scatter graph…

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And what’s so wonderful about all of that is that no one actually anticipated it. Not now, no less than. Perhaps when he was a young person at Rennes and their then sporting director Mikael Silvestre was calling him essentially the most thrilling younger participant since Cristiano Ronaldo.

Maybe even some years later when Barcelona made him the second most costly participant in historical past. However even then the doubts about his angle have been rising. It has taken him till 28 to understand his potential after what he himself calls the wasted years.

Ousmane Dembele in Champions League win with PSG

As not too long ago as 2023, one recollects being in one in all Borussia Dortmund’s places of work, the membership that bought Dembele to Barca in 2017, listening to Lothar Matthaus opine on why Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz have been positive to flourish. Mentality and assist, he defined.

“We have different examples,” mentioned the 1990 Ballon d’Or winner. “Dembele… Crazy.” He then paused for impact earlier than actually accentuating that closing phrase. “Crazy.” There was no pushback among the many journalists within the room. Everyone understood his that means.

In Dortmund, the way of his exit colored his popularity. “He simply declines to do his job,” mentioned membership CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke. “He can’t behave this way,” mentioned one team-mate. “He does not have the right to do what he has done,” agreed one other.

At Barcelona, the sample continued amid a lot larger scrutiny from the Catalan press. There have been reviews of a very unhelpful entourage, of him being late for group conferences, of him enjoying video video games late at night time, of him neglecting his weight loss plan.

In a remark that tallies with Matthaus’ remarks contrasting his surroundings with that of Musiala and Wirtz, Dembele’s former chef – whom he fired – talked of the participant having “no structure around him” and this was seen as a consider his poor damage file.

Dembele has since acknowledged that it led to him “losing five years of his life” due to his failure to understand the significance of preparation. The expertise was nonetheless sufficient to maintain him within the present, simply not sufficient to make him the true star of it.

Ousmane Dembele of France reacts after being substituted in the first half during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 final against Argentina
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Ousmane Dembele trudges off after being substituted within the World Cup closing

Nothing illustrates that fairly like his position within the largest and greatest recreation of all of them, the 2022 World Cup closing in Qatar. Dembele gave away a penalty and was hauled off earlier than half-time. A profession being performed out within the highlight however by some means nonetheless passing him by.

There isn’t a doubt that Luis Enrique has helped. The PSG coach has not shied away from demanding extra from Dembele. “You have to go deeper and deeper to get the best version of Ousmane,” he has defined. “We have had to do and say difficult things.”

However allow us to watch out to not deny Dembele company right here. It’s the participant himself who has needed to make the changes. In any case, Luis Enrique was unable to spark the identical change in Kylian Mbappe. Dembele is the one who has taken his recreation to a different degree.

Ousmane Dembele in Champions League win with PSG

“If you want to be a great player, you have to work. Your talent is not enough. I did not know that before.” His belated realisation has made for one of the lovely turnarounds in soccer as a result of this kind of mid-career rise simply doesn’t occur.

Actors, musicians, presenters and politicians, they could be capable of come again into style, possibly even redeem themselves within the subsequent act, however soccer is a youngster’s recreation and there may be hardly ever the time for comebacks. Determine all of it out too late and it’s gone.

Effectively, leopards won’t change their spots however they’re completely advanced predators, ruthless hunters. With each goal-kick that Dembele chases down, he underlines the change in him. Becoming a member of Matthaus as a Ballon d’Or winner can be a becoming subsequent step.

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