Article by Dragoș Petrescu – Published on Sunday, June 15, 2025, 18:14 / Updated Sunday, June 15, 2025 18:14
Ousmane Dembele (28 years old), the footballer considered by many experts as the main favorite to win the Gold Paris Saint-Germain In the newly completed season, he spoke about the six years spent at Barcelonastating that he has shown lack of professionalism.
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Ousmane Dembele signed with PSG in the summer of 2023, after six seasons full of criticisms, injuries and disappointments lived in the Barcelona T -shirt.
Once in Paris, however, the French career was reborn, and in the freshly completed season, this was the number one of the team that won everything that could be won.
Ousmane Dembele acknowledged his mistake: “I was not a real professional”
His solid benefits of the last year have aroused the curiosity of the sport-love lovers, many people wondering what is the decisive factor that caused this radical change in the player's yield.
The answer to offered even Dembele, in an interview with France Footballstating that he did not behave as a true professional during the period spent in Spain, and this came with the consequences we all know.
I don't know what to say … I just regret some decisions I made. I was superficial, and for that I paid for expensive.
I was even younger then. I arrived in Barcelona at the age of 20, I was practically a child and I didn't understand what was happening to me. I remember that after workouts, I was going home and playing NBA until late. Then I was watching TV. But it seemed absolutely normal to me.
Then, when I grew up and gave my interest more, the injuries followed, which pulled me back a lot.
Ever since I came to Paris, I am a real professional. Okay, and lately from Barcelona I had started to be much more serious, but then the world did not see this. Now I go to the training base even on the free days to recover and work with physiotherapists.
I also learned many things that helped me. Now I know my body much better and that is why I am less likely to get injured. I know when I feel good and I can force but also when I have to slow down to protect myself
– said Ousmane Dembele for France Football
As for the injuries he suffered when wearing the Catalan T-shirt, they represented a real ordeal for Dembele.
The three muscle ruptures, to which are added the problems from the thigh and knees, made the French to sit on the bar for a total of 799 days, thus missing no less than 141 matches for Barcelona and the national “Les Bleus”.
Ousmane Dembele, celebrated by PSG colleagues after the UEFA Champions League // Photo: Getty Images
Dembele, uncertain for the debut match at the club world
After the excellent season with PSG, the final-Four followed the UEFA Nations League for Dembele, where France only took the bronze.
However, the footballer has the chance to pick up a new trophy above his head, considering that his team participates in the World Club Champion, where he will debut this evening, from 10:00 pm, against Atletico Madrid.
However, the chances are that Dembele will miss the game, due to problems in the left foot, caused in the duel with Spain in the League of Nations.
