Few footballers of the FC Barcelona have so much importance in the diagram of Xavi Hernández like Ousmane Dembélé. From his arrival to the bench, the egarense has bet by the Frenchman and the extreme has answered him with good performances that carried him to be, by far, the best player of the team in 2022. Further of the physical problems, the míster of Terrassa has clear how improve the talent of the '7'.
In an interview with Jorge Valdano in his program 'Universe Valdano', the Barcelona trainer elogió to the forward of 26 years and desveló appearances on his personality that, up to now, had not gone out to the light. "We have improved him his characteristics of game, he is happy and is a person that the people knows very little. It is intelligent, likes him the football, sees more football that anybody and is slope of all the world-wide football. The people does not know it, of what says or writes to the reality there is a world", commented Xavi.
The character of Dembélé, his main fortress
"Of Dembélé would stand out you that it is a person that all the field is whistling it and goes out to play half hour and changes it by applauses, is to have a personality that there is very few. Another had said 'míster' do not play more, look for me an exit and, instead, Dembélé said me want to play, want to triumph in the Barça and do not go me to go to any side", remembered the egarense.
To beginnings of 2022, the directive even contemplated to separate to the French of the team in front of his refusal to negotiate. Finally, the '7' renewed the summer gone through two seasons and, in brief, would have to sign a new agreement that ensure his future in the club, further of the interest of some teams (Chelsea, PSG). This yes, the physical appearance follows generating doubts on the Frenchman, but Xavi is convinced of how recover his best version.
Xavi does not have doubts on the future of Dembélé
For the egarense, Ousmane has been the main manager to be able to change his situation in the club. "His challenge was to triumph in the Barça and is achieving it. It has cost him because it is a footballer that lesionaba a lot, that did not have the necessary confidence to triumph and I see him an enormous potential. And you can ask to the sides of the Spanish football or European that, when they see to Dembélé, see to a person with a gun", added.
On his style of game, Xavi desveló the key for lidiar with his irregularity. "Ousmane Can be a 10 or can be a 2 and what it is necessary to try is that it approach more times to the 10. Has a position in the field where is 10 or 0 because it has to driblar, has to it to him play and insist him that it does not happen at all if it loses the balloon, but lose it in the place where have to lose it. Where can not lose the balloon is in midfield", explained the Barcelona trainer to Valdano.
'Dembouz' Closed the season with 8 goals and 9 assistances in 35 parties (2.169 minutes). An injury in the previous rectum of the left thigh did him lose three months, from finals of January until finals of April. In the last two days of League added a pair of assistances, being headline in two of the last four parties of the tournament. The '7' expects to arrive to tope to turns it of pre-season in United States to recover the titularity that, until his injury, had been indisputable.