In 2017, Barcelona panicked. After Neymar’s shocking €222M move to PSG, they scrambled for a replacement — and placed their future in the hands of a raw 20-year-old winger: Ousmane Dembélé.
What followed was one of the biggest transfer disasters in football history.
Dembélé arrived for a staggering €135M, making him the most expensive player in Barcelona’s history. But instead of a Neymar replacement, the club got six seasons of injury setbacks, inconsistency, and financial bleeding. Over 100 matches missed, €245M spent in total — and only 40 goals to show for it.
Even worse? As soon as he left, Dembélé exploded at PSG, staying injury-free and becoming Ligue 1 Player of the Year, leading the French giants to their first Champions League title, and putting up Messi-esque numbers — 33 goals, 15 assists in one season.
This is the unbelievable rise, fall, and rebirth of Ousmane Dembélé — and the story of how Barcelona got absolutely scammed.
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Many people are saying Dembele is a Ballon d’Or front runner right now, do you agree?
I legit had to check if I slowed down the playback speed. Sittin sideways, boys in a daze.
Excellent video, dude please put back the old background sound
Crazy not mentioning barcola
He won the UCL before Mbappe
Bro really hates barca with that thumbnail😭
Barca made noise in laliga this year, but haven’t gotten better with new transfers while their rivals of Madrid and Atletico are making moves and other European clubs are doing the same.
He's better than neymar
Barca have no one to blame but themselves for wanting him to be the best right away instead of catering to what he needed to actually achieve that
He is great but Barca the one overpaid him wasn't his fault . On that time also Barca putting La Masia behind, their success recipe . Thanks god both are doing good today
Barcelona scammed themselves with Dembélé Coutinho and Griezmann
been waiting on this vid for too long
This caption is very vindictive. I would sue for libel if I were Dembele. Do you realise that Dembele was a kid back then, he basically went through the same phase that Ansu Fati experienced and came out on top but look how you spun it.. like he meant to get injured back then. Terrible bro
As a Barça fan, as much as it hurts, I’m really happy for Ousmane
Eat sleep bre rad gr
his last season in barca was great he just wanted to play at home it’s not barca’s fault
If u think this is bad. Just remember. Both couthino and dembele lifted the CL before barca did
Bartemeu really killed Barca. His financial transactions were terrible
Not to throw more than a little shade, but having X amount of GC in La Liga 100% accounts for more than having Y in Ligue 1. La Liga IS a better and harder liga to play at compared to french.
He will complete football
Even though he flopped at Barca he’s shined at PSG playing more mature than before and having a manager that brings out the best in him. Barca were also at the decline during his time there tho despite Messi carrying the team on his back.
Proves that coaching and tactics matter greatly
They could’ve signed Messi they were burning money and still do
Barcelona never wanted him so they didn’t treat him properly.
He has had about 5 good performances on the big stage in his whole career.
Farmers league.
please make a video on greenwood redemption arc
This was epic Redemption of Dembele.
I'm glad to see Dembele rise again on the pitch 🙌🏽 the man deserves it from the pressure Barcá put on him..at that price I can see why but to call him a scam? It's disappointing but also insulting..the man does everything for his club he plays for & unfortunately at Barcelona, injuries plagued him, not the first time a club had to deal with that 🤷🏽♂️ just good to see a comeback story of someone truly struggling to becoming that world class player we are all hoping for!
Can it be the medical staff at Barca aren’t that good alot of players go to Barca and get injured then don’t recover until they leave the club
Dembele deserves balondor this a beautiful story
Barcelona didn’t use him right and that fatigued dembele and made him feel not welcomer
And he just destroyed them in the semis 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 should’ve kept him
Do a new one for cr7 please ❤
This is an incredibly disrespectful video to Dembouz and 99% of it is peddling lies and negative propaganda from the Barça media without context. He arrived at Barça when he was still a kid and was abused from the very beginning. Barça financial troubles have nothing to do with the players, it's all down to Barça themselves. When Dembouz played for Barça he wasn't close to being bad, infact he was one of their most threatening attackers almost everytime. Xavi's entire gameplan was based on Dembouz's game. I'm happy he left the toxic environment of Barça and is free from the club's fanbase constantly bashing him and making him feel like a laughing stock.
I don’t care what anybody says just because you are not a Barcelona fan yall wouldn’t understand the betrayal it’s like when you get marry your girl stop dressing and looking good but as soon as yall over she looks better , also how you going to be happy to eliminate your formal club when they give you so much opportunities to redeem yourself and then leave Xavi Hernández was counting on him 🥱if you sat there and tell us Barcelona fans they were crybabies and then he didn’t scam. Nobody is crazy.
Neymar is a generational talent that very few can reach, (Love Vinni, but) it took Cr7, Messi and in form Luis Suarez to prevent him from being number 1 in the world, to replace him is near impossible, Barca should've focused in their academy or wait until summer.
I love the foreshadowing for the potential of a Desire Doue video at the end hahaa
So he saved football? 😂
If you leave barca your career will become better 😂
He actually wasn't that bad at Barcelona
He didn’t scam them, they just played him incorrectly and didn’t hold him accountable for showing up late or not at all.