When Ousmane Dembele made his €148 million move from Borussia Dortmund to Barcelona in 2017, he was quickly earmarked as a future Ballon d’Or winner and the player to disrupt the Lionel Messi-Cristiano Ronaldo duopoly.
That prophecy did not come to pass, as a series of injuries meant that the France international could not live up to his billing at Camp Nou. After six seasons, in which Dembele turned out 185 times across all competitions, scoring 40 goals, he moved to Paris Saint-Germain in a £50m move.
