From Flop To Ballon d'Or Contender #shorts

Video highlights the remarkable journey of Ousmane Dembele

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00:00From 15,000 euros to a 105 million euros Ballon d'Or contender, this is one of the greatest

00:05comeback stories in football history. Back in 2010, Wren signed 13-year-old Ousmane Dembele

00:11for 15,000 euros. By 2015, he's already exploded onto the Ligue 1 stage. With 12 goals and 5 assists

00:17in Ligue 1, Dortmund pounced on him and spent 15 million euros. After just one season and a lot

00:22of inexperience, Barcelona needed to replace Neymar. One of the greatest footballers to ever

00:27play the game, Neymar made a huge money move to PSG and Barcelona needed a big name. As

00:32just a 20-year-old, Ousmane Dembele went to Barca for 105 million euros. At that point,

00:38everything changed. Dembele went from tearing up the Bundesliga to being known as one of

00:42the biggest flops in football ever. The story was starting to unravel in a horrendous way.

00:47Most crazily, when PSG signed him for 50 million euros, it was seen as a crazy shock in 2023.

00:53One couldn't believe that someone that was as finished, as washed as Ousmane Dembele was

00:57at Barcelona, that PSG would even think that spending 50 million was the right thing to

01:01do. Fast forward to 2025, and he's just won the Champions League as one of the most exciting

01:06wingers in world football. Many people now touting him for the Ballon d'Or. He finished

01:10the season with most take-ons and most big chances created in the tournament. And PSG, by the

01:14way, have just had a team with Messi, Neymar, Mbappe. A side that couldn't win the Champions

01:19League. Dembele's now outshone Mbappe's legacy at PSG. He's touted for the Ballon d'Or, and

01:24sometimes proof that it really is just wrong place, wrong time.

01:27wrong time.