Besides the transfer fee of Ousmane, Dembele injury history at Barcelona is the highest number injuries any players ever had in 5 years.
The 5 times UCL winning team must have been fed up of Ousmane’s injury and that has been one of their reason for wanting to sell him this season
Source: as.com
Since Barcelona signed Dembele in the summer of the 2016/17 season, Ousmane Dembele Injury has been the major headache for the club. The player has missed more than 100 games in 5 years at the club.
Barca signed then 20-year-old young talent for a whopping amount of breaking their bank £97m plus £38m in add ons, but it all went south. He was the second most expensive player in the world after Neymar. But, it has been like putting water in sands as Dembele Injury record is nearly going to hit quintuple hattricks.
Dembele Injury History at Barcelona and Dortmund
Dembele Injury Record at Barcelona
Dembele’s injury history at Barcelona is very interesting as he has more missed games due to injury than he has made appearances for Barcelona.
Source: reuters.com
As of January 27, 2022, Dembele has played 129 games for Barca, but he has missed 104 games due to injury. According to transfermarkt, The highest number of games Dembele has missed in a single injury is 20, which he missed from September 17, 2017, and January 1, 2018.
Similarly, he missed 19 games in 2020 due to Hamstring Injury.
At the Spanish club Barcelona, Dembele has missed 695 days due to injury. That means, he has missed 1 year 9 months in his 5 years span at Barcelona. The 2015-16 INFP Ligue 1 Player of the Year has missed 191 days at once, which is the highest number of days in a single injury. It was because of Hamstring’s injury which was from February 4, 2020, to August 13, 2020.
| SN | Season | Injury Type | From – To | Games Missed |
| 1 | 2017/18 | Hamstring | Sep 17 – Jan 1, 2017- 2018 | 20 |
| 2 | 2017/18 | Torn Muscle Bundle | Jan 15 – Feb 10, 2018 | 7 |
| 3 | 2018/19 | Ankle | Jan 21 – Feb 8, 2019 | 5 |
| 4 | 2018/19 | Torn Muscle Bundle | Mar 14 – Apr 9, 2019 | 4 |
| 5 | 2018/19 | Hamstring | May 5 – June 16, 2019 | 4 |
| 6 | 2019/20 | Hamstring | Aug 19 – Sep 22, 2019 | 5 |
| 7 | 2019/20 | Muscular | Sep 27, Sep 30, 2019 | 1 |
| 8 | 2019/20 | Torn Muscle Bundle | Nov 28 – Feb 2, 2019 – 2020 | 13 |
| 9 | 2019/20 | Hamstring | Feb 4 – Aug 13, 2020 | 19 |
| 10 | 2020/21 | Hamstring | Dec 6 – Dec 28, 2020 | 5 |
| 11 | 2020/21 | Unknown | April 21 – Apr 23, 2021 | 1 |
| 12 | 2021/22 | Knee | Jun 20 – Nov 1, 2021 | 14 |
| 13 | 2021/22 | Hamstring | Nov 4 – Nov 22, 2021 | 2 |
Dembele Injury Record at Dortmund
Though Dembele has a long record of getting injured at Barcelona, he did not miss many games due to injury at Dortmund.
Only time Dembele Injury at Dortmund was in January of 2017. At that time he was out for 10 days from January 9 to January 19, 2017. At that time, he suffered from Problems in the hip flexor but that was not too serious.
During that span, he did not miss any games for Dortmund.
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