Dembélé is discharged: end to a 260-day ordeal

Quique Setién already has Ousmane Dembélé at his disposal, a player for whom he feels a special predilection, as he has always manifested when they have asked him about the forward. This Thursday, after the afternoon session, the young French attacker received a medical discharge, in a brief official statement sent by the club.

A moral blow, without a doubt, for the staff, on the eve of the most important game of the season and especially for Ousmane, who has had to wait 260 days to live this day. Since he was injured on November 27 last year against Borussia Dortmund In the penultimate match of the Champions League, Dembélé has had to endure a real nightmare, accumulating injuries, relapses and even going through the operating room included.

But the forward has put an end to his particular hell, and he has also done it through the front door and in a perfect setting: in a quarterfinal of the Champions League. Almost nine months after playing his last game and six months after traveling to Finland to undergo surgery on the hamstring tendon in his right leg, the Frenchman is back.

Obviously he will not be able to appear in the starting eleven -He has only completed eight training sessions with the first team-, but, as Setién himself revealed at a press conference, It is not ruled out that he plays a few minutes as a prize to the enormous effort and sacrifice he has made to get here.

The best news of all is that Dembélé could continue to increase his workload and participation in the following matches because that would mean not only that he has already said goodbye to his injury, rather, Barcelona continues to overcome qualifying rounds with the challenge of reaching the final and winning it.