Since the beginning of 2025, Ousmane Dembélé has scored 23 goals with Paris Saint-Germain, all competitions combined. Exceptional statistics, all the more astonishing as they concern a player who was renowned for his clumsiness in the last gesture only a few months ago.
The current level of play of the Parisian number 10 even suggests that it could win the Ballon d'Or. The rest of his journey in the Champions League with the capital's club will be decisive to hope to achieve this. And it starts this Wednesday evening, with the reception of Aston Villa at the Parc des Princes, on the occasion of the first legs go to the prestigious competition.
Ousmane Dembélé would not make an obsession Ballon. “It's not something he's talking aboutassures a member of his entourage quoted by the newspaper
The team. Her priority, she is turned to the Champions League. He knows that the rest could result from it. But that does not represent a pressure or anything. He will approach these quarters as he usually prepares matches. »»
Ousmane Dembélé Ballon d'Or, the road is still long
Ibrahima Konaté, his teammate in the French team, imagines him all the same able to offer this ultimate individual reward.
“This talent, he always had it, Ousmane. What really makes the difference is that it is more decisive on the rest. What he is doing with his goals is exceptional. He has received a lot of criticism but today he is intractable before the goal. If he continues on this path, we can talk about him as a potential Ballon d'Or »says the central defender of Liverpool.
As a reminder, three criteria are retained by the organizers for obtaining the award awarded to the best footballer of the year. It is the individual performance, the charts and the fair play as well as the positive attitude of the player. One hundred journalists from a hundred different countries, representing the first hundred countries in the FIFA classification, participate in the vote.
