After three seasons spent at Paris Saint-Germain, Mevlut Erding evolved under the colors of Stade Rennais between 2012 and 2013. At the time, then fifteen years old, Ousmane Dembélé was at the Breton club training center.
The former Turkish striker remembers an anecdote about the one who became world champion five years later.
“I often saw him back with other friends, so I put them by car leaving training. One day, I turn around and I ask him: 'You play what post you?'. He said to me: 'I play attacker'. I ask him for his name, he said to me: it is Ousmane Dembélé '. And I answer him: 'You are a little frail, you have to do a little muscular'. He laughed and we left on that. Today, we talk about it when we meet ”, entrusted the native of Saint-Claude on the airwaves of France Bleuin the emission “100% PSG, Le Mag”.
Ousmane Dembélé, the teenager now perched on the roof of PSG
Thirteen years after their meeting,
Ousmane Dembélé has become a formidable striker. “I have the impression that he understood everything, Judge Erding. It became the player we wanted to see before. He knows how to eliminate, shoot two feet, make assists. He can do everything. He is the most complete player of PSG currently. What is doing is extraordinary. I did not expect to see what I see today. I do not know if he works in front of the goal, but we feel only at the finish, he is a player who wants. »»
Since the start of the current exercise, the former FC Barcelona player has scored 23 goals in 29 games, all competitions combined. Statistically, PSG number 10 has been making the best season since the start of his career.
