'L'Équipe': Barça partly responsible for Dembélé's injuries

Ousmane Dembélé got injured just a few days after making his return from a different injury. This was enough to force him to have surgery and say goodbye to the rest of the season with his club, as as well as with France, ending his chances of participating in this summer's Euros.

The Frenchman has often been criticised for his lifestyle since his arrival in Catalonia, but 'L'Équipe' has revealed that this is far from being the player's fault.

The player's personal cook assured the publication that the player's lifestyle is much better than it was a few years ago. 

"At Ousmane's, there are no more prepared products, there is no more soda: only healthy and fresh. Ousmane is good at football and he thought that just with that, it would be enough. But he's growing up and he understands. Today he eats sea bream, sea bass, cockerel, lots of vegetables. It's hard to see all this work and bad luck with injuries, because he has never taken such good care of himself. He's a very homely boy, very calm, there's never any parties at home," says the cook, Anthony Aubdeaud.

A much more professional lifestyle, which would therefore not be the main cause of player injuries. The media goes straight to the point: one of the reasons for these repeated injuries is none other than Barcelona's training sessions.

The club has even admitted its share of responsibility. 'L'Équipe" explains that in Doha, the clinic that analyses the player's results realised that the training sessions were not adapted to the player, who does 90% of his runs in sprints during matches, sprints that would only represent 20% of the player's work in training.

Dembélé is reportedly not the only one to have this kind of problem, as the media added that Frenkie de Jong had called in a personal trainer to make up for the lack of physical work in the club's training sessions.