It appears as though the plan for the Barcelona board is to count to ten before any decision is made and thanks to that they didn't sack Ernesto Valverde after the defeat by Roma last season and Ousmane Dembele will have another chance.
That the Frenchman has exhausted the patience of the Barcelona hierarchy is no mystery. His lateness and general lack of discipline has not been taken well especially considering his cost having been brought in to try and smooth over the loss of Neymar.
The past week has been particularly troublesome with Dembele missing Thursday's training session and not giving sufficient warning that he would do so. It saw him left out of Sunday's game with Real Sociedad and he also turned up late for that game.
Along with this have come the public reprimands, first from Valverde who left him out of the squad and then after the Betis game said that he needs help but he has not given up on him.
"I have not lost patience with him, he has a special talent and we have to help him," he said.
Then Pique, a dressing room heavyweight, added: "We have to help him so that he realises that football is a 24 hour day job."
France coach Didier Deschamps also joined in the debate.
"He is used to turning up late, I already know about him and his excuses," he explained.
whykallar
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Dembele is not a player to be bench, even he move to Real Madrid, Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool, PSG and the list goes on, he will always be starring XI, Valverde just want to spoil this kid future, but it won't happen and we must sack him soon, Barca pay too much money for him, because he's a quality player who can deliver, and should be on first team, he's the third best player on Barca team, after Messi first, Suarez second, comes Dembele third, he knows his own importance, this is why he's behaving like that, you can look at a great player that not belong on the bench and be keeping him on bench. If our coach continues this behavior , we should sack him, he's not even giving good results.
Ice_ScorpionMSN
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Being a great talent will not always be suitable for a starting XI. Well discipline and effort comes first.