The Story of The Midfielder Who NEVER Lost The Ball!
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- The Premier League has been called home by many of the game’s greats but an area where the division has been especially spoiled is the midfield. Across its 30-year history, we’ve seen world-class 6s, 8s, and 10s from all across the globe, who have anchored, patrolled, and generally guided the midfields of some record-breaking sides whose legacies live on. Due to longevity and the silverware, the stars of Manchester United, City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool are bound be held in higher regard, but in the archives of the smaller clubs, there are some diamonds who, in terms of ability, could stand toe-to-toe with those we remember best.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:10 - Childhood, Germinal Beerschot & Willem II
0:51 - Changing His Role at AZ
2:02 - A Standout Year
3:21 - Fulham
5:37 - Moving to North London
6:50 - The Pochettino Era
10:19 - His Best Season & 2018 World Cup
12:04 - Leaving a Legend
12:57 - "Who's The Best Player You've Played With?"
13:34 - An Underrated Genius
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As a devoted watcher of premier league football for decades I think he is one of the most underrated players. An absolute machine of a midfielder.
criminally underrated
True, as a city fan i always adore him. And wonder why no big club go for him (no offence for spurs)
Name a more underrated player honestly
I genuinely believe he was the best player in the prem in his last 2 seasons at spurs
@@thecitizens4573he was hugely injury prone
Oh my days I can’t even begin to explain how happy I am that he’s getting his flowers
Where has this trend of getting his flowers come from. Wish people can be more original and come up with their own sayings. Fun to hear different things
@@Creees It's an Americanism. Like 'cap/no cap', 'cooking', 'nice', 'clutch' etc. It's easier for people to just copy others these days, than to think for themselves.
@@mobya80also easier for us to understand when everyone uses the same terminology than if everyone said different things
@@mobya80 is that really an American idiom? I was confused why he was asking "where it came from" as it is neither new nor is it a trend, but an old, common saying to us Americans. It is nothing like "cap" or "cooking" as this is something that's been said at least all my life.
Also language is inherently about copying others lol you can't use language that other people don't use because language derives its meaning from collective usage.
@@mobya80it defo isn’t an Americanism imo it’s just risen to popularity much more cause of social media and other platforms the saying has been around for years and has British origins
As a Spurs fan I love Dembele. He was one of a kind.
As an Arsenal fan , I thought he was quality and wished we had signed him when he was at Fulham
My fav player when he was at Spurs, and never understood why it took so long for Spurs to sign him.
Absolute class!
One of a kind is right. What a player. If he could finish consistently, he'd have won the ballon dor multiple times.
You can tell how important he was by how all the new signings are measured up against him.
Arsenal fan here. I absolutely loved watching him. His partnership with Wanyama was unreal
His 2016/17 season is hands down the best central midfield season performance I've ever seen! Phenomenal player.
Yeah yes he was 8 out of 10 in every match he played...Unreal
Lots of insane performances that season - Danny Rose seemed unbeatable for half that season as well until he got injured - refuse to believe there has been a better pair of Premier League fullbacks than Rose + Walker during that season, and what's craziest was that Rose was a decent amount better than Walker at that time as well. You just knew every game the opposing winger would be outplayed and he'd bomb up and down the wing the entire game. Think people underestimate how wearing Poch's style is on players and how much Spurs truly lost out on it as well - Spurs best XI was clearly better than Chelsea's but Chelsea had fewer injuries/no Europe so ended up winning the league. That entire XI was filled with good to great players - real shame there were always financial cheats to ruin it (*cough* Chelsea *cough*).
Better than 2013/14 Yaya's season??
@@saranshsharma4005 might as well just go for Leicester Kante at that point
@@saranshsharma4005nope
Players like Dembele are why I love football aside from trophies, goals and assist. Football is more art than sport to me anyways.
The type of player you'd pay over the odds for to watch.
the only player I've witnessed to go shoulder against shoulder with Yaya Toure and actually managing to shrug him off the ball, he was an absolute monster with impeccable technique, thank you Mousa for everything you've done for Spurs, it was a joy to watch you play the wonderful game.
I thought i was the only one on earth who saw this… ur a legend mate 🎉
@@adamothman693 lmao same here, cheers mate 😁
Yaya Toure, Moussa Dembele and Nemaja Matic.
At that same time, i experienced my beloved Liverpool put fucking Joe Allen on Yaya...
@@rasmusjrgensen1566Lmao hahahaha
Honestly this guy was key in Pochettino's Tottenham. Although he left Spurs when he was injury-prone I think Spurs should have kept him a bit longer as he was really key. I like how he knew how to shield the ball, break-up opponents play and at times literally glide past oppoents.
Loosing him was the reason why spurs started to suck after the 2019 season…even reaching the ucl finals was sort of a last ditch hurray by the team and im sure if he was there in the match spurs would have tested liverpool more in that final
@@drdp420 for sure, that final was really among the most boring UCL final I can think of.
That was because after the early goal, Liverpool just parked the bus. Poor Final ruined by the ref with a poor penalty decision, imo.
Sissoko was literally the replacement for Dembele too so it's always felt warranted to say that game would have played out significantly differently
@@themangeary it was also because the final was played nearly a month after the end of the league season and none of them were totally match fit. People seem to forget that bit but neither team was fully firing (even though the early pen killed the game off also)
Belgian fan here, I'd like to add to your brilliant video by mentioning his career with the national team. He was part of the squad that reached 4th place at the 2008 Olympics, playing up front with Mirallas next to him, along with players like Vertonghen, Fellaini, Kompany, Vermaelen, who ended up being the spine of the "golden generation". In spite of that, he was never an established starter with the senior squad, having to compete with the likes of Fellaini, Witsel, De Bruyne, Tielemans and Nainggolan through the years, in systems that didn't really fit his style of play. He did get 82 caps, which is not insignificant, but his impact was never what we expected it to be. But still, just like you mentioned, if you ask all the players of the golden generation who was the best or most technically gifted out of all of them, most would say Dembele. In a team led by Hazard and De Bruyne, that's not bad...
Think you're confused. He was a starter nearly all the way through his whole Belgian career.
@@jimmyf1446He did play a lot. 82 caps is only 5 fewer than Fellaini. But he was never a certified starter. He was very often subbed in to keep possession and hold a result. He was tremendous at that. But if you look at the big tournaments, he didn't start many games. Wilmots liked having Witsel and Fellaini in his team and brought Nainggolan later on, but Dembele managed to get in there once in a while. With Martinez, who only had two men in midfield, he had even fewer possibilities with De Bruyne being lower on the pitch. Don't get me wrong, I thought he was fab, and he did play for the national team all the way through his career, but not in a pivotal role is what I'm saying.
@@soft_core_punk As a fellow Belgian I can confirm this
@@soft_core_punk kan jij nederlands ik ben van Belgie
LOL, belgian fan ? what the f is that ? better version of chinese fan ?
Mousa is a legend at spurs. Every fan will have him at number 6 in the best ever team. A master at winning the ball and starting attacks. He did the job of 2 players and it took 2 or 3 to mark him
👏🏼
Cannot overstate just how unbelievably good this guy was. Proper Rolls Royce.
Never improved his weaknesses and awful stats, even for his position
@koch1467 yeah his stats were weirdly poor, but he did the intangibles so, so well. Literally every one of his former teammates used to say he was the best player in the squad!
@@DdotRay86 Yes his dribbling was incredible, the way he glides past players. And his strenght as well, although he doesnt even look that strong.
I've always believed that with the right manager like Pep overseeing his career from the very beginning, recognizing his potential and positioning him as a CM or DM, he would have easily been part of the GOAT discussions. What a magical player, there's no comparison.
tbh he can play every position except off field.
Except for he fact he could have even been a no 10...!
1 of those the streets will never forget players. What a joy to watch him at Spurs
Him and Lamela
Moussa was criminally underrated, Dembele was a key player for Spurs.
True very underrated
We have been missing him ever since he left. The fluid ball control he had was crazy, able to skip past players and put a great defensive shift as well. Bissmousa + Maddison we have going on now, used to be Dembele's role to an extent, getting the ball back and able to dribble out of sticky situations with the ball forward.
bissouma kinda reminds me of him this season
good shout - he was like a couple of players in one - like he could do the job of two people in one player
Ndombele is a like for like in many ways except mentality unfortunately.
One of the greatest technicians the premiership has ever seen
He was so unique. You just couldn’t get the all off him and he was very physical and well built but also had ballerina twinkle toes skills as well. Loved watching him at Tottenham.
I am an Arsenal fan and he was sensational, reminded me of vieira. I always prayed he was injured when he played us, I never even felt that way when Modric played for spurs.
He was a beast again everytime we played spurs
praying for injury, most empathetic arsenal supporter
@@foreverslightedthis is the arsenal fan base summed up in a comment 😂 classless shameless scum
@@foreverslightedhe don’t represent all of us just the dumb few, like that topspur supporter who kicked ramsdale don’t represent all of you spuds
@@foreverslighted Only when he played us. Just a one weeker. Something insignificant.
15m what a steal. This man went underneath the radar in England when I started watching it. Every time we played against him simply masterclass. Didn’t know a lot about him until last year. Truly amazing player.
As an Arsenal fan, this man had my utmost respect. Absolute baller.
My fave player ever. I was privileged enough to watch him for Spurs week in week out - the guy was colossal with the ball. The most press resistant player ive seen for us and just loved him so much.
I’m so happy you did a piece on Dembele. I’ve always considered him as one of the best and underrated midfielders in the world. I’ve always admired how it seemed like he skated with the ball at his feet. I nearly forgot how much of a field genius he was. Thank you thank you.
Cheers bro, I'm crying. Great video. What a player.
He was the most interesting player to watch in a team that had gareth bale in it. His dribbling and movement was so smooth and yet defenders would bounce off him when they tackled. He’ll always be a legend
I loved Dembele at Spurs. One of the absolute best players I have ever seen,. I was in Turin when we were down and out after ten minutes, only for Moussa to run the show and show the wordls how exceptional he was.
I’m a Man Utd fan and I was desperate for us to sign him. He was and still is one of my favourite players to watch ever. So strong yet so skilful. An unbelievably gifted player.
He took us apart at Old Trafford playing for Fulham before he even got to Spurs. We should have made a move then.
@@bobm2368 yes, when he was at Fulham was when I wanted us to get him. Always stood out when we played them. Brilliant player.
@@codamh4862 Think we bought Smalling based on the same game. 🙄..... Sounds like something we'd do.
@@bobm2368 yeah that rings a bell actually 🤦🏻😅
Wym so "strong yet so skillful" ur making it sound like most strong players aren't skillful and vice versa😭😭
my favourite baller. unique talent who Spurs have never been able to replace
Incredible player with a unique ability, brilliantly presented
I'm a Arsenal fan but even i knew if spurs had dembele in their starting line up we was in for a long day 😅😅 but i will say what a player he was 🔥🔥
One of the most underrated midfielders of my generation. The guy was immense
As a Spurs fan, I have only praise for Dembele. One of my absolute favourites and, I've always believed a few more goal involvements would have put him more in the spot light for top clubs and top awards
yeah. he was such a dedicated box to box midfielder, he didn't get the chances bc he could often be found deep lying. really got us out of more trouble than he gets credit for. I remember him skipping past defenders and midfielders alike 3 or 4 each dribble sometimes and delivering a beautifully weighted ball.
@thoyo that game against Arsenal at Wembley, when he was just toying with their so called golden boy Wilshire....sublime
@@matthewnicholas6365 😂😎
Although I don’t like Tottenham (arsenal fan) I always loved watching dembele he was a class player and I’d always be nervous when he had the ball
I’m an Arsenal fan and Dembele is as my biggest football inspiration growing up. He was simply incredible to watch, you can see a lot of similarities in Bellinghams style. Never understood why nobody took notice of him at an Elite level
At one point at spurs he didn't want to leave could've easily went to chelsea or manchester city or bayern
his flair is much much more than Bellingham.
@AMIRULASYRAF-gm4vo true but they're very similar
Thank you for the documentary.
He was a joy to watch. He had some crazy dribbling stats, at one point he had more dribble per 90 than some proper wingers... the street won't forget him.
One of my favorites
Happy for all his praise 👏🏻
Manutd fan here yes moussa was pure class!
Thank you for recognizing this unique talent with such a fantastic personality. Moussa was the purest artistry of football you can ever watch.
Great video, he was unstoppable for a few seasons, he was magnificent. Honoured that he blessed us with his majesty.
Always loved Dembele. Such a criminally underrated player. I used to watch spurs just to watch him play, unreal.
Newcastle fan here - Dembele's peak was not a great time for my club - but watching him was always a pleasure, he was honestly a midfielder like very few others - a really very well balanced mix of fine technique, soft feet, strength and athleticism. He could break up play, break the lines and keep the ball. He won MANY midfield battles against players with bigger reputations. It's a great video about a great player TheRetroRoute - though I am not having the analogy about the vacuum cleaner/hoover near the end..... no domestic cleaning product had distribution like Dembele lol.
Great video! We miss him every day in our midfield. Best player I've ever seen play live by a mile
Spurs fan checking in, my favorite mid-fielder of the last 10 years. Amazing, no one could take the ball from him, so smooth, so much strength and determination.
An absolute gem of a player. Pure joy to watch.
Him running with the ball, using body feints, dummies and the technique of his feet to drop opponents is still jaw dropping to see.
Spurs fan..the best player spurs had,didn't score many goals for spurs but was key to any match.never lost the ball even with 5 players trying to get the ball he would keep the ball and make a pass forward.ridiculous skill,very underrated.was gutted to see him leave spurs
EA FC R1 dribbling in reality. But seriously as a Spurs supporter for many years he is one of my favourite players to have played for us. His power carrying the ball accompanied with his strength to hold opponents off meant that few could take the ball from him. I’m only gutted that he didn’t win the success that he deserved to have won whilst playing for us. He deserved to be recognised so much more than he was by neutrals. Incredible player and one that was oft singled out by team mates as being the best footballer at the club or someone they would choose for the perfect five a side team and yes he would have been the perfect player for that. Oooohhh moouuusaaa dembele
I don’t like or comment on many videos, but for a spurs club legend ❤ he deserves more people to recognise how special he was. Thank you for a wonderful video showcasing his career
I am an Arsenal fan. I remember him playing against Arsenal whilst he was at Tottenham and every time he got hold of the ball, my heart would sink.
My friends use to say I played similar to Dembele. At the time I felt offended cause he was a spurs player lol, but now it is honestly one of the best compliments I have received in my life.
One of the best players I've ever had the privilege to watch live. ⭐
Absoytop class player, loved watching him glide gracefully with the ball through midfield, opponents unable to get near him. Thank you Moussa 💙
phenomenal video🔥🔥
Man I'm so happy to see this video dedicated to this man. He really deserves it
Wonderful video and great background music.
"Unloading the ball at the perfect time, like a vacuum cleaner"
Such an incredible player and he was so important to what Spurs did with Pochettino. Perhaps we could have gone on to win the CL or Premier League, or at least a cup if he had less injuries. So pleased you made this video as it is very well deserved.
Always a pleasure to watch. Silk mixed with steel. Style and guile. Incredible player!!
Quality doc. Befitting tribute of Dembélé’s talent.
fantastic vid, you got my sub. he is one of my fav players of all time and iv been watching footy since the early 80s. he was just so unique i simply cant compare him to anyone else, the closes i can think of is Brazilian Ronaldo if he was a mid, physique and ball carry wise, super strong and calm on the balls. just a joy to watch.
This channel is really one the best of the best
He was one of my favorite player and I wished Liverpool had signed him. Absolute beast of a player! He could have walked into any top club first eleven and be the best player on the team.
Love this! Thank you
Wow thank you for this video, my all time favorite player !!!! ❤
What an absolute machine of a player!
"relaxes everyone when in possession", that line sums up this brilliant Technician. Speaking as an Arsenal fan he's the only spurs player alone with Van der Vaart i enjoyed watching.
I'm a spurs fan and watched them week in week out. I can tell you for a fact, once he left our team that's when the problem started. Anyone understands that to be a top team you need a player like this. Hopefully bissouma can eventually fill his boots.
Thanks a lot for this vid. I'm 54 and Mousa is my all-time favourite Spurs player 💙💙💙
Football is my passion since I'm a kid and Mousa will ALWAYS be the one. He was dancing on the pitch and he was such a joy to watch.
Ohhhh Mousa Dembélé 💙💙💙
One of the best dribblers I have seen in my life. Considering he was a mildfielder, that made him unique. So special and spectacular player.
I absolutely fell in love with his style of play just watching him play. It was really sad that he didn't have a long career at the top flight.
He was so good it’s was unbelievable how unnoticed he went. One of the best midfielders in the prem ever just never scored love this geeza
Dembele is my favourite spurs player !! What a player !!! Simply amazing !! Dominant in midfield, press resistant, dribbles like a Brazilian mixed with the heart of a champion. Beast !!
Great video! I loved him as a spurs fan. It went down hill for us after he left, I was Absolutely gutted.
Wow happy to see this atlast ...He was one of my favorites
I constantly go checking for his highlights. His game had everything, an absolute baller. Injuries capped his high, but the streets will always remember!
Rn, Bellingham reminds me of him, but I don't think he has reached his level of using his body to block people out.
I loved seeing this guy and Younes Belhanda ball out during that time. Can’t forget Taarabt too.
One of the most underrated player in that spurs peak era. And you know better what you have lost after years of failure of finding his replacement. The perfect match with technical and physical attributes as well as his professionalism and passion.
Hope there will be a better farewell for him. Such a pity he is not in the European championship final.
Absolute magic. Sublime. No body did it better.
Look everyone TheRetroRoute is back!!!
A really good Doc, shed a tear on his last injury man
One of a kind player. Pace, power, grace, balance, one of the all time great dribblers.
One of my favourite player of all time. Moussa was a beast; a treat to watch
I had the pleasure of seeing just one high level professional game in person in my life so far. It was Tottenham vs PSG in the pre season tour of the US back in 2017. One could just about imagine the star studded lineups both these teams had at the time. One guy really stood out for me amongst all the others on that day though. Dembele! He was just moving through midfield so effortlessly and some of the spins he pulled off to avoid tackles and maintain possession were simply spectacular. I recall Eriksen and Alderweireld scored some beauties that night, but for overall play I will always remember Dembele the most.
One of the best in his position. Amazing at AZ where I noticed him since Ive followed the Eredivisie for multiple decades. One of the few guys who made the move from there to the Prem and managed to adjust. Like Suarez, Eriksen, Vertonghen. Always found it weird how un-hyped he was compared to some of the others.
Dembele was on another level and only injuries stopped him from collecting more trophies that his career deserved. We sorely missed him due to injury in our Champions League final. Mousa is in the top 5 players of all time for me to have put on the spurs shirt. Legend.
i'm so glad you're giving him his flowers man, the streets certainly won't forget
the goosebumps i get watching him outclass that midfield, will we ever get a baller like him
This guy got me to book tickets to Fulham and been a fan ever since, but still a bigger Dembélé fan. If you like his style, check out Charles De Ketelaere. He's got almost the same elegant flow of playing and also with him people are doubting what his best position is.
I still cn remember when i watched them against liverpool.. with Wanyama,Dembele n Sissoko... they were top notch.
show this guy to the kids. this is how you develop as a player
This boy was special... I see some elements of his game in young Kobbie Mainoo at United...
How did I forget this man 😢😢❤❤❤
dembele was a real hero for us at az and also for the spurs he was so good to watch even as a kid in the stadium i was amazed
Im an arsenal fan but I always rated dembele, easily one of the most underated players in premier league history
One of the most underrated player till yet ... Love u moussa
he was always my fav Spurs player ...so safe in DM it was a dream! thnx Moussa
Great video
One of my favourite premier league players of all time. An absolute treat to watch play.
*Underrated RUclipsr*
I loved Moussaaaa! Couldn't get enough when he was playing his last day's at Spurs. Lovely team that with Harry,Sonny and Chris Eriksen. Amazed we never won anything with them Lloris Vertonghen,Walker,Rose and Toby Alderweireldt. Coys
This guy deserved this video. Hopefully more people see now what a worldclass player he was. Still say with him we would have won the cl titel... unfortunately we had another guy with his talent and nearly the same name. Ndombele. But his mindset yeah....
Still and will ever miss you Moussa. It was a pleasure for me to watch you live in the stadium when I had the chance to fly from Switzerland to England (11 times exactly). Also it was always great how you bossed and had your greatest games against gooners 😁
Great vid. He was a CDM Maradona in terms of balance and body movement. One of those insane talents that is 100% natural and Spurs were lucky to have him.
This man had a special aura on the filed. He was the centre of the field. Amazing!