From Flop To Ballon d'Or Contender

From 15,000 euros to a 105 million euros Ballon d'Or contender, this is one of the greatest comeback stories in football history

Back in 2010, Wren signed 13-year-old Ousmane Dembele for 15,000 euros. By 2015, he's already exploded onto the Ligue 1 stage

With 12 goals and 5 assists in Ligue 1, Dortmund pounced on him and spent 15 million euros

After just one season and a lot of inexperience, Barcelona needed to replace Neymar

One of the greatest footballers to ever play the game, Neymar made a huge money move to PSG and Barcelona needed a big name

As just a 20-year-old, Ousmane Dembele went to Barca for 105 million euros

At that point, everything changed. Dembele went from tearing up the Bundesliga to being known as one of the biggest flops in football ever

The story was starting to unravel in a horrendous way. Most crazily, when PSG signed him for 50 million euros, it was seen as a crazy shock in 2023

everyone couldn't believe that someone that was as finished as washed as Ousmane Dembele was at

Barcelona that PSG would even think that spending 50 million was the right thing to do. Fast forward

to 2025 and he's just won the Champions League as one of the most exciting wingers in world football

many people now touting him for the Ballon d'Or he finishes the season with most take-ons and most

big chances created in the tournament and PSG by the way have just had a team with Messi, Neymar

and Mbappe a side that couldn't win the Champions League. Dembele's now outshone Mbappe's legacy at

PSG is touted for the Ballon d'Or and sometimes proof that it really is just wrong place, wrong time