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Eighty-seven minutes are on the clock. A grimace appears on Ousmane Dembele's face as he heads towards the France bench holding his leg. He'd only been on the pitch 30 minutes before the all-too-familiar feeling re-entered his life once again.

That injury, that was picked up in France's 1-1 draw with Hungary in last year's Euros, would keep Dembele out for a total of 134 days. A knee problem that sidelined the Frenchman for the majority of the first half of the 2021/22 campaign.

Finally, he was back. Dembele was brought on in Barcelona's Champions League clash with Dynamo Kiev on November 2 for his first appearance of the season. The crucial thing for Dembele was to keep himself fit and available for the remainder of the campaign.

As November 4 rolls around, Barcelona release this statement: "The first team player Ousmane Dembele has a strain in the semimembranosus muscle of his left hamstring". At this point, as sad as it was, it didn't shock too many people.

Many people on social media jumped to the conclusion that Dembele's time at