Is Mousa Dembele Good Enough To Play For Tottenham?

For the longest time, I have been waiting for Mousa Dembele to show us what he is really about. When he was at Fulham, he was one of their best players, second to ex Spurs player Clint Dempsey, and that’s why we bought the pair. Ever since then, Dembele hasn’t looked like a player at the level we want to be. Under Andre Villas Boas, Dembele played some games and you could see that he was making his way to be a starter consistently, but since then he has fallen out of favour with both Tim Sherwood and Mauricio Pochettino. So that begs the question, is Dembele good enough to play for Tottenham?

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In the week, when away with international duty with Belgium, Tottenham told the Belgian FA that they don’t want Dembele answering any questions, or even being asked questions about his future. Now, to me that seemed a bit weird, with the club telling the country what can and can’t be asked? But that is exactly what Tottenham did, and that makes me think that Dembele is on his way out of White Hart Lane.

For months, Dembele has been in and out of the starting eleven, with Pochettino still not able to figure out what his best position is or where he wants to play. This isn’t the manager’s fault, because he isn’t the only one who didn’t know what to do with him. Tactics Tim Sherwood tried so hard to use al his wisdom to find a place where Dembele could flourish, and even he couldn’t do it. It seems that Dembele just cant hold down a place, or even produce performances where they put the question into the manager’s mind.

I am a Dembele fan. I have said on numerous occasions, that a genius is waiting to come out of Mousa Dembele; it was just a case of when and how long it would take. But now, my hopes of that genius playing the way he did when he was at Fulham are fading away. It looks like Dembele was suffering from the case of “big fish, small pond” at Fulham. But at Spurs, he is a “small fish in a huge pond”, and it’s a shame that we can unlock the talent of the Belgian midfielder, but never say never with football, anything can happen.