“Mousa Dembele was a players’ player: a rare talent whose quality is best articulated by his team-mates. Kyle Walker, who played alongside Dembele at Tottenham Hotspur for five seasons before joining Manchester City in 2017, said he was ‘probably the best player I have ever seen play football’, and he has lined up with and against some of the greatest of his generation. One is those is City’s Kevin De Bruyne, who incidentally described his former Belgium team-mate as ‘the best player in the world’ at five-a-side. Former Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino ranked him in the ‘genius’ bracket of those he had worked with, alongside Diego Maradona and Ronaldinho. …”
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W – Mousa Dembélé (Belgian footballer)