Jamie O’Hara has named former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Mousa Dembele as someone who could possibly be one of the Premier League’s greatest ‘streets won’t forget footballers’.
The footballer-turned-pundit stated that Mousa Dembele was ‘built like a sofa’, but he ‘ran like a Cheetah’, as he posted on Twitter.
Back in 2019, after a spate of injuries affected his chances to perform on the Premier League stage, Tottenham sold their ball-carrying expert to Chinese side Guangzhou R&F for £11 million (The Guardian).
At the time, he was only 31 and it was a crying shame that a player of his ilk, at that age, had to drop so far down a league in order for his body to be able to cope.
But when his engine was running, whether for Fulham or Spurs, he was very, very hard to stop and a player admired by many –
Michel Vorm and Moussa Sissoko also recently lauded him.This is what O’Hara had to say about Dembele, who amazingly enough, managed to miss playing with him at Spurs and Fulham. He left one year before the Belgian moved to White Hart Lane, whilst the talkSPORT pundit played for Fulham three years after Dembele’s exit.
“Played against Mousa Dembele in midfield,” said O’Hara. “Built like a sofa and ran like a cheetah. His skills were next level, so underrated.”
One of Tottenham’s best
In terms of statistics, Dembele isn’t going to stand out like Dele Alli or Christian Eriksen did.
Not did he have an explosive season like Gareth Bale, but he still deserves to be amongst those as one of Tottenham’s best during the Premier League era.
As solid as an ox, brave as a lion and gliding through like a Cheetah. He was an immense footballer and someone who was perhaps the greatest ‘streets won’t forget footballers’ of all time.
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