{"id":578211,"date":"2021-01-13T12:34:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=578211"},"modified":"2021-03-23T21:05:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T01:05:13","slug":"moussa-dembele-completes-atletico-madrid-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/13\/moussa-dembele-completes-atletico-madrid-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Moussa Dembele Completes Atletico Madrid Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"\/football\/tag\/Atletico-Madrid\" target=\"_self\">Atletico Madrid<\/a> have officially completed a move for <a href=\"\/football\/tag\/Lyon\" target=\"_self\">Lyon<\/a> striker <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/e7986081\/Moussa-Dembele\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moussa Dembele<\/a> on an initial loan with an option to buy a deal. The Frenchman will act as a replacement for the departing <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/a190d597\/Diego-Costa\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diego Costa<\/a> and will provide backup to <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/a6154613\/Luis-Suarez\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Suarez.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The news comes after various <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/04\/willian-jose-atletico-madrid-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">reports suggested it was Willian Jose<\/a> who Atletico were considering, but, as it turns out, they have moved for Dembele instead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Atletico Madrid Complete Dembele Loan Move<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udd34\u26aa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeDemb%C3%A9l%C3%A9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WelcomeDemb\u00e9l\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Agreement with Olympique Lyonnais over the loan of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MDembele_10?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MDembele_10<\/a> until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u2139\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dNLUQjGPIs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/dNLUQjGPIs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/A%C3%BApaAtleti?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#A\u00fapaAtleti<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/frrO8xUN9C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/frrO8xUN9C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid (@atletienglish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atletienglish\/status\/1349408075111952384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Dembele Needed Move<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The reported move should hand Dembele the opportunity to rediscover his best form. So far this season, the 24-year-old has scored just the one time in 16 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/ligue-1\/\" target=\"_self\">Ligue 1<\/a> appearances after scoring on 24 occasions in 46 games last season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The drop in form was an unforeseen one. Many believed the Frenchman would go on to reach greater heights this campaign instead of falling away from his best form.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Dembele must find his goalscoring boots once more. From Simeone&#8217;s point of view, he&#8217;ll know that the talent is there; it is just about unlocking it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If Atletico can get the best out of Dembele, they&#8217;ll undoubtedly pursue the option to buy at the end of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lyon Leading the Way in France<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Despite Dembele&#8217;s exit, Lyon shouldn&#8217;t struggle for form as they aim to finally dethrone <a href=\"\/football\/tag\/PSG\" target=\"_self\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> in Ligue 1. As it stands, Lyon lead the chasing pack by one point having already defeated PSG this season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Dembele&#8217;s aforementioned poor form means the French club will not miss the forward, but perhaps excel further towards Ligue 1 glory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0With the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/8f696594\/Memphis-Depay\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Memphis Depay<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/a5db0bec\/Houssem-Aouar\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Houssem Aouar<\/a> in the side, too, there may be no stopping Lyon from pulling off the surprise of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mauricio Pochettino, in pursuit of his first title as a manager, will undoubtedly do his best to keep PSG&#8217;s tag as the kings of France- stopping Lyon in the process.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"gTjnKECjRRBiUmASns0wJg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1228061122\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'gTjnKECjRRBiUmASns0wJg',sig:'wybNQYyi30lKUoENt3WWQQccm0E5R-bBxxDHP5i9bGs=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1228061122',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atletico Madrid have officially completed a move for Lyon striker Moussa Dembele on an initial loan with an option to buy a deal. The Frenchman will act as a replacement for the departing Diego Costa and will provide backup to Luis Suarez. The news comes after various reports suggested it was Willian Jose who Atletico [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3402,"featured_media":578214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6,7],"tags":[210,4120,142,6616,976,384,1179,136],"class_list":["post-578211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transfers","category-la-liga","category-ligue-1","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-football-news","tag-la-liga","tag-ligue-1-20-21","tag-lyon","tag-moussa-dembele","tag-transfer-news","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}