Ousmane Dembélé turned up 50 minutes early to training yesterday, perhaps in a bid to atone showing up two hours late for the previous session.
Dembélé had “liked” some critical tweets from influential Catalan journalist Gerard Romero in the intervening time. Romero had gone on a rant, accusing the Frenchman of a serious lack of commitment. This, it seemed, was an ironic “like” towards the journalist.
Romero replied in kind, with a series of “clapping” emojis that also seemed ironic as he celebrated “the alarm going off.”
“When [Dembélé being early] is news, the situation is worse than we thought,” Romero said.