"I'm not going to take any credit from Ousmane! He's a phenomenally talented footballer who's worked incredibly hard to get where he is, Jacobson smiles. Whether it was his idea or the manager's at Paris Saint-Germain to switch him from playing wide to playing in the middle, but the way he's adapted to that, he's thoroughly deserving of the Ballon d'Or and hopefully he'll still have time to play Football Manager!"
"We can take a little bit of credit for telling the whole world about him when he was a 16-year-old that no one knew anything about but I can't take anything away from him at all. I wouldn't like to play against him in an online game of FM!"
Ousmane Dembele is a devoted Football Manager player who previously went viral for attempting to lead fictional Winchester FC into the Premier League. Dembele won the 2025 Ballon d'Or after adapting from a wide role to a central false nine, demonstrating notable tactical intelligence under Luis Enrique. Miles Jacobson, studio director at Sports Interactive, declines credit for Dembele's rise while praising his talent and hard work. Jacobson notes Sports Interactive helped publicize Dembele as an obscure 16-year-old, and suggests that players who work hard draw ideas from many sources, including games like Football Manager.
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