Friends insist Barcelona attacker Ousmane Dembele has the right support network.

Barca officials have concerns over Dembele's dietary habits and lifestyle away from the club.

But close friend Moustapha Diatta insisted to France Football: "When you become rich and famous, new friends appear.

"With us, Ousmane knows that it is a sincere relationship, that we did not wait for him to become what he is to be close to him. The truth is that, as there was a big investment in him, there is impatience and that one tries to explain everything by the entourage, the lifestyle, his supposed shyness or I do not know what.

"But it'll be enough that he connects on the ground and one will not look for reasons after that."