“Dear, exact value yet to be determined, Wesley,
If I write to you, it is of course and above all to ask you to stay with us. But if I left it there, you wouldn’t see the difference between a column and things that are said in all cafes before 10 p.m. Throughout your dossier, since you have to call it that, there are notions to question and we could really write an encyclopedia if we weren’t afraid of falling into filthy mediocrity. Me, I want to focus on one question: Does the Wesley Fofana that I got to know a short time ago only think about the money at the expense of the club that formed him? Apparently that’s the thesis of a lot of people and you will agree, my Wesley, that everyone understands that way. But since what everyone understands always strikes me as a trap, I want to go further. Of course, I read your interview in the main sports daily that I don’t want to advertise more than that.
I read that, in your opinion, one does not refuse an offer from Leicester and that you are primarily working for your family. But you will grant me that this kind of position would be taken by everyone if it was the only criterion of choice. Besides, you come to explain to us that there are idiots who have taken after your family from the moment you mentioned the idea of leaving. Let me tell you here that, contrary to what some of my fellow supporters have said, I don’t think it’s mythology on your part and even that it can be a trigger for wanting to quit .
But admit for your part that you could not claim that this handful of morons constitutes the armed wing of all the green people. The green people love you and will love you no matter what choice you make.
“What I ask you and everyone who follows your case to understand is that this year you are not replaceable. This is one thing that will change but it is like that for now. “
But back on topic. This idea that you would ultimately be a mercenary who thinks only of sorrel bothers me because, in addition to what we have already said about your desire to shelter your family, this idea carries within it a consistent smelly notion. to reduce young football players, often from working-class backgrounds, to poor people who dream of making easy money. There is a hint of social racism there. After all, who are the people who love money the most? Those who already have it because they know very well how they can do to earn more. And those, I can tell you that the love of the jersey, they do not care.
But what I can also tell you is that they are very rarely players. Those who believe that your transfer is inevitable or even essential on pain of committing professional misconduct, it is the agents who will be able to binge and many commentators who are what I will call the football boomers who think that today, it responds above all to a capitalist model. These people think that we can take planes to organize competitions with matches one day in France and the next day in Australia.
So the question is not an opposition between Wesley Fofana and the club that formed him and that he loves, the question is: should we refuse a sum of money that would go into the coffers of the A.S.S.E. ?
And it is because I consider myself that we would have nothing to do well with the sum of your transfer and that I see that, holder or replacement, you bring a lot to the balance of our eleven, that I don’t think you should leave this year.
If we’re going to get money into the club, we have to do it through sports results. What I ask to understand, from you and all those who follow your file, is that, this year, you are not replaceable. This is one thing that will change but it is like that for now.
Coach Puel wants to build a long-term project and, this year, this project clearly goes through you. If we lighten the payroll well and we have at least a decent season, thanks in particular to you, there will be no reason to keep you any longer and I bet you your last jersey of the season that the offers will be more consequent concerning you than that of Leicester. Deal ? “
Your devoted Dominique Bréard, who believes that the wealth of his club comes from its players and not from the money it can receive.