Zapping Goal! Football club ASSE: Laurent Hess’s edit on Anthony Modeste’s difficult adaptation
It is the crisis at all levels among the Girondins de Bordeaux. Since M6 sold the club to GACP and King Street, the tap has been cut and the best players are sold one after the other. The supporters are at war with the management, the players of the first team criticize each other and even the training center takes for its rank. He is criticized for not “getting out” enough good players. But its director, Patrick Battiston, defended his record in comments reported by Girondins4ever and in particular cited the name of Stéphanois Zaydou Youssouf.
“Youssouf, is it not a success?”
“Jules Koundé, Aurélien Tchouaméni, Zaydou Youssouf, Gaëtan Laborde, for you, it’s not a success? When the CIES data came out, I zapped, and today everyone is referring to that. 2014-2015, we were 7th in Europe. There, last year, we were 19th in the five biggest European leagues. In 2018, we were 16th, and we had 41 players playing in the five biggest leagues. We were behind Arsenal, but ahead of Bayern Munich, AS Roma, Atalanta, FC Nantes, Espanyol… “
“I can only tell you that. The statistics are there, it was not me who made them. You will say that it suits me but no, it does not suit me at all. A player, we try to Train him as best as possible, we try to instill certain things in him. And at one point the player who responds to the coach, who does not invest… I would like them all to be top level players but some On the other hand, there is a moment when you have to let them go into the wild and you are not always behind them, and sometimes they have difficulty. “
“We want to have local recruitment, regional recruitment. It is an identity. What is important is to say that people recognize themselves in someone. Jules Koundé comes from La Brède. Aurélien Tchouaméni comes from right next to Bordeaux. Zaydou Youssouf too. Gaëtan Laborde was a Mont-de-Marsan player. You have to respect the people who are in place, who work, and also respect the Girondins de Bordeaux. This is fundamental. We have the right to criticize, to disagree, I have no problem with that. But at some point, you have to be honest. “
#ASSE When Battiston evokes Youssouf: Former defender of the Greens and current director of the Girondins de Bordeaux training center, Patrick Battiston (64 years since the day before yesterday) denies leaving few players in a … https: //t.co / kzHATWTCHW
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