Enzo Scifothe former Girondins de Bordeaux player, recounted his departure from FCGB for AJ Auxerre.
“It was very important when I decided to play for Auxerre. In fact, they always say that you meet people at the right time, and probably in my football career, I think I made one of my best career choices. This story was very complicated. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was in Bordeaux, on loan, and the loan was very high. We were talking about 80 million Belgian francs, for a two-season loan. It was a lot of money. Sometimes, with an amount like that, we bought a player, while I was on loan. After the first year, finances in Bordeaux were complicated, and there was no longer talk of athletes. I had a fairly good half-season, and as there were a lot of financial problems, we decided to part ways so as not to have Bordeaux pay for the second year because as a reminder, I belonged to Inter Milan. The only possibility I had of going to Auxerre was to make financial concessions. Otherwise it was impossible… Financially, with Guy, you don't even hope for it. One day, a journalist from L'Equipe called me and said 'we were asked not to do any more interviews with you, but I want to do one'. I didn't really understand, because I was 22 years old, I was a good kid… There was no reason to move away, I didn't know that there were all these financial problems, etc… This journalist interviews me and I tell him that the condition for leaving is that it is a club that plays in the European Cup; And there, the journalist tells me that there is only one club that could welcome me and that only has one foreigner, and that is Auxerre. And I tell him I’m going there right away.”
This is the trigger.
“The next day Guy Roux calls me and asks me if it’s true. I tell him yes, that I really mean it and that what's more, I want to play, that I was tired of staying on the sidelines. He answers me that 'if we all make concessions, I will do everything for it'. Two days later, we are in Paris, in Orly, in a hotel at the airport, with the leaders of Inter, Bordeaux, Guy Roux, the President of Auxerre, and also my father, my lawyer… We are We stayed in a room for 17 hours, we couldn't do it any longer. Finally, I reduced my salary by three, and that was the only possibility for me to play there. When I say choices are important… It was the love of wanting to play. I was starting to earn a very good living, and that was also a goal. But at one point, I wasn't happy, I wasn't playing, I was training badly… He, Guy Roux, was the trigger, because he had the words, the way to integrate me, motivation… In fact it gave me the pleasure again.”
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