Former LOSC player turned consultant and coach, Ludovic Obraniak returned to the heavy news of French football, certain aspects of which are gradually distancing him from football.
Architect of the successes achieved by LOSC more than ten years ago, Ludovic Obraniak recently celebrated his 40th birthday. This milestone reached is an opportunity to return to the news of French football, the slightest twists and turns of which he has been scrutinizing since the end of his career. Not far from the fields, he reconverted himself as a sports consultant, moving from sets to Prime Video to those of The Team Channel where it now appears regularly. He shares his analyzes and his expertise on football, as he recently did in the columns of So
Foot. If he gradually drops out, he himself admits below, the former Lille player will indeed be there, in Lille this Sunday, November 24, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of LOSC.
Like the debates that have been raging for several weeks, Ludovic Obraniak admitted his disenchantment with football: “I consumed a lot of football before and I consume less and less. Maybe because there is too much to see, maybe because the rules have changed too. I like to stay connected to the teams I played on. Especially Lille because I like what’s happening there since the arrival of Olivier Létang. Already before, but the arrival of Fonseca brought stability. The recipe for success is, above all, this. You notice that those who win are those who, at a given moment, build squads over two or three years and, once they reach maturity, make one or two transfers to change everything.”he begins.
A bit of what he experienced during his time in Lille, and the double won: “The team had learned to get to know each other, to know each other, to create bonds and to live together. I followed Klopp's Liverpool a lot because I also found that there was real intelligence in recruitment. In fact, I reconnect with smarter football. I can no longer follow the teams who spend lavishly, who do anything”admitted Ludovic Obraniak, who also played for FC Metz, Girondins de Bordeaux and Werder Bremen.
“People can no longer stand these little arrangements between friends and have stopped being cash cows too”
While he himself admitted to gradually disconnecting from the world of football, at least in its entirety, he opened the debate in a more general way by returning to subjects that have been in the news in recent weeks in France: “I don’t know if football fans are less passionate, but they are more alert to what’s going on. With social networks, we are aware of a lot of things. […] People are better able to find out what's going on behind the scenes. And behind the scenes are really… When you see the LFP, you say to yourself: how can a president with such a deplorable record be re-elected with 85%? It's incomprehensible. We reward people who work poorly. It’s this football of cronyism and between oneself. People can't stand these little arrangements between friends anymore. They stopped being cash cows too. Certainly, there is a question of purchasing power, but there is a side of “we warn you that we do not endorse everything we see and everything that is done”he blurted out.
Very active in the media, he was himself present on the field under the aegis of Prime Video, Ludovic Obraniak believes that the championship is suffering from these internal quarrels:
“The Ligue 1 product is in danger, even though ultimately it was going in the right direction. The results in the Champions League prove it. […] The supremacy of PSG, the overprotection of players by the clubs and the distance they put with their fans, the broadcaster and refereeing concerns lead to giving up. Even I lost a bit at the start of the season. There's nothing that makes me want to go back. It blows us in the face because football is clearly living beyond its means. There is no questioning”he ended up regretting, pointing the finger at length at the repeated outings of Laurent Nicollin, president of Montpellier HSC.
