Maxence Caqueret and Rayan Cherki, two players trained at OL (Photo by OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE / AFP)
By choosing to set sail to relaunch his career, Maxence Caqueret is leaving a club with which he has known everything. His performance at the Final 8 in Lisbon will surely be his peak at OL.
See you almost 25 years old, Maxence He would lie down chose to set sail. Between a complicated individual situation in recent months and the need to sellOLthere was a good chance of seeing the midfielder leave his training club. This is now the case since Sunday with the signing of a contract until June 2029 with the Italian club Como. A surprising destination, despite the project started in Lombardy, and far from the future that was promised to Maxence Caqueret in the summer of 2020. At that time, all Lyon supporters saw him joining at one time or another a top European club after a demonstration during the Final 8 of the Champions League in Lisbon. Whether facing the Juventus Turin, Manchester City and even the Bayern Munich in the semi-finals, the midfielder burst onto the scene, a year and a half after his professional debut.
OL did not surf this route
At the moment, the trajectory was ultimately different, but the move to Serie A could well change things. In any case, the departure of He would lie down definitively turns the page on this European epic in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis. The former Espoir international was the last of the starters against the Bayern still present in the Lyon squad. Everyone has now set sail and this observation can also extend to the sidelines. Of all the players at Rudi Garcia's disposal, only Rayan now remains Cherki. A player whose more or less short-term future is more than uncertain.
The line-up against Bayern Munich: Lopes – Dubois, Denayer, Marcelo, Marçal, Cornet – Caqueret, Guimarães, Aouar – Toko-Ekambi, Depay
The bench: Tatarusanu – Bard, Rafael, Andersen, Diomandé, Tete, Thiago Mendes, Queen-Adelaide, Jean Lucas, Cherki, Traoré, Dembélé
