In an interview with journalist Timothé Crépin, the former defender of the Girondins de Bordeaux, Malcom Bokéléremembered his time at FC Metz.
“It trained me mentally, because I wasn’t playing. It was a pretty special club. I had some great meetings with players but… What kept me going was being with Georges and my little brother. I had a mid-season interview, I'm in the office with two coaches. One of them tells me that I won't go further than N2-National. You can't be so crude… I didn't have a reaction at the time, because he was very crude. These people, they give their opinion, they are not necessarily right, so I continued to work. They didn't keep me, and I left for Bordeaux. What hurt me was the comments made, but otherwise it didn't hurt me that they didn't keep me […] What saved me was that I always believed in myself.”
He then left the Metz club for the Girondins, but did not play from April to September.
“Bordeaux in a word? Magic. It's a club where I arrived late. In fact, it was as if I had been trained there. It was incredible. I had some crazy encounters. There was everything in this club, from the first professional contract, the extension, my first training, my first professional match… Everything. I trained quickly with the pros. When I arrived in October, in February I trained with the pros”
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