Souleymane Diawara: “In Lyon, they were perhaps jealous of him… It was the handsome kid who arrived, the new Zizou…”

For Angel GRthe former central defender of the Girondins de Bordeaux,
Souleymane Diawaraspoke about his former Bordeaux teammate, Yoann Gourcuffand his career.

“Yo, it's a treat when you play with him… Technically, he's beautiful to watch play. He eliminates two, three players, like against PSG… My view on his career? Yes, we would have liked to see it a little higher but what do you want, it's football… There are plenty of people we would like to see up there, but it's not going there… Afterwards, Yo, you know, I think it's in his head… If he feels good, very good, he has the confidence… He needs us to be behind him, a bit like Jean-Louis did Gasset in Bordeaux. He enjoyed himself. In Lyon, it perhaps went less well because he didn't get along with the Lyon gang… I don't know, maybe they were jealous of him… It was the handsome kid who arrived , the new Zizou, the one which is sponsored by a big luxury brand, which makes the front page of the big magazines… This also creates a little jealousy on the part of players who are already in place but who don't have that… Lyon had fucked her piggy bank for him, they had put in a lot of money, they paid him a lot of money too… that all leads to jealousy. I wasn't in the Lyon locker room, but things didn't go well there, with the Lyon gang.”

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