After getting angry with Montpellier’s possible interest in Wissam Ben Yedder, Daniel Riolo, editorialist for After Foot, explains that he was contacted by Laurent Nicollin, president of Hérault, who formally denied this rumor.
Montpellier is not thinking of Wissam Ben Yedder (34 years old). Laurent Nicollin, president of the Hérault club, formally denied this rumor to Daniel Riolo. Tuesday, the editorialist of After Foot on RMC had launched a violent rant against this information and the possibility of seeing the attacker, sentenced to two years in prison for sexual assault committed in September 2024 and indicted for “rape, attempted rape and sexual assault” in another case, find a club. Laurent Nicollin assures that he never considered such an option with the After journalist who corrected this on Wednesday in the show.
“I really want to know how this thing came out”
“My opinion on possibly taking Ben Yedder, I don’t take a word out of all that,” says Daniel Riolo in the preamble. “On the other hand, on the fact that Montpellier thought about it, Laurent Nicollin contacted me and said: ‘I don’t understand how this story could have come out’. I blame myself a little because it was enough that I sent him a message but this story was relayed so much by a lot of media that Montpellier was interested in this player and I was speechless when he told me that.
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-“Laurent Nicollin said to me: ‘how could this have come out? I swear to you that not for a second did we think about taking this player'”, continues Daniel Riolo. “He tells me that he has never thought about it and that no one at the club is going to think about it. He told me: ‘I prefer that you call me and ask me the question’ and I don’t care. I don’t want to have asked him based on what had almost become global information, so I really want to know how this thing came out.”
“I correct”
Free since his departure from Monaco last summer, Ben Yedder is in physical contact and nothing is stopping him from finding a club, despite several upcoming meetings with the law. In this context, the rumor of a possible rebound in Hérault has emerged in recent days. In a rather mysterious way.
“The idea that Ben Yedder could interest Montpellier has been widely relayed,” concludes Daniel Riolo. “I responded to Laurent Nicollin by telling him that there was no problem in making the correction and relaying his words. He told me: “never for a second did I think that a guy like that come to my club, it doesn’t correspond to my values’. Some said that Loulou Nicollin (his father) would never have accepted something like that. I can understand that Laurent Nicollin, the son, is touched that values are attributed to his father that he would not have been capable of maintaining. It doesn’t do me any harm and I find it very good to say, ‘I never thought about that, correct it’. I’m correcting it, it’s done.”
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