contradictory announcement on the relationship between Samba and Mandanda

Brice Samba should make his first start with Stade Rennais this Saturday against Olympique de Marseille, one of his former clubs. Thus, the former RC Lens will put the very experienced Steve Mandanda on the substitutes’ bench. A strong choice from Jorge Sampaoli who hopes to add OM to his list. But in today’s edition, L’Equipe reports that even if they have a fairly similar background, the relationship between the two goalkeepers deteriorated somewhat when they were still in the Marseille city.

“Things were going very well between them”

In 2013, Brice Samba moved to Marseille to become Steve Mandanda’s understudy, who had been in place for six seasons. However, at the age of 18, Samba coveted with a wolf’s hunger the place of the indestructible Mandanda. OM goalkeeper coach at the time, Laurent Spinosi stated in the columns of the sports daily that “Things were going very well between them”he declared. However, relations between the two became complicated between the two. “The timing may surprise me, but it doesn’t surprise me in the sense that he had already been dismissed at OM with Sampaoli and it doesn’t surprise me either that Samba comes, despite Mandanda. He has his contract, he won’t don’t look at who there is, and if it hadn’t been him, it would have been someone else.” he added. Is Steve Mandanda heading towards the end of his career, seeing the competition passing him by?

Also read:

OM, Rennes: a catastrophic relationship announced between Mandanda and Samba

Featured Podcasts

MEN LIFE