On Tik Tok, Yohan Mollo claimed that he should have been recruited by OM in 2013, before the club's president, Vincent Labrune, changed his plans and bet on a certain Florian Thauvin.
Disappeared from the radar, Yohan Mollo, who passed through France, Spain and even Russia, has a stubborn grudge. If his career did not take the expected turn in the early 2010s, the attacking midfielder believes that Vincent Labrune has something to do with it. Co-best passer in the French championship following a successful loan to Saint-Etienne, which also allowed him to win a title (League Cup), the only one of his career, Yohan Mollo is in the sight of several Premier League clubs in the summer of 2013. OM is also in the running, and is taking information from AS Nancy Lorraine to which the player belongs. Unfortunately for Mollo, Vincent Labrune, the president, prefers to set his sights on Florian Thauvin.
Orleans connections
“You should know that, when Thauvin signs, I have to sign in his place at OM,” recalls Yohan Mollo during a discussion on a Tik Tok channel. “What made him sign? Look at the connection between Labrune and Thauvin, look at where they come from (both are from Orléans) and you will understand. When a club president openly tells you: 'I don't care, even if I have to put 50 million, the sorrel, it's not mine I want it, I don't care, I want a little one from home in my. team'.” “Me, once again, I am co-best passer, I have the stats, I won a title”, lists Yohan Mollo again. “I am ready for the demands of the high level. Do you think that when you look back on this story, you are not disgusted with football?”
After missing the train to Marseille, Yohan Mollo was finally bought permanently by AS Saint-Etienne in 2014, but his experience in Forez was cut short. Loaned to Russia, to Samara, the attacking midfielder did not settle there in the long term. He then returned to England and continued his wanderings in Qatar and then in Greece. Back in France for three years, Mollo currently plays for FC Istres, in National 2.
The Frenchman also obtained a five-year prison sentence for his former agent, Franck Bichon, sanctioned by the courts for having scammed his client and squandered his assets. A first assessment had estimated the player's losses at 4.2 million euros between 2011 and 2019. Franck Bichon was ordered to pay 10,000 euros to Yohan Mollo in compensation for moral damage and to pay him a provision of 1.4 million of euros pending the assessment of his actual financial damage.
