In After Foot on RMC, on December 24, Daniel Riolo explained that he was no longer going to use “Bambi” to talk about Bradley Barcola at the player's request. The opportunity for him to compare his situation with that of Rayan Cherki, who used the editorialist's criticisms to progress.
Although he is second top scorer in Ligue 1 with 10 goals, Bradley Barcola has been going through a difficult time for several weeks at Paris Saint-Germain. His poor form also relegated him to the bench during the clash against Olympique Lyonnais, during which Désiré Doué took the spotlight. Despite everything, Daniel Riolo made it known in theAfter Foot that he no longer intended to use the nickname “Bambi” to criticize the 22-year-old striker. And for good reason: the latter was moved.
“I was officially given the message and when it comes from the player, I stop. Because if the guy tells me it's not okay… He took the nickname Bambi very badly and it affected him. Ok, no problem, I don't do it anymore, but that means you're not able to overcome that and I don't think that's very positive,” said the editorialist at RMC the day before. Christmas.
“There are two destinies in parallel”
At the same time, the entourage of Rayan Cherki, who is on the rise at Olympique Lyonnais, also sent a “message” to Daniel Riolo. But not of the same content, because the journalist's “criticism” of the young 21-year-old attacking midfielder has given way to “something very positive” in recent weeks. “I want to like this player,” he recently said.
“I was told that everything I said about him was used to help him progress. Which shows, I think, great mental strength when you rely on what is said,” greets Daniel Riolo, who notes that Bradley Barcola, also trained at OL, is not following the same path.
“There are two destinies in parallel. Two guys who were in Lyon and who left around the same time and who don't have the same mentality or maybe not the same mentality. But I respect both, we has the right to be a little less strong or a little weaker at a given moment”, he said, before singling out “those who say too much good” and who were rave about the Parisian.
“Barcola knows what Cherki knew in advance”
Also in After Foot, Kévin Diaz approves the parallel: “Rayan Cherki is a guy programmed to be the nugget since the U12s or the U10s. He arrived among the seniors too early, with too much expectation and with this side on the fact that it was going to be the new Benzema Then there was an older guy, not necessarily scheduled since he was in reserve and whose club did not necessarily believe in his emergence a little late. arrived with another state of mind, through the back door and with a lot of humility, energy and freshness compared to a Cherki who showed us all the excesses of football business, of a player who earned a lot of money too early, for whom it was difficult to make the effort and understand the demands of the high level. On the other hand, Barcola was taken by Paris Saint-Germain perhaps a little too quickly and too early. met Rayan Cherki a few years in advance. The criticisms, the demands, the comments, the nicknames…”
Which leads Daniel Riolo to this conclusion: “But yes, but football is hard. It's hard to reach the high level. It's not just the glory and the huge salaries. Afterwards you have to be on the field, we have to align performances and respond. There is the Champions League, there is competition. They cannot have it easy and ask that we not talk about them. like this or like that.”
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