Present on the set ofAfter Foot this Wednesday, the former Gones Sidney Govou was not very complimentary about the Lyon adventure of Memphis Depay. “You don’t build a player, you build a team. There was a deception at that time. Memphis was harmful for the future, he cannot be an example for young people. It takes nothing away from the magnificent side of the player. It can be exceptional. He was able to save the team on matches. But it’s over time that you build a club. And we knew Memphis was going to leave eventually.explained the 43-year-old man.
Drawing the parallel with his own experience as an Olympique Lyonnais player, he continued: “He is not one of the players who stay ten years in a club and who develop a club. I have known very strong collectives. If a player started to go too high, collectively we could catch him. Juninho, for example, was our best player but he had a strong character. It wasn’t easy every day, he grumbled a lot, but we had a strong collective. Claudio (Caçapa) could tell him to calm down. » A harsh observation, but perhaps one of the most lucid.
