He addressed the subject publicly for the first time. The sports director of OGC Nice Florian Maurice admitted on Friday to having experienced “a difficult period”, after the incidents which occurred on the evening of November 30, during which he was attacked by disgruntled supporters.
“It was a difficult period, I won’t hide it from you,” he explained during the presentation of Nice’s first recruit of the winter transfer window, striker Elye Wahi. “Afterwards, I took refuge in work, with my family, within the club which supported me a lot. It’s important to say it,” he continued.
Without overplaying, the head of sports policy for the Riviera club said: “I am here, I am present. I will fight to have a transfer window that can help the team find a little fun, a little sun, a little joy and victories. I feel good. How are you. »
“He was a little too exposed”
Having returned to the head of the club since these incidents, which cost their positions to Fabrice Bocquet, then president, then Franck Haise, coach, Jean-Pierre Rivère, present alongside Maurice and Wahi, did not fail to castigate the management of his predecessor.
“Florian (Maurice) was a little too exposed for my taste,” Rivère said. Because transfers are never individual work, they are collective work. »
Since these incidents which occurred upon returning from a Ligue 1 match lost by Nice in Lorient, the players Terem Moffi and Jérémie Boga, targeted on this occasion, have, like the club, filed a complaint against X, and are on sick leave. OGC Nice occupies 13th place in the ranking, before hosting Strasbourg on Saturday.
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