Time, Florian Thauvin, compressed it. The 32-year-old international attacking midfielder didn’t even need six months to achieve iconic status. The former Marseillais, who returns to the Vélodrome this Saturday (9:05 p.m.) on the occasion of the 19th day of Ligue 1, landed in Lens this summer, weighed down by a small invisible drag: that of a player with a complicated reputation, between haughty and capricious, built in particular by his whirlwind visit to Lille in 2013 where he had flatly refused to play and immediately left for OM. And by his stay in Marseille, where his ego quarrels with Dimitri Payet had fueled the chronicles.
