Its flight was often hampered by opaque clouds. But there, nothing… At first glance. A completely blue horizon. Only below, well below, a few cumulus clouds circulate here and there but so far from the altitude where it has hovered in recent months. At 27 years old, Matthieu Jalibert finally seems to have emerged from the attraction of the earth, the one that has regularly hampered his momentum under the rooster’s jersey.
The Bordeaux-Bègles opener, gifted guided by panache, today seems free of his childish airs, of a bravado boy, of his torments and his fragilities. To the point that Fabien Galthié, the coach who has observed him with a wary eye for so long, decided to place his trust in him.
