Giroud: Teammate’s Lille Recruitment Attempt | Football Video

Olivier Giroud made an unexpected return to Ligue 1 this summer. The top scorer in the history of the French team joined LOSC, 5th last season and who therefore participates in the Europa League. Before this surprise recruitment, there were few of them imagining his return to the French championship, which had seen him explode at the highest level under the Montpellier colors.

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There is one who had considered this option, it was Laurent Koscielny, his former teammate in the French team and in Arsenal. The two men, very close, exchange regularly and the former defender of the Blues was therefore aware of the will of Giroud to leave the Los Angeles FC due to a lack of “pleasure”. In view of the situation, “he had surveyed me,” said Giroud at the microphone of Canal +. “He rushed into the breach,” he continues about the one who has since become sports director of FC Lorient, recently promoted in Ligue 1.

He explains that he tried to sell him a “small project in Lorient”. “Listen I put two guys on the sides, young people around you,” he would have promised him. A project that quickly fell into the water when the LOSC proposal arrived. “I said to him:” They are still two different projects, you are promoted, you will play the maintenance. Lille is still something else, it plays Europe and the top of the painting, “he said that he had confided to him transparently.” He understood, “says Giroud, for whom the choice was not particularly difficult despite his proximity to Koscielny.