Looking back at the beginning of Koscielni's arrival, the evaluation of former Bordeaux scout Kalip may be telling the problem: this transfer has been wrong and doomed to failure from the beginning.
On March 26, 36-year-old French centre-back Laurent Koscherny confirmed his official retirement by sending a letter to the media, bidding farewell to his 19 years of sweating professional football. The arsenal's former meritorious captain has gradually withdrawn from the mainstream of football since his retirement from the French national team and the official announcement of his joining Bordeaux. However, the end of his career was still a constant topic, controversy and twisting, which became the last impression that Koscherne left on people. As he has looked like throughout his career – imperfect, but eventually sometimes.
In the summer of 2019, Koscielny joined Bordeaux for a transfer fee of 5 million euros, leaving Arsenal, with whom he completed mutual achievements. In the official video, Koss Schellney took off the Gunner's shirt that he had worn for 9 years, revealing the Bordeaux jersey inside, accompanied by a smile and a new look. Some public opinion on the gunners side believes that Koscherne's flattering dedication to the new owner lacks reverence and respect for the old owner, and there is no shortage of fierce criticism.
But Koscherny's life in his new home wasn't much better. Committed to Bordeaux, Koscherny's weekly salary was reduced from 105,000 euros to 60,000 euros, guaranteed by the club's pursuit of Champions League qualification and the introduction of Olivier Giroud. As a result, there was no reunion with Giroud, and Bordeaux was even more mired in relegation. Although Koscielni joined with a salary cut, for a Ligue 1 club like Bordeaux, his salary is already at the top of the pyramid. Then the epidemic struck, and Koscherne directly became a high-paying burden for Bordeaux.
Looking back at the evaluation of Former Bordeaux scout Kalip at the beginning of the French center-back's arrival, this transfer was wrong from the beginning and doomed to a failed ending, "In other words, I could not have spent 5 million to sign a 34-year-old player. Yes, he has been selected for the national team many times, he is also very famous, he is a good player. But Bordeaux signed him a 4-year contract! Spend 3.5 million yuan on him every year, almost 15 million in 4 years! ”
Bordeaux, known as the "black shop", is a springboard for stars to become talented, relying on the survival mode of selling people back to blood, when Carlip gave a very specific option, "such as Nîmes's Brianson (then 23-year-old French centre-back), we can help him go up a notch, and then sell to the top league for 8-12 million two years later, such as the Premier League." But we'll never be able to sell Koscherny! Bordeaux advocates a culture-trade business model, but you can only sell young people, not veterans of this age! ”
Perhaps Bordeaux have ambitions to advance into the Champions League with old help and new ones. But the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted everything and no one can predict it. After 29 rounds of Ligue 1 this season, Bordeaux are at the bottom of the league with 4 wins, 10 draws and 15 losses, while the rift between Koscielny and the club is getting bigger and bigger, and after this winter, they are completely excluded from the squad.
Koscielny disagrees with Bordeaux's way of life, as evidenced by last summer's speech, in which the Bordeaux captain publicly appealed: "Don't treat players as commodities." "Directly punched the owner in the face." With poor financial conditions, Bordeaux chose to move top-paid player Koscielney out of the first team in the second half of the season, without informing the players themselves. In an interview with the Team Newspaper, Koss schellney described the situation this way: "The night before, the chairman called my agent. The next day I went to training as usual, but no one took care of me. Then I spoke to the top and they said they wanted to help me find a way out of my future and I could continue to train with the first team. But they didn't tell me why, they just prevaricated with a new strategy, saying that management would find a solution that worked for everyone. ”
The ultimate solution offered by Bordeaux was to make Koss Schellney an ambassador, "to contribute to the development of the club's international partnership and continue to serve the club with his rich experience." The so-called breakup does not separate the family, and Koss schellny also chose to accept. Although his level of competition is still maintained at the first-line level, although his departure from Arsenal is related to "the inability to maintain the intensity of 40-50 games in a season", as of the end of the 2020-21 season, Koscielny, who has suffered a rupture of the Achilles tendon, has a success rate of 65% in the previous six seasons, and after transferring to Ligue 1, he is more in the New Year, and by the 2020-21 season, his ground and air confrontation success rates have reached 72% and 74%, respectively.
But this can not stop the Slide deeper into the abyss of Bordeaux, Kosscherni's health has also been problematic, this season before being completely eliminated from the lineup, he made 11 appearances for Bordeaux, plagued by injuries and new crown, a total of 9 missed. Kosserni was not present and the fans still regarded him as a member of the team. At the same time as the announcement of hanging up the boots, Kosscherne was caught up in the racism controversy, but this wave was purely innocent. In the 29th round of Ligue 1, Bordeaux won 0-2 at home to Montpellier. Fans mourned the club and threw anger at the players, and the extreme fan group "Super Deep Blue" slammed the 35-year-old captain & goalkeeper Costi on the spot, accusing him of unfairly attacking Malmö's loan general, 23-year-old Bosnian centre-back Ahmed Hodzic, and some of the remarks were even more racist. Former captain Kos Schellney was seen as a top locker room executive, and was scolded and accused of inaction.
Koss Schellney could not have imagined that he would be insulted by fans for this reason, having left the game since January. Bordeaux had to issue a public announcement to debunk the grievances of the French centre-back, saying that he had not been summoned by an internal investigation or made discriminatory remarks, otherwise he could not have been entrusted with the responsibility of ambassador of the club.
Ligue 1 has come to an end, and even if there is a miracle, it will not be able to stop the fate of Bordeaux's relegation. Koscherne hung up his boots at this time, and also spared the fate of coming out of Ligue B to saying goodbye to Ligue B. The change of identity, a generation of iron-blooded defenders since then waved goodbye to the transformation, under the shadow of loneliness, is an innumerable sigh and regret.
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