Everything can go very quickly in football. Another 10 months ago, Rayan Cherki was at the end of the course at OL, his training club, and his managers hoped to sell it to recover 15 or 20 million euros (especially in Dortmund). The crack formed by the Gones had been selected for the French team for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games by Thierry Henry, but the Blueberry coach made him play very little.
The 98 world champion had a very clear hierarchy in the attacking sector. To feed Alexandre Lacazette and Jean-Philippe Mateta, the keys to the game were entrusted to Michael Olise (excellent from the start of the tournament), with Maghnes Akliouche and Désiré Doué in first choices at the bench. Cherki, he did not come into play during the first two games and during the quarter -final against Argentina. During the half in Lyon, against Egypt (1-0 AP), he has long warmd up in front of his supporters and Henry only launched him at the 118th minute!
Staying at OL, Rayan Cherki, 21, finally made a superb season by finally being effective and becoming essential to the collective, with 8 goals scored and 11 assists given in Ligue 1 as well as four goals and 8 assists in the Europa League. Didier Deschamps rewarded him by summoning him to the French team A for the Final Four of the Nations League (semi-final against Spain on June 5, before a final or a match for 3rd place against Germany or Portugal).
Thierry Henry: “But there he understood”
“We didn't give him anything, he got out of it, and that too is the strength of a big one. Everyone knows what they can do. And this season, he has shown that he also knew how to do what is expected of him without the ball, that is to say to adapt to a system ”welcomes Thierry Henry in the columns of
The team. “His problem is that he had never been able to chain the matches to show the extraordinary player that he is”he continues.
Henry is now convinced of this, Cherki has understood all the high level requirements in order to become a great player. The technician confirms to The team:: “For me, we are talking about a guy who should have been fighting with others for a long time, at the top, to find out who is the best. He has been late, because he took a long time to understand … But there he understood “. Everything goes very quickly in football, therefore.
