Florian Thauvin is back in Ligue 1.. The 2018 world champion winger, who has been playing for a year and a half for Udinese for a year and a half, has chosen to join the RC Lens for the coming season.
A transfer that arouses as much curiosity as skepticism, especially in Daniel Riolo. On RMC, in the After Foot, the journalist did not hide his doubts.
“I always have a curiosity to see very well known guys like it coming back. Now, I also have a little twisted spirit and I see that it was at Udinese. I am told that it was good there, that it had become essential. And it leaves the Serie A to come to Lens? OK, it is the friend of Jean-Louis Leca. Ok the project he liked it curious. Championship that no longer has a radish. ”
Convincing in n ° 10?
For Riolo, Thauvin's choice questions, especially in terms of his sporting situation in Italy, where he would have found a new, more axial role. “It seems that a new role was discovered in number ten. I’m looking forward to seeing that.”
The consultant nevertheless remains intrigued by the Lensois project under Pierre Sage, the new coach arrived from OL: “I also look forward to seeing what Pierre Sage will do with this team. I am very excited to see guys like that who come back like Olivier Giroud in Lille or Florian Thauvin in Lens.”
If he does not completely close the door to a success of the world champion, Daniel Riolo clearly suggests that he does not fully believe in the return in grace of the former Marseillais in a championship which he deems financially and sportingly weakened. Thauvin, he will have the opportunity to prove him wrong as soon as the recovery.
