When designating the best coach with whom he worked, Steve Mandanda, just retired, was not long to give the name of Didier Deschamps. “I have never known a coach like him. If I had to quote only one coach, it would be him. He knows how to win ”, he thus entrusted this week to The team.
Steve Mandanda teammate at Olympique de Marseille, Mamadou Niang also holds Didier Deschamps in very high esteem. And this despite an uninformed promise which led to his departure from the Marseille club.
While he is very close to joining Olympique Lyonnais, with which he has an agreement, the Senegalese striker is retained by Didier Deschamps, just arrived at the club. “” He wants me to stay, that I am the captain of this team ”, He explained to Hervé Mathoux in the detective Mathoux program, adding that the former midfielder makes him a promise:
“If we win something, next year you will get what you ask”
The promise of Didier Deschamps not held
A year later, Mamadou Niang is disillusioned. With the double directed by the sky and white, the old Strasbourg nevertheless imagines himself in a position of strength. “” We do the double, Championship – League Cup. I finish top scorer in the championship, I finish in the best smugglers, I am a best player in the championship. I think I would be legitimate to claim what he had promised me the season before. »»
But the player trained at ES Troyes collides with a wall. “Except that Dassier says to me” We cannot give you this contract, you are too old, we do not count on you “, he said. Behind, I have the proposal of Fenerbahçe which falls, just the increase he (Editor's note Deschamps) had promised me the year before and that OM refused by saying that they had no money. »»
And the disappointment is all the greater for Mamadou Niang since OM breaks its piggy bank on the transfer market. “When I go behind, behind they recruit two attackers-Loïc Rémy and André-Pierre Gignac-at exorbitant prices. It had disappointed and struggled, ” he still deplored.
