The image has gone around the world. This Tuesday, in the middle of the Champions League, while Dortmund obtains a crucial penalty against Juventus, Serhou Guirassy seizes the ball. But Ramy Bensebaini, appointed shooter by the coach, claims it. There follows a tense discussion, a floating, before the Algerian transforms the sentence. End of history? No way. The apparently harmless incident set fire to a barrel of powder.
Guirassy agent sets fire to the powder
The controversy has taken a completely different dimension with the intervention of Serhou Guirassy's agent. And he didn't do lace. “Why choose Ramy rather than your top scorer and the top scorer in the competition last season?” “, He questioned on social networks, before letting go of a barely veiled threat: “I am the agent, tomorrow morning at the airport I await management and the coach. I will do worse than Bellingham's parents. »»
A declaration of rare violence, which transforms a simple fact of play into a real state affair.
These words are a direct attack on the authority of the coach, Niko Kovac, who had nevertheless been very clear: Bensebaini was the number one shooter. This media outing puts huge pressure on the club and may leave deep traces in the locker room. We are no longer talking about a simple disagreement, but an open conflict.
A club under tension
This affair reveals the tensions that convent in a club that has trouble managing the egos of its stars. Management has tried to turn off the fire, the sports director Sebastian Kehl assuring that the two players “get along well”. But the exit of Guirassy's agent proves that the discomfort is much deeper.
It is no longer a simple history of penalty. It is a question of authority, respect for instructions, and the growing influence of agents in modern football. Borussia Dortmund is found with a real time bomb in their hands. Each future missteps, each new opportunity missed by one or the other of the players, will revive this controversy. The circus is just beginning
