It will obviously take more than three ends of the match to draw definitive lessons, but in just 68 minutes of play in Ligue 2, Khalil Ayari has clearly not gone unnoticed. Loaned by Paris Saint-Germain to Dunkirk for the coming season – his first professionally in Europe – the Tunisian winger has already shown that he has something under his belt.
Entering at the end of the match against Grenoble on the first day (4-2), the 21-year-old winger showed off his technical finesse through some spectacular gestures that Ligue 2 is not necessarily used to offering. He was also able to relieve his team with his ability to keep the balls and seek out several fouls, always with this liveliness and this mastery of dribbling which make him difficult to stop.
Paris decided to buy it permanently this summer
“I think it’s a player profile that our team was missing. He played the World Cup with Tunisia, he then started training with the PSG first team, he is ready”Dunkirk coach Albert Sanchez rejoiced recently. Last weekend, the left-hander again gave a glimpse of his potential by entering thirty minutes from the end of the match against Reims (3-3). Trailing 3-1 at the hour mark, the maritime club finally equalized in stoppage time thanks to a penalty scored by Robinet (90+7th, 3-3), but obtained by Ayari, cut down in the area.
“The Northerners only existed at the end of the match thanks to the individual actions of Souleymane Keita and especially Khalil Ayariwrote again The Voice of the North yesterday after Dunkirk’s defeat against Montpellier (0-1). The player on loan from PSG showed that he had fire in his legs and perhaps gold in his feet. The rest will tell.» For the newspaper, its main margin for progress lies in “the expression of one’s collective game”. By also gaining in efficiency and regularity, the prospects could quickly become very interesting for the player that Paris has chosen to snatch permanently from the Stade Tunisien this summer for €1.5 million.
