The big brother was an attacking midfielder with a big ball strike, the little brother also had a quality left foot but was a remarkable relayer environment. Before the seven seasons of Benoît Cheyrou at OM, for a title of champion of France (2010) and three victories in the League Cup, Bruno had not managed to win the residents of the Stade Vélodrome.
LOSC Vahid Halilhodzic LOSC playful player, from Ligue 2 to the Champions League in one year, Bruno Cheyrou tried his chance in Liverpool, Gérard Houllier recruiting him for 11.5 million euros. The left -hander became French international in 2002 (3 selections in all), but has not really managed to win in the Reds (48 games, 5 goals). He was then loaned to OM in 2004-2005. The Phocaeans had just lost Didier Drogba and notably brought in Péguy Luyindula, Fabrice Fiorèse and Habib Bamogo.
Lining of Laurent Batlles as number 10, Bruno Cheyrou was satisfied with many entries into play (20 matches for a marked goal) but also lost playing time with the emergence of Samir Nasri during the season in question. The prodigy of the Marseille training center was only 17 years old during his beginnings under José Anigo before being further empowered by Philippe Troussier, on the bench from the end of November.
Nasri angry against Cheyrou …
“At OM, Philippe Troussier gave the team in his last chat, two, three hours before the match. He wrote the composition on the board as you start with the goalkeeper and then he went to the replacements. That day, there were to be twenty for sixteen places on the sheet. I was not in the team and he started to give the first replacement, the second, and he has a hole … big white in the room … and there I say: “Cheyrou!” He turns around: “Well, you shouldn't be there, but I still put you on the bench.”
Finally, it was Samir Nasri who ended up in the stands … At the time, he was angry but we talked about it in Canal + and we laughed at it ”launches Cheyrou in the summer special edition of
The team.
Twenty years after this adventure, Bruno Cheyrou and Samir Nasri are now colleagues. Sports director of the Women's Women's Section then responsible for the Recruitment of OL from May 2020 to 2023 (for the little glorious result that we know – with, as a bonus, an astounding declaration on OM in the summer of 2023), the former midfielder has become a consultant again, on Canal+. Nasri is obviously the star worker of Canal Champions Clubalongside Laure Boulleau, the companion of Bruno Cheyrou.
