This summer,
Olivier Giroud found Ligue 1, thirteen years after leaving it. The striker, who will celebrate his 39th birthday at the end of the month, is committed to LOSC.
However, the former arsenal player almost hung up the crampons. “It crossed my mind to stop, but it went against what I always said to myself, to play as long as my body allows. I did not take enough pleasure in the United States, I needed to find a football that suited me better ”he said during an interview given to the Foobtall club canal.
Another Ligue 1 club had thought of recruiting Olivier Giroud during the last transfer window: FC Lorient. Indeed, the sports director of the Merlus, Laurent Koscielny, knows the attacker well for having evolved with him at the start of his career, in Tours. The two men then retoured at Arsenal in the years 2010.
Giroud, Koscielny tried the blow
“I was honest with him, telling him that the adventure with the Los Angeles FC was probably going to end this summer. It was useless that I stay for the pleasure I took. So he rushed into the breach ” reveals the top scorer in the history of the French team.
Except that the Merlus did not make the weight in the face of the Dogues.
“He said to me: 'I have a small project in Lorient, I put two guys on the sides that will feast on you, young people around you'. When I had Lille, I said to him: 'My chicken these are two different projects. You are promoted and go and play the maintenance, and Lille plays Europe and the top of the painting '. He understood and replied: “What do you want me to fight with Lille? »'.
