From Herta to Union, Lucas Tousart stayed in Berlin this summer, but not at the same club. The opportunity for the defensive midfielder to return to the Champions League, which he had not played in for three seasons. In an extremely tough group with Real Madrid and Naples, which he faces this Tuesday evening at 9 p.m., the former Olympique Lyonnais player engaged in The Team on his acclimatization in his new team, while looking back on his transfer from Lyon to Herta Berlin in 2020. “When you arrive and you see that it’s going to be much more complicated than what we promised you, it’s not easy mentally. You wonder if you made the right choice. And in the meantime, you have to perform well because a lot is expected of you.”he says.
“I was paid a large amount (€25 million) and, from the first year, I was asked to be a leader, without understanding the language. I was lost at the start, it didn’t play at all like in Ligue 1. After a few months, I was able to free myself from this pressure by telling myself that it wasn’t me who had set the amount and I gave the maximum. I knew it and Lyon told me: Hertha had overpaid me., confides Lucas Tousart, lucid. Today well settled at Union Berlin, far from the difficult seasons with Herta, the native of Arras says he “sad for the players and members of the club with whom (he is) still in contact” at OL. “There, it really goes in all directions. Perhaps things should have been handled differently”he adds regarding the catastrophic situation of Les Gones.
