- The Girondins de Bordeaux travel to Angers on Sunday (3 p.m.) for the second day of Ligue 1.
- Paul Baysse, who finally played again after 531 without an official match, will be in the game again.
- After two and a half years of struggle since his return to the club, the 32-year-old defender finds the light with Jean-Louis Gasset.
Even in the haircut. Yes, yes, the comparison holds well so far between Jesus Christ and Paul Baysse. Like the first at one time, the second is experiencing, at its level, a sort of "resurrection" in the Girondins de Bordeaux. Indeed, the defender was not in the cellar as it is customary to say when a player who no longer plays for a while, but at the bottom of the tomb. At 32, the mummification was even further away for the one who finally replayed last Friday against Nantes (0-0) after 531 days without an official match. That is, one year, five months and twelve days. An endless tunnel.
Before August 22, 2020, Paul Baysse had not seen a ray of light for nearly two and a half years. Gustavo Poyet and Paulo Sousa taking care to close the door of the first team of the Girondins to him while Fabien Mercadal just opened it during his loan to Caen before slamming him better in the face. Both figuratively and literally.
Upon his return, everything derailed!
However, the former Nice defender had certainly not imagined this at all in January 2018 when he returned to his training club. Him, the pure Bordeaux native. But it took barely two games for everything to derail: recruited by Jocelyn Gourvennec in the midst of a sporting crisis, he caused the defeat of his team in his second match with a penalty and a red card after a nasty nudge. The next day, the Breton coach was sacked. Even if he then played a few meetings with his successor, "he was quickly removed from the team by Poyet who did not want him," recalls his entourage. For the record, he will be loaned to Caen in the summer of 2018, two days before the Urugayen is in turn sacked at the Girondins.
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- 20 Minutes (@ 20Minutes) January 10, 2018In Normandy, he sees the light a few months before falling into a black hole: “It was the stampede. A very difficult time. Worse than in Bordeaux. In addition to the spat, he was a little traumatized by his time there, ”explains one of his relatives.
Some will suggest that he even came to blows with Fabien Mercadal when he had just exchanged a few words and typed a bottle in front of a trainer who provoked him. On his return to Gironde in the summer of 2019, the Stations of the Cross continued. He is part of the "loft", the group of players who train apart from the professional team. Lecce (Italy), Apoël Tel-Aviv (Israel), Levadiakos and AEK Athens (Greece) are interested in him but he refuses to leave.
Deliverance after a white season
“He stayed for several reasons. Already, he wanted at all costs to wear the Girondins jersey. He always believed in it! Then there is the family context. He is the father of a family and he came out of two moves in one year. Finally, we must not lie to each other, he also has an excellent salary in Bordeaux (100,000 euros per month) ”, lists a leader. His choice to stay will cost him a blank season with Paulo Sousa! Zero minutes played and two sidelines. “We disrespected him,” says a close relative of the team, “that's why today, we're all the happier for him when we know what he's eaten. “This match against Nantes, Paul Baysse therefore experienced it as a deliverance to the point of being particularly worried about being tested positive for Covid-19 before the meeting. It was his reward, his light at the end of the tunnel.
Paul Baysse was very moved before and especially after the match at the end of which he did not forget to bring his two jerseys back to his children. His central defense teammate Laurent Koscielny did not hesitate to pay tribute to him at the end of the meeting:
“It was difficult for him but he fought, was always respectful, the first in training, to make an effort even if he knew he was not going to play. He is rewarded and I think he is a good example for a lot of players. Always believe in your chances ”.
With the addition of a very high level match: 7 balls recovered (match record), 91% of successful passes including 31 forward (match record).
This Sunday (3 p.m.), he should again start in Angers (Jovanovic and Mexer are coming back from injuries and Pablo is not fit). “Paul (Baysse), I know him because we saw him spend at the time (2009-2010) with Laurent (Blanc) when he was 18 years old, remembers his new trainer, Jean-Louis Gasset, we followed in his career and I know his state of mind, I know the player, I know the man and I know I can trust him ”. The main interested party lives again and he does not hide it:
“We are coming back to things a little simpler, a little more old-fashioned if I dare say with values that correspond to me: you must not let go, give everything. We have a coach who wants to play ball, who feels things, who will try to get the most out of this group. We are all behind him to do something big this season ”.
The one who "has an incredible love for the club and also pays great attention to him to keep the best possible form" dixit a member of the staff is therefore ready to face the competition and finally play a real role this season at the Girondins. It is really not time to bury him ...
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As expected, the Bordeaux transfer window is fairly calm for the moment. Three weeks after his arrival, the new sports director Alain Roche continues to take stock of the situation, in particular by meeting certain players and their entourage. For example, a few days ago he told Serbian defender Vukasin Jovanovic (at the end of his contract in June 2021) that he was not pushed towards the exit but that there was no question at this stage of speaking no extension either. Now is the time for everyone to prove themselves and if things are to speed up, it will be from mid-September. Thomas Carrique, he will not have time to do them since he was loaned for a season this Thursday at Calahorra, a club in the Spanish third division.
Author of a very good first game against Nantes on its momentum last season, the situation of Toma Basic has not changed this week. But as Téléfoot reveals, the Girondins are closely monitoring the situation of Niçois Wylan Cyprien in the event of the departure of the young Croatian midfielder. But for the moment, there is absolutely no contact between the two clubs: "We are not even aware of this interest", we slip on the Côte d'Azur. On Samuel Kalu's side, the file seems to be on stand-by. The Nigerian striker particularly wants to see how things are going with Jean-Louis Gasset before thinking about a possible departure.
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