Isn't the problem of the Girondins to be a team of "good guys"?

Laurent Koscielny, captain of the Girondins de Bordeaux.

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• The Girondins de Bordeaux receive Montpellier on Saturday (5 p.m.) on the 10th day of Ligue 1.

• After the rout in Monaco (4-0), Gasset expects a reaction from his players who do not show much character for the moment.

• The absence of real leaders and the context around the club does not help the players to sublimate themselves.

"It was a little more tense this week," admits a close friend of the first team.

Hallelujah!

It therefore seems that there is still "a little pride and self-esteem" among the players of the Girondins as claimed by their captain Laurent Koscielny after the "collective shipwreck" in Monaco (4-0).

To the point of hoping for a strong reaction from them against Montpellier at Matmut Atlantique this Saturday (5 p.m.)?

No one will put their hand in it.

This team was too disappointing to just reach out.

Above all, the evil is deep and more “global” as emphasized by Jean-Louis Gasset, who often points to the lack of character of his team: “As soon as there is a small grain of sand, we give up.

There is no heart!

"" Sport requires effort, not just technical or physical quality.

You have to show character.

The difference is in the state of mind and mentality.

We must respect Bordeaux, which is a historic club, ”adds Laurent Koscielny.

So isn't the Girondins' problem precisely to be a team of "nice boys"?

"We live too well together"

“That's exactly it, answers a member of the staff, this question sums up the situation well.

In this team, there are lots of small groups and everyone lives very well on their own.

We have nice boys and everyone is very polite.

“These last two years, it was rather a good thing because between the changes of owners, management, coaches… This group could have imploded more than once.

But, it is "healthy" as every member of it likes to recall.

The problem is that yesterday's strength has today become one of the weaknesses of this team.

And it is the experienced Laurent Koscielny who says it:

The problem with this group, which is made up of only good guys, is that we live too well together.

But sometimes you have to raise your voice and tell yourself the right things in life.

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Maybe also put on some tampons like in the good days.

A player in the workforce regrets, for example, “that in training it is always calm, there is never any spat or argument.

It's missing !

It's way too calm for me!

One statistic can illustrate this: the Girondins are the only Ligue 1 team not to have taken a red card last season.

Where are the leaders?

This lack of character is also illustrated by the absence of real leaders for some time.

“There is no leader in this team.

We are very disappointed by that.

Being a leader isn't just yelling for 30 seconds every now and then in front of the media, it's every day!

The only one who moans all the time, who opens his mouth, who scolds everyone, is Paul Baysse but he is not the holder, ”confides an officer to

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In his time, Paulo Sousa appointed four team captains: Benoit Costil, Laurent Koscielny, Nicolas De Préville and Jimmy Briand.

But between a Costil worn out by months of crises for three years, a De Préville more at the level on the ground this season and at the end of the contract and a Briand who does not play any more but pieces of matches, Koscielny finds himself very alone.

And yet the captain of the Girondins is above all a leader by example.

He is not vocal or very demonstrative in nature.

He started to raise his voice only this week because there was a fire in the house.

We are far from Pavon, Saveljic, Jurietti or even Planus, Fernando, Wendel ...

Players in the dark

If Jean-Louis Gasset regrets "the lack of communication on the ground" and Laurent Koscielny "the comfort in which are certain", the players do not evolve either in a very positive context.

“It is not easy for them because we do not even know what the club wants, recognizes the former striker of the Girondins Lilian Laslandes, it is not clear.

Are we playing Europe?

Shall we play 10th place?

Are we under reconstruction?

The players don't even know that, there is no specific objective, this vague situation does not help them ”.

The Bordeaux coach, he is not going four ways:

When I say Bordeaux is bad, I am not talking about the players.

I'm talking about the club and myself included.

It is this atmosphere that leads!

We live in falsehood and indifference.

There is a kind of disenchantment.

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To change that and find some colors, Jean-Louis Gasset would like to "break his group" by changing many players "to oxygenate it".

But in the meantime, there is a season to go and these same players will have to show a little more character to get by because as a member of the staff sums it up today, “this team has become like the city of Bordeaux , that is to say very smooth!

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