Amine Gouiri is OGC Nice's top scorer in Ligue 1 (8 goals).
Sign that after a premature departure from OL, the French striker confirms the hopes that many placed in him.
Gouiri has a lot of room for improvement, but he is still far from international level A, according to Christophe Galtier.
If it was necessary to invent a bingo of the typical course of young footballers, Amine Gouiri would tick all the boxes. Polite and hardworking boy, bingo. Well surrounded, bingo. Upgraded, bingo. Play in Blue for young people, bingo (58 selections from U16 to Espoirs, all the same). The cute story that goes well in a portrait of
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- Danone Cup 2012 top scorer - bingo. The incredible Armand Garrido, one of Gouiri's trainers in Lyon, may say that a "boy is never perfect", admit all the same that we are close to flawlessness.
There is indeed this knee injury in 2018 or this premature departure from OL to bring a little nuance to a picture as smooth as the abs of CR7, but nothing that we can really blame this boy who makes the unanimity wherever he goes, Rudi Garcia being the exception to the rule. The latter had justified the departure of the young man for Nice in the summer of 2020 by an overflow in an attack where the current top scorer in Nice (8 goals in 15 L1 games) had no say in the matter. , an argument that has aged badly in addition to not having convinced many in the microcosm of Lyon, starting with supporters attached (sometimes excessively) to everything that comes out of the training center. Let us add that their idol Juninho did not do much to hold him back. Garrido:
“If we had to regret and blame OL on all the players who left before breaking into a pro, that wouldn't hurt. It is true that when they succeed in Lyon, there is a little chord side. But today, the players do not have time to show that they are already solicited. Before, players like Tolisso, Lacazette, Giuly, Kanouté had 100 games behind them. Today, the young people leave with an hour in pro. "
However, listening to the entourage, the attacker's plan resembled that of his illustrious predecessors more than the second scenario.
“I don't know if we can speak of resentment towards OL, but frustration, yes,” says Abdel Belarbi, who accompanied Gouiri during his years in Lyon.
He was trained at the club.
In his speeches, he always said: "I was trained in Lyon, I want to play in Lyon, I want to shine in Lyon".
For him, there was no question of leaving the club without having played pro and having shown what he is showing today in Nice.
"
In search of lost playing time
But no institution, no dream can replace playing time, especially not for a young person in full progress. Belarbi, always: “Amine's pleasure has always been to play. Even though he's a boy who was outclassed all the time, if he had to go down with his category to play, he did. "And as long as we have to do, if we have to go to the Gym to break through ... A career choice that we do not complain about on the side of Alexy Bosetti, former Nice player and ultra emeritus," very happy that Gouiri is in Nice ", Nor that of Kasper Dolberg, attacking companion who delights" to play with a good player like that, who has taken further steps in recent months. "
The beginnings in the Côte d'Azur are indeed promising: a good twenty pawns, some of them very beautiful - we recommend his latest masterpiece against Clermont - and eleven assists with the Aiglons in a season and a half, the while being lugged around the front, sometimes on the left, sometimes in the center.
The lot of versatile players.
Christophe Galtier:
“He's an axis player who wasn't one last year, which didn't stop him from scoring 16 or 17 goals in a completely different system.
I think Amine, who is a talented young player, can both play under a striker, next to a striker, but also on the side, especially on the left side.
"
In summary, and to quote Armand Garrido “Gouiri is a very powerful scorer, who goes very quickly, has very fast sequences and knows how to be forgotten to appear at the right time.
But he is also a smuggler.
You're going to tell me Benzema, cool thing.
No, it's Amine Gouiri, he has Benzema-style gestures, he has Anthony Martial-style attitudes, a little mix.
"
Even if it means comparing, let's be playful. What trajectory of a former striker from Lyon could the career of the Niçois look like?
Frederic Kanouté.
First part of his linear career, while progressing, until the explosion in a Sevilla-style club, capable of competing in the Europa League, but no more.
Toto Martial.
Nice qualified in C1 after his 2nd place in 2021-2022, Gouiri climbs to the top of the hype on the track to the stars.
The talent is too obvious to escape a big club which will bring it in its suitcase at the end of the year.
Karim Benzema.
Same, with the hit + living legend supplement in a top-notch club.
Ludovic Giuly.
Takes the time to progress in the South-East until trying his luck in the new world, at maturity, at 25 years old.
Still very far from the level of the Blues
In a world where one of these scenarios must occur, the last is the one that most closely matches Bosetti's idea of Amine Gouiri's passage to the Riviera. “For the moment, let him grow up with Nice. There is something to do because the club is undergoing major changes with the Ineos project, and Gouiri is going to be a part of this project. If Nice plays the Champions League regularly, he can stay two or three years, and why not go to a European top club which is used to the last Champions League squares. "
There is in any case a consensus around the attacker, both on the infinity of his potential and on the long road he still has to travel to achieve his objectives, in particular the passage in the France A team. the armband among the hopes and to find a place in the middle of Mbappé, Benzema and Griezmann, there are one or two galaxies that Christophe Galtier does not quite want to cross.
“He is still far from the level.
We see who are the players in his position in the France team.
He still has a long way to go.
On the other hand, he puts all his chances on his side since he works a lot, he is very invested before, during and after training.
He has ambition, that's good.
He has personality, that's very good.
Let him continue like this.
"" He still has the chance to evolve in U21, said Bosetti.
It is better for him to be captain and holder in hopes than on the bench in A. “Blues or not, there would be a masochistic nostalgia to prefer the reverse.
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