"A glaring lack of professionalism" at the Girondins, admits Guilavogui

The Girondins de Bordeaux midfielder and captain has had very harsh words for his side as the club prepare to drop to Ligue 2 at the end of the season

As captain, Josuha Guilavogui came to take stock of the Girondins de Bordeaux season, soon to be relegated to Ligue 2.
He says he is "ashamed" and today points to the "screaming" lack of professionalism of some of his teammates.
For now, he doesn't rule out staying at the club even at the lower echelon.

It will therefore have been necessary to wait for the last day of Ligue 1 and especially the very probable relegation of the club to Ligue 2 to see a coach and his captain finally release the "sulfator" at the Girondins de Bordeaux to put words on the catastrophic sporting results of the team and the no less scandalous behavior of certain players.

If it surely comes too late to try to salvage something from this season, it at least has the merit of being said.

This Thursday, David Guion then Josuha Guilavogui did not mince words.

It was clearly time for them to settle their accounts.

As since his arrival in Bordeaux this winter, the midfielder came to assume in front of the press.

A Josuha Guilavogui touched but not completely defeated which does not exclude the idea of staying at the club in Ligue 2.

How are you approaching this last game?

We have to try to leave one last good image.

You can't go there in vacation mode and get murdered again.

This is not possible even if the relegation is almost recorded.

For me, this is my biggest sporting failure.

I feel responsible for this descent, it is something very difficult to live with.

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Are you ashamed?

Sure !

I can tell you that I don't go into town and walk around because I'm captain of this team and I have my share of responsibility.

I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed.

Afterwards I tell myself that I gave it my all, that I stayed true to myself and that I worked.

Now you have to get up.

What are the explanations of this relegation for you?

I think there are many.

I think we had the matches to save ourselves, we led 13 times so we are primarily responsible for this descent.

We, the players, we didn't know how to do the job.

I had read the interview with Arteta (the coach of Arsenal) who said that before playing football, you have to run and fight.

I think most of the time we haven't done enough.

What do you think of the extra-sporty attitude of some of your teammates?

It's not necessarily for me to talk about.

It will be up to them!

Me, I prefer to talk about it between four eyes.

Me, I put myself in commando mode where it was necessary to be intransigent on the extra-sports.

We couldn't afford any gaps because on the pitch, it was already hard enough.

Apparently some people didn't understand that.

Me, I'm ashamed.

Is there a lack of professionalism in this club?

At the level of the players, yes there was a lack of professionalism.

Afterwards for the rest of the club, you have to ask the questions to the people concerned.

But yes, I must admit, there was a blatant lack of professionalism among the players.

As captain, did you try to put a framework back?

I think you have already had all the information on this subject.

We tried to find solutions and to be radical.

I am not someone who hides, who flees his responsibilities even if it is not easy to be in front of you.

But hey, it's my role to assume, to go to the front.

Could you stay at the Girondins in Ligue 2?

Frankly, I don't think that's the priority.

I don't want to project myself too much after when you have a feeling of shame, you have to quickly correct it and find the right challenge for it.

Maybe staying here to erase that feeling is a solution.

But before thinking about my little person, unfortunately there are employees who will lose their jobs so it's not the priority even if I don't exclude the possibility of staying.

Do you think the club is able to come back next season?

You're going to have to work extremely hard for that.

I admit that if we go down with the flower in the gun, that won't be enough.

There are reasons for hope, there are very good young people in Bordeaux and we will have to trust them.

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Girondins de Bordeaux: The old "would never have imagined seeing" the club go down to Ligue 2