Aliou Cissé, we learned yesterday, often repeats to his players: “ The more of a major club you are, the faster you will mature. This is one of the incentives of the Senegalese diaspora in England: from the current selection, there are ten. In 2002, when the Teranga Lions defeated defending champions France and reached the quarter-finals, nobody had crossed the English Channel; 20 out of 23 have worn the jersey of a French team. Upon his return from Asia, defender and captain Aliou Cissé left Montpellier, his fourth French club, for Birmingham City; later, El-Hadji Diouf and Salif Diao were recruited from Liverpool. ” Today againnotes Régis Bogaert of Lille, Cissé’s deputy for eleven years, whoever plays in France dreams of going to England »
“The dream of the Premier League”
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They don’t shy away from Ligue 1 – 18 of the 26 in Qatar have gone there – but they see it as a stepping stone for Britain. Past examples [Sadio Mané à Liverpool] is present [Kalidou Koulibaly et Edouard Mendy à Chelsea, Cheikhou Kouyaté à Nottingham Forest] they are incentives. ” The Premier League is super attractive, admits Rennes goalkeeper Alfred Gomis. TEveryone dreams of progressing to this level. “If the total number of residents in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 remains high (ten), it has in any case been halved. So, rather fr…
