Monaco with Ricardo, Roma, Rangers … Julien Faubert’s itinerary before engaging with West Ham
Julien faubert returned to his departure from the Girondins de Bordeaux for West Ham, he who could have signed up for many clubs at that time.
“I am coming to the end of what I have experienced in Bordeaux, I have one of my mentors who is leaving, Ricardo, who is trying to get me to Monaco, but for Bordeaux it was out of the question. I have the opportunity to go to Roma. We travel there with my agent, we meet the coach, we prepare my contract. But Bordeaux want 9 million, and Roma have met 6 million. I have the Glasgow Rangers who show up with 10 million. I tell myself that Scotland is often a stepping stone to go to the Premier League, and that was my dream. We meet the emissaries from Glasgow, the contract begins to be prepared, and I have my agent who receives a phone call. In the middle of an exchange with Glasgow, he leaves, and from outside he sends me a text message saying ‘in 5 minutes, to the toilet’. I go, and he says to me ‘we have a Premier League club in London’. It was West Ham. For me it was the Big Four, and I didn’t know the history of West Ham yet. I told him that we were going there, that we did not hesitate. I had an agent who had a pair like that, and he comes back to the table, says that we have something to do absolutely now, that we have to go… We get in the car, there is a plane waiting for us, we return to Bordeaux and West Ham is waiting for us there to negotiate the contract. We arrive in Bordeaux, we sit at the table and my agent says directly ‘have the transfer arrangements been completed?’. Yes, they put 12M € on the table. My agent had prepared a paper with my contract, he naturally shows them with the salary, the years: the guy looks for two seconds and tells him it’s good. And laughing, in English, he says to me in English ‘you want five years?’. “Okay, five years.” And it was settled like that ”.
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