Monaco: bitter, Sidib empties his bag
Left AS Monaco free at the end of his contract, the right side Djibril Sidib has had a bad experience of his last 6 frustrating months on the Rock. The Habs believe they have been punished for their refusal to extend.
Sidib would have preferred to leave ASM on a better note.
Love stories usually end badly and that between Djibril Sidib and AS Monaco is no exception.
Arrived in 2016 from Lille and manager of the French champion team in 2017 and semi-finalist of the Champions League the same year, the 29-year-old right-back will leave ASM free at the end of his contract.
Sidib punished for his choice?
This departure seemed inevitable for several months, and the French international explained his decision not to continue in an interview granted this Friday to L’Equipe. It’s the feeling, I haven’t heard any arguments that reassured me, not in relation to playing time but the future. The contract, in terms of duration and salary, was also not up to what I deserve in my opinion, without being too greedyan estimate of the 2018 world champion.
Doubled by Vanderson and Ruben Aguilar, the Habs only played 8 games in the second half of the season (against 18 between August and December) and the end of the adventure left him with a bitter taste. Especially since this sudden downgrading is, according to him, not the result of sporting choices. My refusal to extend to pick up the sequel. Against Strasbourg (0-1, March 13), I am neither bad nor exceptional, and I leave the break. I asked the coach (Philippe Clément) for the reason, who could not give me a concrete argument. He told me that what I was doing was good in the physical, tactical and technical workshops. So I don’t see any reason other than the extensiona regret the native of Troyes, before displaying his disappointment.
D. Sidib – the way I had to
If the club decides to bet on youth, I can hear it, but the way has to me, compared to everything I have donea lch Sidib. I was playing with Kovac (limog during the holidays), Clément immediately showed his confidence in me and when my extension was impossible, everything disappeared. I’m due by the end but Falcao didn’t have a flamboyant goodbye here, neither did Jovetic. There is very little recognition in the middle. A legitimate frustration, even if the position of the ASM is also understandable insofar as Sidib no longer represented the future and that the team was running at full speed without him with a series of nine consecutive victories and a draw which allowed him to finish on the 3rd step of the podium in Ligue 1.
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