“If it hurts you that much, you stay”: Dugarry crushes Fonseca and his “crocodile tears” after his departure from OL

Paulo Fonseca had almost everything of a coach forced to leave his club reluctantly. Except for one detail... It was he who chose to leave. And Christophe Dugarry cannot digest that. As the Portuguese prepares to leave Olympique Lyonnais to join Sporting Portugal, where he must succeed Rui Borges, the 1998 world champion did not take gloves on Monday in Rothen ignites on RMC. The technician's tears after the victory against Angers (2-0)? Very little for him. “I find it terrible for football in general. It really disgusts me,” he said.

“Now it becomes the coaches”

For the former Blues striker, it is difficult to accept that a coach can leave his post after only nine days of the championship. “It has been said for a long time that players are mercenaries and that they only think about money. Now it becomes the coaches. The team was built for you. Are you almost eight months away? Can't finish the season? I don’t understand the idea.”

Because beyond the choice of Fonseca, it is also the very conception of the coaching profession which challenges the consultant. “You have young people who need you to achieve,” he insists, before continuing: “A coach is a leader, a guru, a prophet, someone important in a career, in a club. Me, I'm shocked. It will definitely take some getting used to. It’s terrible for football and terrible for Lyon supporters.”

“His crocodile tears, I absolutely don’t believe it”

But what visibly annoyed Dugarry the most were the Portuguese’s farewells. Sunday, after the victory against Angers, Fonseca did not hold back his tears, while his captain Corentin Tolisso came to celebrate his goal in his arms. “This is not correct from Fonseca. I find it shocking, it totally bothers me. He could have stayed. Her crocodile tears, I absolutely don't believe it. Because if it hurts you that much, you stay. Nobody pushed you out.”

And Dugarry has not forgotten the six months of suspension of the Portuguese technician, during which OL continued to trust him. “The club continued to support you when you were in the stands, it went well, everyone rolled up their sleeves,” he recalls. Before concluding, still as angry as ever: “You showed that you wanted to invest and all that is fake. Everything is fake, really, and this football is becoming completely fake."