2024-03-05 05:00:00
PORTRAIT – Arriving on tiptoe in Paris, after only six good months in Lyon, the 21-year-old winger established himself under the orders of Luis Enrique.
Nonchalant for some, clumsy or too thin for others… Bradley Barcola took time before emerging from the shadows in Lyon. Here he is now in full light in Paris, six months after his transfer, on August 31, 2023. Amount of the transaction? €50 million, bonus included. A hell of a sum for a 21-year-old player who only had 47 professional matches under his belt. Especially since he had little opportunity to show his qualities before the 2022 World Cup. Since then, everything has happened quickly.
Well surrounded at OL, with his big brother Malcolm, an attentive father and a mother always there, he worked in silence. « He was not one of the best of his generation because he had this form of nonchalance, remembers ex-Lyonnais Sidney Govou, who knew him at 14. He is tall, slender, we have the impression that he does everything in a nonchalant manner, but Christian Bassila (his coach in U15) always believed in him, he was taunting him a little precisely to make him tougher, ‘he works…
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