Hatem Ben Arfa probably played his ninth and last game with Losc on Saturday against Bordeaux (0-0). This Friday, as a prelude to the press conference before the meeting in Angers, Sunday in Ligue 1, Jocelyn Gourvennec took the floor. Without ever quoting Ben Arfa, the northern coach indicated that “the club has initiated proceedings” against “a player” guilty of “inappropriate behavior” after the reception of the Girondins.
According to Telefoot, the 35-year-old former international striker had an altercation in the locker room with his teammate Tiago Djalo, before attacking assistant coach Jorge Maciel and then Gourvennec. “It was difficult to understand and for me maybe even more because I had a lot of affection for this player, really, dropped the technician. President [Olivier Létang] has one rule: don’t touch the club, don’t touch the team and don’t touch the coach. It is impossible to miss something that can alter the unity of the team, the group, the locker room. »
The Ben Arfa case in the hands of the legal department
Gourvennec did not wish to say more, except to specify that “the player was exempted from training this week”. “The club will communicate once the procedure is advanced. The legal department will handle this. »
Free since leaving Bordeaux last summer, Ben Arfa signed for Lille at the end of January. The end of the career of this flagship player of the 1987 generation (Benzema, Nasri, Ménez) continues to be very chaotic.