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The future looks dark for Hatem Ben Arfa. As AFP states, the French champion has initiated proceedings against his player: “Lille “undertook proceedings” against attacking midfielder Hatem Ben Arfa after his altercation in the locker room with a teammate and staff members last Saturday“the statement read.
At the same time, the Lille technician was present at a press conference and raised the subject: “We had an incident after Bordeaux, a player behaved inappropriately just after the match. It was difficult to understand and for me maybe even more so because I had a lot of affection for this player. The president has a rule, we don’t touch the club, the team or the coach. From my position as a coach, it is obvious and impossible to miss something that can alter the unity of the team, the group, the locker room” he lamented in remarks reported by RMC Sports.
He then continued: “From there, the club initiated an ongoing procedure. The president and the leaders intervened, the player was exempted from training this week and the club will communicate once the procedure is advanced. The legal department will handle this. Nobody and nothing is above LOSC but in view of the current procedure, I cannot express myself further or answer questions.“.
Finally, he concluded by indicating that he had never seen this in 34 years of football: “There can be problems in all trades, but when you are in a body where there can be twists, things that are not very appreciable or acceptable… It is not because you are in a twisted environment that one must be twisted. Everyone does what they want, puts the ethics they want. I have always invested myself since my coaching career to have a certain ethics. We do some things well, others less, we win matches or not, we play one way or another, that’s another thing, but ethics are important to me. I’ve been in football for 34 years and I’ve never seen this. I have no lesson to give but I know what I want, what I don’t want and I move forward like that“.
to summarize
LOSC has initiated proceedings against Hatem Ben Arfa. Jocelyn Gourvennec, meanwhile, spoke about this clash at a press conference. And the Lille technician was very saddened, saying he had never seen this in 34 years.