“Gueye will have to take care of his offensive contribution” – Interview

While recruiting the midfielder Pope Gueye (21) seems imminent, even if he shone on the L2 side with Le Havre last season, he remains relatively unknown to the general public. Benoit Donckele So took stock with Thomas Bonnavent at the microphone of Winamax in order to detail the qualities and the defects of the player.

According to him, the player is likely to encounter difficulties at the beginning: “It will be difficult for him to win, I think the march is still a little bit high. He remains an intelligent player with a large volume of play. His only flaw is his decision-making power in the 30s last few meters where there is too much waste. ” Asked about the comparison some people make with Pogba, he replied: “There are some similarities, but in terms of power, it is not at the level of Pogba. Not yet. I compare it more to Gueïda Fofana. Quite fine, clean, technical, short game, long game, all that mastery. “

Pope Gueye titular before the defense it will not be for immediately to believe his words: “On the basis of a 4-1-4-1 I don’t see him having the qualities necessary to be the only sentry in front of the defense, on the scale of the L1. He will have to make very very big efforts to win sport. “

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In terms of player mentality, Donckele ensures that Pope Gueye is a “good kid”, much appreciated in his locker room and his former coach Paul Le Guen, who also gave him the status of vice captain. He nevertheless considers that he will have to force himself to be less introverted: “He is someone who is fairly discreet, fairly posed, he is not a big mouth, he will have to come out a little more to make a place for himself in the locker room of OM because c ‘is important.”

We will have understood, the potential is there, but we must remember that Pope Gueye remains a young player who will discover the very high level of Ligue 1 with OM, which is far from trivial.