“Auxerre is clearly not a Ligue 2 club, it is an emblematic, historic Ligue 1 club, so it is finding its place again”reacts Djibril Cisse, who began his career at AJ Auxerre under the leadership of Guy Roux, while AJA is return to Ligue 1 Sunday evening by beating Saint-Étienne.
About to catch a plane in Guyana, the former international followed the match against Saint-Étienne on his phone at the airport. “It’s cool, it was a good time”, he said. “It was not easy to eliminate Saint-Étienne. It’s still a mini-feat, analyzes the man who was twice voted top scorer in Ligue 1 with AJA. He was impressed with the quality of play : “They were solid, they showed a lot of maturity, at one point we even wondered who was in Ligue 1 and who was in Ligue 2”.
“Congratulations, I’m super happy, for the public and for the players especially. It’s still them who did the job”greets Djibril Cissé. “For Guy Roux too, because he is someone important in the history of the club”.
Complicated to stay next year? The answer of Djibril Cissé is categorical : “No, because at AJA we are used to being in Ligue 1. We have to make the right recruitments”, concludes the one who was the second best scorer in the history of the club.