Arrived in August 2021 from Sporting Club de Braga, the player had to bring a touch of aggression to the Bordeaux environment. A transfer of 5 million euros, the most expensive since that of Rémi Oudin in January 2020. Was the player worth that price? It was in any case very different in Portugal as evidenced by Matthew Monteiro specialist in Lusitanian football on the website golaço.fr
He is not the same player as two seasons ago in Portugal. In Braga he was one of the players adored by the fans. He inherited the captaincy very early. He is a player who, as soon as he arrived, showed a certain leadership on the pitch but in addition to this leadership side, there was also the tactical side of a fairly versatile player who was able to play at different positions, whether in a midfield with two or three by being a slightly more attacking eight or even in an attack with two in front. So he’s a player who brought a lot of solutions to the different coaches he had in Portugal and who was a piece of the eleven type of his coaches – Matthieu Monteiro
An incredible difference for the same player
Leadership, captaincy, versatility, love of supporters. To wonder sometimes if Fransergio does not have a twin brother because nothing that the supporters of the Girondins de Bordeaux can see resembles this description. This is the opinion of Patrick Estampes, director of US Bouscat Football but also a supporter and subscriber of navy and white, listening to Matthieu Monteiro
No, that’s not possible. He’s been with us for a year and a half. So we can say that he adapted to Ligue 1, the language, the teammates, the pressure from the supporters. David Guion says it’s a masterpiece, maybe he’s the only one who knows, and it’s totally possible because we’re just fans and supporters, but on what’s rendered at the level of the team is incomprehensible, even the young people do better – Patrick Estampes
So can David Guion have elements that supporters and observers do not see, do not know? A locker room context, performances in training? It may also quite simply be that the transplant does not take place between the player, his family, and a club, a city, a region. So many possibilities as evidenced by the coach Pascal Plancque
It can happen that indeed a coach can have a different opinion from the supporters or the observers. I think David, he wants to go all the way with Fransergio because indeed he is a player who apparently showed great possibilities in Portugal. Maybe indeed, on a daily basis, in training, he shows things that he cannot reproduce on weekends during matches. Afterwards, it is true that now he has been in France for 16 months and that the time to adapt to the championship, to teammates, to the new environment, he is over. There are players who can flourish in one context and not at all in another. Perhaps Fransergio, he belongs to this category, that the Bordeaux context is not favorable to him. Maybe he doesn’t feel good in this club, in this environment or it’s his family that doesn’t adapt very well. It’s always a little tricky. Maybe he needs a click match that will unlock certain things. But it’s true that we expect a lot more from him – Pascal Plancque
Many hoped that the goal offered to him by Aliou Badji against Metz be this click. Besides, his very emotional reaction, the presence of his children on the lawn in August and the references he had made to his difficulties of integration at a press conference in February 2022 before the match against the Stade de Reims, could reveal a difficulty of integration for a player, a man, a family. And no one can blame anyone for that.