He arrived at the Girondins de Bordeaux through the front doors of the Matmut Atlantique with an extraordinary presentation for a club player in August 2019, he left in virtual anonymity. This Monday, Laurent Koscielny officially left the Château du Haillan. A sad end for the former captain of the Navy and White. His departure can be summed up in a lost sentence in a press release in which the Girondins de Bordeaux announced the appointment of his replacement, Paul Baysse, as the club’s ambassador. And a little light for a player of his pedigree.
But in the end not so surprising given its management for several months. Laurent Koscielny had been removed from the professional workforce overnight last January for economic reasons. Since the former French international (51 caps) had been shelved. The two parties have therefore finally reached an amicable agreement to separate. In three seasons at the Girondins, the defender wore the Bordeaux jersey 65 times without ever succeeding in scoring.
So what will become of it? For now, we don’t know. Laurent Koscielny had returned to France in 2019 to live a last adventure and he had notably chosen Bordeaux to be closer to his family settled in Corrèze. Will he definitely hang up his cleats as he had hinted or take up one last challenge given this difficult end with the Girondins de Bordeaux? Laurent Koscielny has not yet made his decision according to some of his relatives.