While his playing time has declined at the end of the season and he has the feeling of accomplished duty, the third line of Bordeaux-Bègles Mahamadou Diaby announced his intention to leave the winner of the Champions Cup and vice-champion of France this summer.
Between Mahamadou Diaby and Bordeaux-Bègles, the story is coming to an end. Arrived in Gironde in the summer of 2017 after wearing the colors of Oyonnax and Grenoble, the 34-year-old was confided in the columns of the magazine for a long time Olympic Midi To confirm its intention to leave the club which won the Champions Cup this season before failing extension against Toulouse during the Top 14 final.
A decision that the native of Bagnolet does not justify in a time of declining playing, he who has not been aligned by Yannick Bru since success against Northampton on the lawn of the Principality Stadium of Cardiff on May 24. “” Just because I’m unhappy not to have played the final stages that I want to leave the club, I had made the decision beforehe says during this interview. The fact that I share my president with my dissatisfaction and my misunderstanding for not having played the final phase of Top 14 is another subject. »»
Diaby: “If an opportunity comes, I will seize it”
Indeed, Mahamadou Diaby assures that he wanted to “ask (his) president to (the) liberate (his) last year of the contract, that of next year”. What he explains by “the feeling, after eight years at the UBB, of having done the ‘job'”. “I have the feeling of duty accomplished with this first star brought back to the club,” he adds before explaining that the choices of technical supervision concerning him were able to challenge him concerning his future at the UBB. “I want to finish in a good way, to be a player who can bring to the team,” said the third-line. I feel that we no longer need me too much here so I would like to find a project where I can be useful and not in pre-retirement, to vegetate in the club. “”
The player with 177 games with Bordeaux-Bègles assures that there is “no contact” with other training courses but says “open to opportunities” if they arise. “I am in great shape and I still have a lot of energy,” he says to conclude. If an opportunity comes, I will seize it.
Today, it is no longer the desire to put an end to my adventure with the UBB and to go on a good note. “”
