- Oct 17, 2008
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I wouldn’t normally do this (quote myself), and I appreciate it adds no extra “credibility” - but I’ve just had an identical story told to me by somebody else attached to the club. No question.I like to think I have some credibility in the bank here - not a lot - but some. I can share a little on the training ground incident. This is from a club source, who I obviously can’t name, so you can either believe me or not.
Trossard was taking the piss in the training immediately after coming back from the WC. He was late and grumpy, deliberately losing sprints, doing stupid tricks and pretending to fall over during scrimmage sessions - just stupid stuff like that. Despite being told repeatedly by several coaches to focus and train professionally, he basically refused to communicate with the coaches in question. RDZ was watching all this and had a word with a “senior player” (my common sense guess would be Lallana or Dunk, but that is a guess as I say). He basically had a quiet word, Trossard told him to do one, which led to a little pushy-shovey. Trossard then pulled up minutes later with a “calf problem” and went to the treatment room.
As I understand it, this was all one incident. He then basically just left.
That was the first incident.
He was told he needed to come back for training/treatment the next day and didn’t want to until he got an apology from the senior player. He turned up late, didn’t get his apology, RDZ basically told him to man up and stop acting unprofessionally and he just outright left.
RDZ told him to report to the U23s for training and he didn’t.
Can also confirm he has now left the country without permission and the club have no idea where he is, although he appears to have gone to his home in Belgium.
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