Frédéric Piquionne rejects Saint-Étienne shirt, whip marks on back

It’s a rule of thumb in professional football, at least in France. When a player cleverly compares himself to a slave under the totalitarian and dictating ways of his seniors, it’s high time to get him the hell out of your organization.

Enter Frédéric Piquionne, New Caledonia-born striker, still at AS Saint-Étienne as of today. Goalscorer times six, and goal creator times a whole lot, he’s been impressing arch-rivals and neighbours Lyon a good deal since the beginning of the season. To the point that Lyon’s staff have been chucking pen and paper into his face like a 10-year old girl who’s just seen some guy from American Idol on the street.

And with ASSE’s management crew pulling a Marseille-Ribéry trick on the five-time champions, Piquionne has perhaps put beyond doubt his urge to jump ship and galavant into Stade Gerland, where they probably could use a healthy striker these days.

Said Piquionne (translated from French): I’m being taken for a slave that hasn’t got the right to give his opinion. I want to go to a big club. Today, Lyon has shown interest. Who wouldn’t want to go to Lyon?

Expect the 6′2 wonder worker to leave the cotton fields of Geoffroy-Guichard soon to seek greener and modernly democratic pastures across the river alongside Juninho, Malouda and the rest.

Category: France Ligue 1, Lyon (OL), Player News, Saint-Étienne (ASSE), Team News, Transfers and Player Movement

Tags: AS Saint-Étienne, France Ligue 1, Frédéric Piquionne, Interview, Lyon, Lyon (OL), Olympique Lyonnais, Player News, Saint-Étienne (ASSE), Team News, Transfers and Player Movement

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