Over the weekend, L’Équipe reported that Kasper Schmeichel (35) was considering a January departure from OGC Nice, adding that the Danish goalkeeper had displayed an unprofessional attitude since arriving at the Allianz Riviera this summer. Those reports have now been denied by the club’s president Jean-Pierre Rivère.
Schmeichel, who is in competition with Marcin Bulka at Les Aiglons, has experienced a less-than-ideal start to life in Ligue 1 since his summer arrival from Leicester City. However, prior to the club’s match against Troyes over the weekend, president Rivère sought to deny the reports of misbehavior and discontent.
“I saw this article when I arrived at the stadium. I hadn’t seen it. Honestly, we are far from reality. He is not someone who has much to prove. Sometimes it takes time to adapt, he was at Leicester for 10 years. It’s another world, another environment. We have team rules, Kasper plays by those rules,” said Rivère.
“He’s not a player who is going to change things at all. I don’t know why people are talking about him leaving at the end of the season. He’s a very good keeper, we have two very good keepers. It’s Lucien Favre who chooses who plays. We don’t interfere in the choices.”
“I was shocked when I saw [the L’Équipe] article earlier. I don’t understand how someone can say all these things about a player. We are here to support him, he is part of the squad and I am convinced that he will bring everything he can to the team,” he concluded.
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