You might remember a time when Manchester United’s Aliou Traoré was looking for first-team experience after coming through the ranks at Carrington.
He’d been retrained from a box to box midfielder to play on the wing, and while he appreciated the experience that brought, he felt it was time to get some minutes under his belt at a higher level than U23 football.
A loan move to Caen in Ligue 2 was organised after the player ‘was convinced by their manager’s project’, according to L’Equipe.
However, ‘a few days before’, the former Paris Saint-Germain youngster was ‘solicited’ by Marseille, one of the biggest clubs in France, through their new director of football, Pablo Longoria.
The club chief ‘considers Traoré one of the bigger talents of his generation in the role’, but ‘after reflecting’, the player, who had a chat with some other players of his age group, decided to go to Caen as he was ‘worried about getting an important amount of game time’.
Thus, he rejected the offer from the Marseille director of football, and left Manchester United for the Calvados based club.
