Sven Botman reacts to surfaced photo with Olympique Lyon shirt

Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 2:22 PM• Mart Oude Nijeweeme • Last update: 14:32

Sven Botman has had a rough start to the season with Lille OSC. The reigning champions currently have to settle for eighth place in Ligue 1 and have already lost thirteen points. Nevertheless, Botman is undisputed and plays the full ninety minutes almost every week. Last summer, however, he gave the fans of Lille a bit of a scare when he was seen in the shirt of Olympique Lyon in a holiday photo. He posted the photo himself on Instagram.

Despite the difficult start to the season, Botman is not worried for the time being. “Not much is going on yet,” the mandekker from the Jong Oranje camp tells the NOS. “We have had a bit of a rough start to the season. We have a different coach, players have come in and players have left. At the moment the quality is less than what we ended with last season. But that is logical I think. Good players eventually leave and a different trainer asks for different things.

Botman was in the interest of both Wolverhampton Wanderers and Sevilla last summer, but decided to stay in France in consultation with the club. “There was certainly the case, I can’t lie about that,” said the center defender. “In the end I had a conversation with Lille and decided to further develop myself there. The club wanted that, but I didn’t think it was bad either. idea. It’s good for me to have this experience. I play a lot, also in the Champions League, that was important for me.”

There is therefore no question of any transfer. Not even after he posed on Instagram from his holiday address in a Lyon shirt last summer. “That was just the Memphis shirt, I had it in my suitcase,” Botman explains his choice of clothing. “We exchanged that after the game. Yes, why not? It was summer, nice on the beach. Nowadays everything is made bigger, but it was just a Depay shirt. Why not put it on? You don’t have to do anything about that. Search.”



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