Favre assures: “Thuram jr must mature for goals and assists. Todibo? I was impressed by his speed”

He trained Khéphren Thuram And Jean-Clair Todibo at Nice. The first one already purchased by Juve and the second big topic of discussion with the French club. In the interview given to the notebooks of Allsportsthe technician Lucien Favre he explained the strengths and peculiar characteristics of these two players, starting from Lilian Thuram’s second-born.

“A midfielder with great potential and an imposing physical structure, over 1.90. A boy you can count on and who still has a lot of room for improvement: for example, to be picky, he scores few goals and gives few assists. In short, even though he is a good player he must fully complete his maturation process. And at a big club like Juventus, where he will find a certain Douglas Luiz in the middle of the field, he will be able to do so. Working hard under the orders of the excellent Thiago Motta”, said the former Borussia Dortmund coach.

While on Todibo: “He is also a very gifted central defender from a physical point of view. I was impressed by his speed. But he needs to be more focused. And the aerial game is not even his specialty… He was a great promise at Toulouse, Barça took him but he played very little, then they sent him to Schalke 04 and there too he played very little, then to Benfica where he never even played while in Nice he finally returned to express himself at a more than good level. Something is missing for us to say that he is a complete footballer. However, he can still make a leap in quality even though he is already 24 years old, over one more than Thuram”.