He was one of Chambly's priorities in the summer transfer window.
Six and a half months later, the Ligue 2 club, last in the standings one point from the first non-relegation, is still rubbing its hands for having offered Bradley Danger (22), on May 16, a contract of '' one year with an additional year in case of maintenance.
After two seasons at Avranches, in the National, the player trained in Le Havre is today indispensable within Bruno Luzi's team.
Facing Valenciennes (10th), this Saturday evening (7pm) in Beauvais, the 2015 U17 European champion will play his 14th match in… 14 days.
“Brad, a boy who has adapted very well,” emphasizes Bruno Luzi.
He's a bit like Maxence Derrien.
They are square players, soldiers, able to evolve in 2 or 3 positions, clean, rigorous.
It responds present and performs wherever you put it.
For the moment, it is a real satisfaction.
"
Starter 12 times
With the exception of the match against Ajaccio (0-0 on November 28), where he came into play in the 84th minute, he has always been the holder.
In central defense, first, but also as a right-back and for two games as a defensive midfielder.
With 1055 minutes of play, he is even the second most used player behind the immovable captain and defender Thibault Jaques, the only one to have played all of the first thirteen games.
"The results of the team are not as I expected, confides the native of Mont-Saint-Aignan (Seine-Maritime), but at the level of my individual performances I am happy with myself overall, I think. make a good start to the season.
Personally, I am proud.
"
The only Chambly rookie to have managed to win in Bruno Luzi's eleven so far, Kylian Mbappé's former partner for several years in the French youth team relishes.
"I work hard for this," he smiles.
I have confidence in myself, I know what I'm capable of.
I'm here to take as many minutes as possible. So far I'm satisfied, and I don't intend to stop there.
"
The mark of confidence shown by Chambly this summer ideally launched it.
"I quickly felt that the club was going to trust me," says Bradley Danger.
It was important.
I had to feel that.
If I don't feel that a club wants to trust me, it's sure to be complicated to sign… "
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These words resonate as far as Le Havre, and echo an enormous youthful disappointment.
If the senior club had made him sign his first professional contract in June 2018 before lending him immediately to Avranches (National), he had released him after a year.
The following two years, optional, suddenly lapsed.
The beautiful trajectory built, until then, with its training club suddenly transformed into a dead end.
“In Le Havre, I was one of the club's great hopes, the only one of my generation in the selection,” comments Bradley Danger.
I also trained very young with the pro group, from my 17 to 20 years old.
I did benches, but no match with the pro team.
Of course what happened, and especially how it was done, I didn't like it.
"
And no more to the supporters of the HAC.
In a video published on the internet, one of them pushes a big rant of 5 minutes against this departure and the propensity of the club not to keep the nuggets he has on hand after having chiseled them.
“I saw it, it's heartwarming because I know that I am appreciated by the supporters, confides the Camblysien.
They saw me grow up, arrive in the pro group, I have esteem for them and they have it for me.
I did not have more explanation than that from the club, even though we asked with my agent.
It's football, it's life, it also helped me to progress mentally and to be mentally strong.
It's my journey, it's like that, the page is turned, and I have no problem with my training club, on the contrary.
"
Came to football at the age of 4, within the Doudeville club, some 5 kilometers from the family home of Etalleville, "Le Dangereux, a nickname given by Harold Moukoudi, his former teammate in Le Havre still sees far away even if Chambly is today last in Ligue 2. “In view of my career and my performance, he confides, I was aiming for something higher, earlier.
Now it's a bit delayed, but my ambition is still to continue to progress and move up the ranks.
It is only a postponement, we will say.
"" He was blocked at Le Havre, slips Bruno Luzi.
There are boys who, late in the day, have a second chance, don't let it pass and impose themselves, that's good… ”