National: how the Red Star paid for Cheikh Ndoye

Arrived Tuesday at the Red Star, Cheikh Ndoye was in the front row in the stands of the Bauer stadium Friday evening to attend the derby against Créteil.

He appreciated the victory (1-0, goal from Damien Durand (80th) and the debauchery of energy from his new teammates. "I saw a spectacle and for confidence, it's good to chain a third victory in a row, ”he said after the match.

By enlisting this giant (1.92 m, 90 kg), the Audonien club has undoubtedly achieved a great deal even if it is not yet ready to play.

Ndoye, 34, has a long CV.

The Senegalese international midfielder (32 caps), who played a 2018 World Cup match (Japan-Senegal) in Russia, played 59 Ligue 1 games and around 30 in the Championship (37 appearances for 28 starts) , under the colors of Birmingham, an English club of the 2nd Division.

With Créteil, then in Ligue 2, the midfielder had scored 10 and 11 goals between 2013 and 2015. Above all, Ndoye was captain of the Angers SCO for two years after his rise to the top in 2015. It is therefore a sacred number that lands in National.

€ 5,000 salary plus € 1,000 per regular match

Without a club since his departure from Angers in the summer of 2019 he attacked the prudhommes for abusive breach of contract, he had touches in Ligue 2, but opted for the Red Star project after a big push from the Audonian president Patrice Haddad.

"It is first of all a great meeting and the start of a great human adventure", summarizes the boss-producer of Première Heure.

The current immediately passed with the Senegalese and his agent Salif Diao, champion of France with Monaco in 2000. “The project corresponds to my values ​​because I am a man of challenge, confides Ndoye.

It's a good challenge.

The president and the coach spoke to me, it went really well.

Now, compared to my experience, my experience, it's up to me to help the club find Ligue 2. ”

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Cheikh Ndoye: "If I had made a question of money, I would not be at the Red Star"

As the 34-year-old also tells us, he didn't make it all about the money.

“I am first there to play football again, to find the field and the competition,” he explains.

If I had made it all about the money, I wouldn't have come to the Red Star.

»According to our information, he will receive a salary of 5000 € monthly with a bonus of 1000 € per tenure.

For comparison, when he arrived in September 2018, the former French international midfielder trained at PSG, Clément Chantôme then aged 31, received a monthly salary of € 10,000 with a bonus of € 10,000 per month in case of maintenance.

Except that at the time, the Red Star was playing in Ligue 2 and had finished 19th in the championship and was relegated to the National after 8 wins, 12 draws and 18 defeats.