Luyindula loan confirmed
Marseille forward Peguy Luyindula has completed his loan move to Auxerre.
Peguy Luyindula has completed his loan move to Auxerre after finally finding an agreement with Marseille for his departure.The move was held up as the player and l'OM differed over their hopes for a selling option after the initial loan, and the issue has been resolved with no such option now in place for Auxerre.
The 26-year-old will work under Jacques Santini next season and has expressed his relief at moving from Stade Velodrome after becoming 'fed up' with life at l'OM.
"I am happy to go to a place where everyone really wants me," Luyindula told L'Equipe.
"At Auxerre it will be very calm around me, it will be a change.
"Auxerre is the perfect club to find again my trust and my true game, it is not a club where people question everything after one match. Indeed, I was fed up. Fed up to face contradictions all the time.
"One day they wanted me, the next they didn't want me any more. It has become too harsh to stand now.
"However I have too many friends in football and away from football that are experiencing big trouble, so I could not crack up."
With no option in place Auxerre will not be guaranteed of retaining the French international's services, although Luyindula has already made clear his intention not to return to l'OM after falling out with sporting director Jose Anigo.
"l'OM chairman Pape Diouf does his best to find the best solution for me and this club, anyway I would not go anywhere," Luyindula continued.
"I never asked to leave, they pushed me away.
"Jose Anigo can believe I am the worst footballer in the world, however I have something against him as he has not been honest.
"If I leave that means there was a problem, so the basic idea is not to come back."
Luyindula becomes the second player to arrive at Stade Abbe-Deschamps over the summer after the capture of Thomas Kahlenberg, although Auxerre are still keen to bring in more reinforcements.
The Ligue 1 side are still looking for another striker, watching both Fulham's Steve Marlet and Paris Saint Germain's Fabrice Pancrate, although chairman Gerard Bourguoin denied they were in the market for a stopper despite injuries to Younes Kaboul and Bacary Sagna.
"Jacques Santini asked for three players, here we have two," said Bourguoin.
"He wanted a forward with a profile like Steve Marlet or [Lyon's] Pierre-Alain Frau, with Peguy Luyindula he has rather a player with a profile like Bonaventure Kalou.
"At first sight we don't need a defender, but of course we must not suffer a new trouble in defence."
