Jeremy Menez is a French striker who can also play as a winger, from both flanks. He spent most of his career in France. But for several years he also played in the Italian Serie A. Jeremy Menez played for the French team, but not for too long.
Carier start
Jeremy Menez was born on May 7, 1987 in France. At the age of seven, he ended up at the tiny Vitri club’s football academy. A year later, he moved to the capital's “Paris”, where he spent five whole years. In 2000, he had to enter the football academy of another French club - “Brittany”, but there he did not stay long. A year later, a fourteen-year-old guy was spotted at Sochaux, where he moved to finish his football training.
In 2005, when he was 18 years old, Menez received a professional contract with the team. But by that time, he had been a regular base player in an adult club for a whole year. He spent 32 matches, having driven four goals into the opponent’s goal. And in the next season did not slow down - for the 31 games he scored three more goals. Such talent did not go unnoticed. Already in the summer of 2006, 19-year-old Jeremy Menez was bought by representatives of the Monaco team for three and a half million euros.
Going to Monaco
Jeremy Menez is a footballer who impressed with his abilities in attack, so in Monaco he had high hopes. In the two years he spent there, the guy entered the field 62 times, scoring 14 goals. However, at that time, the Monegasques were not the leading force in the French championship. Therefore, many contenders for the talented young attack wagon appeared. The race for Menez was won by the Italian Roma, who paid 12 million euros for it.
Relocation to Italy
In a new place, the Frenchman developed very well. He did not lose shape, continuing to perform at a fairly high level. In each of the three seasons, the man consistently scored four goals, while distributing a large number of assists. In total, Jeremy played 112 matches for the Roman club. This is the largest number of matches for one team in his career. But in 2011 he became interested in the strongest club from his native France - PSG. And Roma agreed to sell it for eight million euros. So Jeremy returned to his homeland. But, unfortunately, he made a mistake, since he could not play in the Paris club.
The game for PSG
In the first two seasons, Menez demonstrated a brilliant game. In 84 matches, he scored 17 goals. In addition, the football player assisted forwards from both flanks and was a regular base player. But in 2013, everything changed. Jeremy was left without playing practice and for the whole year barely played 26 matches, in which he scored only two goals. Such a situation, of course, Menez did not suit. Therefore, he did not renew the contract with the Paris club. Instead, he decided to return to Italy, where Milan was waiting for him.
A new beginning
But what could Jeremy Menez achieve in the new club? “Milan” at that time was far from in the best position, one might even say in a crisis. And the Frenchman became a real salvation in the attack for the team. At least for the first time. In the first season, he played in 34 matches, scoring 16 goals. However, then the footballer was injured, he began to fall into the composition less often.
In addition, the man was criticized for the fact that he constantly pulls the whole game towards himself, because of which he manages to score more goals, but this is to the detriment of the team. Therefore, Jeremy did not renew the two-year contract with Milan. In the summer of 2016 he returned to France. In his homeland, Menez signed a three-year contract with Bordeaux, for which he had already managed to play seven matches, scoring one goal and giving one assists.
Team appearances
For the French national team, Menez made his debut in August 2010 in a friendly match against the Norwegian team. Since then, in its composition Jeremy spent 24 games. He pushed two goals into the opponent’s goal and gave one assist. Together with the team, he went to the 2012 European Championship , playing there in three out of four matches and scoring one goal against Ukraine. The last time Jeremy was called up to the team in March 2013 for a match against Spain.