Rennes (AFP)
Former Blues coach Raymond Domenech, who has not led a team since the Knysna fiasco in 2010, will coach FC Nantes for the end of the season, we learned from an internal club source on Wednesday. confirming information from 20 minutes and from the Parisian.
A club spokesperson, however, assured AFP that nothing had yet been signed.
Domenech would thus become the 15th coach of Nantes - not counting the interim ones - since the arrival of President Waldemar Kita in 2007. But this appointment should not be formalized before Thursday, while the Canaries, currently 15th in Ligue 1 to 3 points of the barrage, move Wednesday evening in Lyon.
Aged 68, Domenech has passed the age limit of 65 and will have to obtain a waiver from the Professional Football League (LFP).
As president of Unecatef, the French coaches union, he had also criticized the choice to grant such a derogation to Claudio Ranieri, who became Nantes coach in 2017, the year of his 66 years.
Even if the name of Domenech had already been mentioned when Vahid Halilhodzic left in the summer of 2019, his return to a bench would be a surprise.
Having become a media consultant, Raymond Domenech has not been in charge of a team since the strike of French players in Knysna (South Africa) during the 2010 World Cup, and has not been a club coach since Lyon (1988-1993).
According to sources inside the club, talks were close to being concluded with Switzerland's René Weiler, former Anderlecht coach, but Kita gave up fearing that he was accused of still using the networks of the controversial agent. Mogi Bayat.
On social networks, the rumor of the arrival of Domenech has caused many criticisms from supporters, already very upset for years against the management of Kita.
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