- New division, new coach, new players waiting for a new direction… The TFC has revolutionized a faulty operation for many years.
- However, the club does not let anything filter, faithful to its media discretion.
About 20 minutes to take the temperature of the "new" TFC, relegated to Ligue 2 after a dreadful season and shortened by the Covid-19. It's the time offered to the media, Monday afternoon at the Stadium technical center. Just enough to see 25 players running and juggling under the orders of Patrice Garande, the new coach landed with his faithful assistant from the Caen era Jean-Marie Huriez.
The tandem succeeds the pair Denis Zanko - Issou Dao, while the Japanese physical trainer Toru Ota also left the Ramier Island. The medical profession changed its heads with the arrival of Patrick Flament, who had to contend with four cases of coronavirus at the outset. On the other hand, Yves Bertucci (assistant), Rudy Riou (in charge of the guards) and Guillaume Ravé (physical trainer), loyal to the job, appear to be survivors.
Meanwhile, in the offices, the new governance is silently taking shape. The club and its very silent President Olivier Sadran indicated last Friday that they were dropping their legal fight alongside Amiens for an unlikely maintenance in Ligue 1. But they still have not formalized the sale of 85% shares in RedBird Capital Partners. And the American investment fund has chosen, for the time being, not to communicate, while it intends to make the TFC its anchor in Europe before investing in other stables in the Old Continent.
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Its French representative (and future Toulouse president) Damien Comolli is already at work since he received for interviews the players from a squad called to lose weight. Present Monday, Gradel, Koulouris, Said, Amian, Sylla or Boisgard (announced in Lorient by La Dépêche du Midi) will not all kick off the first day of the championship, August 22, while eight actors of the catastrophic 2019-2020 fiscal year have already taken a tangent.
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If it is now going to be based on statistical bases, the hobby of RedBird and Comolli, the recruitment cell led by the "ghost" Jérôme Fougeron, back to the fold from where he left in 2015, will essentially target players used to L2 games. Like goalkeeper Maxime Dupé (27), transferred from Nantes but who remains on a successful season in Clermont, in the anteroom of the elite.
These grognards will have to supervise a promising youth, of which certain members however already let sprout a certain anxiety as for their future playing time. The same vagueness reigns for the moment in the offices. The current sports coordinator Pantxi Sirieix, present Monday at the technical center, should continue. But the deputy president Jean-François Soucasse and the recruiter Dominique Arribagé, in the crosshairs of the supporters, are announced starters by the site LesViolets.com.
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