Niko Kovac, new Monaco coach, has dismissed a dozen players, including striker Keita Baldé and defender Jemerson, who train away from the professional group, we learned from sources close to the club on Thursday. of the Principality.
After an internship in Poland last week where they had not been invited, "to allow them to pursue a specific physical preparation", we explained then within the club, a group of ten players did not not resumed with the group trained by Niko Kovac and is currently undergoing individual training separately.
This group is made up of experienced players such as Senegalese striker Keita Baldé, under contract with Monaco until June 2022, or Brazilian defender Jemerson, under contract until June 2021. Other seasoned professionals, such as the Moroccan international midfielder Youssef Aït Bennasser, Malian international midfielder Adama Traoré, striker Samuel Grandsir and Brazilian international defender Jorge are also part of this group.
They are accompanied by the young Wilson Isidor, Julien Serrano and Adrien Bongiovanni, Lyle Foster (on the departure for the Portuguese club of Guimaraes), and Franco Antonucci, on the departure for the Dutch club Feyenoord Rotterdam.
Sidibé back soon
Even if the case of each of them has not yet been fully decided by the management of the club, sporting director Paul Mitchell would like to see them leave. Especially since, gradually, five other players, whose loans had been extended last June in order to end the season in their respective clubs and whose situations are complex, will return to the training center of La Turbie.
These are the defender of the French world champion Djibril Sidibé (back from Everton), the Italian defender Antonio Barreca (Genoa), the Bissaoguinean midfielder Pelé (Reading), the Portuguese midfielder Gil Dias (Granada) and the striker. Spanish Jordi Mboula (Huesca). Finally, Mitchell and Kovac must also take a clear position on the two injured players, Cesc Fabregas, under contract until June 2022, and Stevan Jovetic (June 2021), who are among the club's biggest salaries.
On the other hand, Jean-Eudes Aholou, Nacer Chadli, Henry Onyekuru and Sofiane Diop, undesirable under Leonardo Jardim then Robert Moreno, are currently part of the group of Kovac, which has just hired the Croatian Vatroslav Mihacic as the new goalkeeper coach.
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