Castelletto, Lafont and Girotto in the draw (1-1) in Nîmes.

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  • Nearly 300 supporters (or not) responded to the call for witnesses launched by 

    20 Minutes

    .

  • They tell whether or not they believe in maintaining the Canaries, current 19th in L1 ten days from the end of the championship.

  • Many are even hoping for relegation for the current management to leave Nantes.

Confusion, sadness, hope for better days, nostalgia, anger, indifference, humor, irony… The feelings are intertwined among the supporters of FC Nantes when

20 Minutes

 offers them a call for witnesses on whether or not to maintain their club in Ligue 1 at the end of the season, 19th in Ligue 1 ten days from the end.

Do you still believe in it or not at all?

Out of some 300 contributions, a minority “want to believe it”, like Hélène, “even if it's been hanging around for a while”.

Daniel thinks “it's when we are at the bottom of the pool that we go up”.

Like him, Yohan, referee at FCN, has faith in Antoine Kombouaré, who had to put “a big fan on his players” after the final defeat (1-2) against Reims.

"We have a leader of men at the head of the team now," Stan breathes.

Optimism is even de rigueur on the side of Micka, especially since the arrival of Kanak: “Potentially, this team is much superior to others.

Kombouaré is on the right track.

"Nicolas clings to the figures:" As long as it is still possible mathematically, you have to believe in it.

»Johan clings to him more« in 18th place, synonymous with dams ».

“This is the maximum that this team can achieve […] in the face of the dynamic of the best maintenance competitor, Lorient.

"Dominique, him, takes the opposite of many contributions that will follow:" Nantes will be maintained.

Stop the bashing of the club and the management.

"

"Opponents more experienced in the fight for maintenance"

A final testimony that contrasts with the resignation and pessimism of many other Internet users.

Franck and Louis find it hard to believe in a “miracle”.

“I don't see how we could win five or six games to maintain ourselves when we have won four since the start of the season.

"Still in the same vein, Michel P. believes that" Nantes is not Lourdes, miracles do not exist in football without a minimum of talent and effort.

The FCN currently has neither.

»Steven sees« Lorient, better armed, and Nîmes, better mentally ».

"Opponents more experienced in the fight for maintenance", according to Yann while the FCN is "mentally fragile", for Jean-Luc.

Estelle points to "too many technical shortcomings, players simply not up to the level like Traoré who has a series of performances all more catastrophic than the others", and an absence of "revolt".

Yohann, "optimist by nature", does not believe "at all".

“I believe in Kombouaré's desire and his ability to involve this team, but I think it's unfortunately already too late.

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“Unless you play the last matches in Lourdes!

"

Mickaël suggests doing a little math: “Ten games left.

Sixteen points necessary to reach the 40 points usually synonymous with maintenance.

Which represents five wins and one draw or four wins and four draws.

We are entitled to a maximum of four defeats out of the ten remaining games while we will face Paris, Nice, Rennes, Lyon, Brest, Montpellier… Conclusion: Road to Ligue 2 BKT my friends!

»Greg sings, him, of Lara Fabian:« I still believe in iteeeeeeeee!

Me, personally, I no longer believe it.

Unless you play the last matches in Lourdes.

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Benjamin and Alexis (“yet not superstitious”) have the impression of coming back in 2007… and the club's first relegation.

"The similarities are frightening: mercenaries, inefficiency, technical and organizational weaknesses", according to the first.

Bruno dismisses the players he describes as "irresponsible people with big melons".

Pierre: “The atmosphere around the club is deleterious, the group has no leader and collapses at the slightest difficulty.

"Also, according to Sylvain," the FCN will relish the Ligue 2 evenings, it is a certainty.

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"A descent in L2 will be enough for the Kita to leave!"

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Which is not to displease a plethora of aficionados.

“I want relegation to Ligue 2, says Vincent.

This will get rid of Waldemar Kita!

And I don't think I'm the only one… ”Maxime is part of this fringe of supporters who have come up against the current management.

“I want Ligue 2. To hope for an even more likely sale, to sanction 14 years of incompetence, to start again on a real sporting and human project.

"Mathis, aged only 16, who says he has known" only Ligue 2 and the soft underbelly of Ligue 1 "and" can no longer bear [...] to see what my grandfather and my father have so much. darling and adulated sink ”, hopes a descent to see the FCN“ reborn ”.

Gérald, him, fan since 1989, whom “his colleagues let suffer in silence”, thinks that it is “time for the Kita family to recognize the failure and pass the hand”.

"A descent in L2 will be enough for the Kita to leave, if that's the price to pay, let's go," says Maxime.

David: “Nantes in L2, it's terribly sad, but bad for good.

"Alain does not go by four ways either:" I do not want the maintenance.

This is the only solution to get rid of a president who has destroyed an institution and Nantes' heritage.

"" But what do we have to lose [in the event of relegation]?

Nothing, since nothing remains of the institution, ”concludes Steven.

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