• Franck Kita gave the resumption press conference this Thursday morning.

  • The Deputy Director General of the FCN did not evade any subject, even the hottest.

He knew he was expected on many subjects.

While a dozen supporters (with a banner "We will never let go, Kita out") faced five or six gendarmes at the entrance of Jonelière, Franck Kita, the deputy general manager of FC Nantes, s' is presented in front of twenty media.

"It makes me happy to see you ..." he said straight away, with a smile.

For nearly an hour, without ever really getting annoyed, by "dribbling" the questions sometimes as well as Ludovic Blas in small spaces and repeating over and over that the club was not for sale, FK did update on all hot issues and even hot ones.

The growing protest, he doesn't care

As he had already stated, Franck Kita says he is not concerned about the growing protest.

The banner when arriving at Jonelière?

“It's a little word of welcome.

I only counted a few who dispute, that's okay.

I am very happy to be here today.

There will always be dissatisfied people.

[…] That's life, there are problems, you have to face them.

The GM does not fear for his safety, even during the next preparation matches which will be held in the region.

With a bit of arrogance, he said: “If I want to go to friendlies, I'll go.

If I want to walk around town, I'll go.

[…] This is our fifteenth year here, there is not much that can scare us.

"

Franck Kita would be "very sad to leave"

But what pleasure can they take to continue in a club where they are hated by more and more people?

“Me, I love it [the club, football].

The president too.

We have that in us, it's incredible.

It would make me very sad to leave, because I love this club deeply.

We are passionate.

Frankly, in a season like the last, you see the real men.

It was amazing!

You can't experience that anywhere else.

Frankly, where am I going to experience this?

"

He confided not at all "projecting elsewhere" [than in the FCN].

A little masochistic, no?

“We are not masochistic, we are passionate!

"Before doing (a little) a lot:" I love the club because with all the emotions experienced for fifteen years, it becomes passionate, carnal ... "

The tribute to Kombouaré for the past season

With Antoine Kombouaré on the bench, the FCN, who stayed on the edge in play-offs, made a nice comeback (7th in L1 over the period with Kanak) "A season like that, we saw it once or twice in a lifetime.

Antoine [Kombouaré] arrived and he took things in hand, he aligned the stars.

"Asked twice about the Raymond Domenech fiasco, FK just said:" We should perhaps have taken Antoine Kombouaré earlier ... "

He makes amends on the coffin unearthing

The CEO of the FCN returned to the episode of the coffin with the inscription FC Kita on it, which had been buried by supporters, then unearthed a week later by Kita collaborators and employees.

“There were mistakes on both sides.

There was a burial, but the burial ... You don't realize the impact it can have on some people to see his name on a coffin.

"

Before recognizing that digging up was not the idea of ​​the century.

“But, if we want things to calm down, we have to do a mea culpa.

I apologize, the president apologizes, we did some bad things, it's obvious, or we should not have done some things.

But let's try to be constructive, to move forward, the club is not for sale, we will stay there, as long as things go well.

"

A declining budget next season

Monday, the club will pass its grand oral in front of the DNCG.

“Like other clubs, we took out loans,” said FK.

But between the supporters who cannot come to the stadium, the situation related to Covid-19 ... the budget has significantly decreased.

We went to 65 million euros budget against 75 last season.

It will take a little more attention to everything.

But since we never do madness, nothing will change.

The GM admitted that the club had lost "40 million euros" this year.

He plaits laurels in Mogi Bayat

Belgian agent Mogi Bayat has been the club's unofficial sporting director for several years.

“All the clubs have a preferential network of agents.

He's an excellent agent with a great network.

But on the last players that we brought in [Cyprien and Descamps], he is not the agent.

FK spoke of Mogi "as a friend who works well, who took good players from us and sold [some] for a good price".

We Before concluding: “You give it too much importance.

"

Randal Kolo Muani?

"We don't want to sell it"

The Nantes striker, who will play with the hopes of the Olympics at the end of the month, does not want to extend and comes to the end of his contract in a year.

The player, trained at FCN, wants to go to Germany (Frankfurt).

The direction of the FCN would ask too much for Randal Kolo Muani (at least 12 million euros now), free to sign where he wants in a year… An escalation which for the moment would have discouraged the contenders.

Franck Kita: “He's a very good player.

We don't want to sell it, we do everything to keep it.

But it's football, the transfer window, anything is possible.

If we don't manage to extend it, as long as there is still a little left… ”Even if it means letting him go free in a year, really?

He says "the club is not for sale"

“This is our 15th season and I get questions about the sale several times a year.

And each time, nothing happens.

I am not looking at anything, I am not a seller.

After we are in football, we can always listen.

There still has to be an interesting offer.

And then, we know what we lose, we do not know what we will have after ... "

As for the Nantes Collective [company created with the aim of buying or joining forces for a future buyout] of Philippe Plantive, manager of Proginov, and Mickaël Landreau, ex-goalkeeper of the FCN, Franck Kita does not think much of it. -something, but doesn't say anything bad about it either.

“I don't watch what's going on, I don't read the interviews.

But it's good for the club that there are so many fans of FC Nantes.

The rest doesn't make me hot or cold.

"

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