• Two northerner journalists have been recounting the backstage of transfers to Racing for nearly a hundred years.

  • From Marx to Clauss via Foé, Nouma and Meyrieu, there are many dramatic events.

Telling the story of RC Lens through the backs of transfers is the successful bet made by David Derieux and Gregory Lallemand, two journalists from the

Voix du Nord.

In their self-published work "RC Lens, history of transfers", we discover the stories of fifteen incredible transfers from the 1930s to today and told by football players of the time (players, sports directors, presidents ... )

“We go behind the scenes with its opaque areas, its interests, its money stories,” says Grégory Lallemand.

But there are also and above all stories of men.

We see how lives are tipped over on transfers.

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Unusual anecdotes

Filled with anecdotes, the book teaches us for example how, in 1975, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the Republic at the time, was contacted by André Delelis, socialist mayor of Lens, to get Joachim Marx out of the Communist Poland and get it signed by the Sang et Or.

The arrival of Fredéric Meyrieu in the 1990s is not trivial either.

Coming from the South by plane to sign at Losc, the player will be picked up by the Lensois leaders on his arrival at Lesquin airport (North).

Recruitment lost in romanticism

The incredible transfers, like those of the late Marc-Vivien Foé, Pascal Nouma, Nenad Kovacevic or, more recently, Jonathan Clauss are narrated in detail. Over the decades, we also realize that recruitment has become enormously professional, gaining in quality all that it has lost in romanticism.

"There is a lot more data and a lot less uncertainty than before," remarks Grégory Lallemand.

Today, the people who follow the club no longer wait for the first friendly of the season to see what the rookies are worth.

When you think that in the 1990s, the club signed Foé without seeing him play a match… ”Even if social networks can also change certain transfers.

The uses and the methods change, but the mercatos always keep their share of dramatic changes.

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