• Anthony Limbombe arrived at FC Nantes from Bruges in the summer of 2018.

  • Since 2020, he no longer appears in the FC Nantes jersey and has been sidelined from the pro group in training.

  • The League imposed on the FCN its reintegration into the group.

    The club will comply.

He is one of the highest salaries for FC Nantes and his transfer is the most expensive in the history of the club (8 million euros).

Under contract until 2023, Anthony Limbombe seized the legal committee of the Professional Football League (LFP) to obtain the same training conditions as his teammates.

The League's legal committee has imposed on FC Nantes the reinstatement of the Belgian striker in the professional group, from which he has been excluded since the summer of 2021, Nantes coach Antoine Kombouaré announced on Friday.

"The League's legal committee has taken a decision, I take it into account and, as of tomorrow, he will return to the professional group," said Kombouaré in a pre-match press conference.

" I do not have a choice.

I don't want the club to be sanctioned.

There was a risk of a large fine or withdrawal of points,” he added.

Absent since March 2020

But the 27-year-old player has little chance of appearing on a match sheet: "I told him to choose the sportsman, he made the legal choice", regretted the Nantes coach, defending his " sporting choice.

Limbombe had arrived from Bruges in the summer of 2018 but never managed to win.

His stay in Nantes was marked by a disappointing first season (3 goals, 2 assists), a failed loan to Standard de Liège, a series of injuries and then a long absence: he has not reappeared in the Nantes jersey since March 2020.

In the summer of 2021, Kombouaré sent him back to the reserve team's "loft", with other players from whom the club wanted to part, such as former captain Abdoulaye Touré (left for Genoa) or midfielder Kader. Bamba (loaned to Amiens in L2).

The commission agreed with him at the beginning of March, and had given the club until the beginning of April to reinstate him in the professional group.

"Not fit"

“He is not in the group because he is not suitable”, had hammered Kombouaré in mid-March, citing the example of Jean-Kevin Augustin, another big disappointment from the Nantes transfer window, also sidelined.

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