Discover the good and bad things of the winter transfer window for clubs in the French championship.
TOPS
OM has found its “grantatakan”
Finally ! After various mixed experiences, OM seem to have unearthed the rare bird in attack with the Polish international Arkadiusz Milik, defector from Naples on loan with option to buy. Admittedly, the 26-year-old striker has not played for the season, which suggests that he will not be at the top right away, but in terms of talent, no doubt: the Marseille club has strengthened . Of course, the departure of Morgan Sanson (Aston Villa) is not good news for André Villas-Boas. That of Nemanja Radonjic (Hertha BSC) either. Except at the bank. Pablo Longoria can also congratulate himself on having found a way out to two big salaries, Kevin Strootman (Genoa, loan) and Kostas Mitroglou (released), while grappling with Pol Lirola on the right and Olivier Ntcham, in the middle . All with a good financial operation, namely the Aké-Tongya exchange with Juventus. In short, if all is not well in Marseille at the moment, on the ground and outside, the transfer window of OM is a success.
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Nice, word to the defense
The Eaglets lost big when Dante invited himself to the infirmary for the remainder of the season. A defensive porosity that the Gym has probably settled this winter by attracting good French hopes to its ranks: the former Stéphanois William Saliba from Arsenal and the former Toulouse Jean-Clair Todibo, from Barça. Two reinforcements that will perhaps allow Kasper Dolberg and company to find the Top 10 of the ranking.
Saint-Etienne, brand new?
Like OM, ASSE took the time to find its attacker. After tripping over several issues, such as Mostafa Mohamed (left for Galatasaray) or M’Baye Niang (already tracked last summer and finally stayed in Rennes), the Greens have finally bet on an old acquaintance of Ligue 1, in check in Cologne, the ex-Bordelais Anthony Modeste. At 32, he will have to bring his experience and his sense of purpose to a Forézienne team which is sorely lacking … Note that the Stéphanois have also paid for a defensive reinforcement in the person of the Senegalese international of Olympiakos Pape Abou Cissé . Not luxury …
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Georginho Rutter, (again) a hope heading to the Bundesliga
The future will tell if Georginho Rutter is called upon to become a great striker. In the meantime, it is in Hoffenheim that he will continue his progression, not in Rennes. As it has become an unfortunate habit, a young talent (18 years) French prefers to join Germany than to stay in L1. “It’s a great disappointment, plague the Rennes sports director, Florian Maurice, on the channel The team. We have done everything to ensure that he continues the adventure in Rennes. I think we sent him very strong signals. ” Not enough to silence the German sirens … “I think we will really have to work on this first professional contract of three years, which puts the French clubs in great difficulty,” he continues. Players are asking for increasingly younger professional contracts, from the age of 16, which brings them in the last year to 18 years. However, it is often at these times that they begin to play, with some exceptions, and that it is necessary to discuss an extension again. Foreign clubs are very fond of French players, we are a very large training center in France for foreign clubs. ” It would indeed be good to look into this subject at the LFP.
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The Canaries are deplored
Things are bad in Nantes… And it is not the transfer window that will have arranged things. The FCN lost one of its incumbents, Mehdi Abeid (Al Nasr), without recruiting anyone. “The panic-buy is not good,” Raymond Domenech said for West France, on Monday. I prefer to rely on the current group which has shown something. ” The former coach has remained loyal to this line though, as assured The team and West France, he said no to the arrival of former Bordeaux player Adam Ounas on loan at the end of the transfer window. In the meantime, the Canaries are even more plucked than in early January.
Cozza-Montpellier, explosive reunion?
Nobody moves in Montpellier. Nicolas Cozza either. However, the young (22) defender was very close to Valladolid. “We accepted their proposal on Sunday. And on Monday, they told us they did not want the player, ”President Nicollin told Free Midi. Good news ? On paper, yes. Especially since Vito Hilton (43 years old) and Pedro Mendes (36 years old) are not eternal. Except that Cozza’s behavior was only moderately appreciated internally. “When a 22-year-old kid only plays four out of five games and wants to leave because he considers that he is the most beautiful and the strongest, it annoys and annoys me, complained Laurent Nicollin last Thursday, still in Free Midi. This is not in the spirit of La Paillade. If people think it’s better elsewhere, I don’t hold anyone back. When we are badly advised, we are badly advised. ” Atmosphere … Since then, the president of the MHSC has put water in his wine: “I have no worries: he will give all he can give.” End of the story ?
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