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courted by a great European, the sports director of Angers wants to stay

A large European club has contacted Sébastien Larcier, sports director of the SCO since April 2020, to find out his position on a possible departure from the Maine-et-Loire club. This first approach was rejected by the sports director.

Angers is one of the nice surprises of the start of the Ligue 1 season. With seven points taken in three league matches, the SCO validates, for the moment, the choices made in recent months with the arrival of Gerald Baticle at the post. coach and Sébastien Larcier as sports director.

A little over a year after his arrival, the former director of the Dijon recruitment unit is already being courted. According to our information, a large European club has already contacted Sébastien Larcier via certain intermediaries to find out its position on a possible departure from the Maine-et-Loire club. A first approach rejected by the sports director. Contact, Larcier did not wish to react.

He can’t see himself leaving

Arrived in April 2020, Sébastien Larcier has embarked on a restructuring of the Angevin workforce. With the will to trust young elements like Batista Mendy (2000), Azzedine Ounahi (2000) and the emergence of Mohamed-Ali Cho. But also the obligation to reduce the expenses of a club hit, like all French football, by the health and economic crisis. The number three of Angers SCO is also working to reorganize the club internally, with a recruitment unit under construction and a stronger link with the training center.

Only a few months after having undertaken this work, Sébastien Larcier does not see himself leaving and hopes to be able to reap the fruits of these first weeks of work this season. It is also not certain that Angers can accept a departure of its sporting director after leading these changes.

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