Having moved to Stade Rennais between 2013 and 2016, the current TFC manager has left mixed memories over two and a half seasons in Brittany, where he mainly had to deal with Dembélé’s outbreak.
The last time TFCa won in Rennes was on 15 December 2015, in the last 16 of the Coupe de la Ligue. On the Breton bench a certain Philippe Montanier, who will be thanked almost a month later, in January 2016, halfway through a season that was undoubtedly his best in Brittany.
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According to those who supported him in these two and a half years spent on the Rossoneri bench, we would hardly recognize what we know today at Toulouse. Rennais is a misunderstanding “sums up a close friend of the club. In Rennes he ended up being a rather confused manager, both for the players and the fans, with many changes in the composition of the team and a rather defensive reputation.”
The Ousmane Dembélé case
In Rennes, where he will finally be replaced by Rolland Courbis – originally called by the president René Ruello to play a simple role of consultant – Philippe Montanier will also find himself “confronted” with the emergence of a phenomenon, Ousmane Dembélé. Opposite, because the rise to power of the 2018 world champion in the Breton club will take place with some turbulence: “Everyone could see that there was this guy very above the lot in reserve, but the staff were not very keen on taking him up to the first team” recalls another close to the club “It was very hot, and at the time it had animated the news. »
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Philippe Montanier will finally launch him in Ligue 1 at 6pm in November 2015, after a stalemate during the previous summer, Dembélé no longer showed up for training and forced himself to leave the club, according to Ouest France’s account that summer.
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Eight years later, “Stade Rennais is very different,” observes Montanier. At the time we had the 10th or 11th L1 budget, it was more of a training club, where we had to give youngsters a chance, with more limited means. “What is now the TFC manager has also changed, leaving behind the reputation of Rennes and offering Toulouse a consistent and offensive game. “It also came at a time when the context of Rennes was unstable; undoubtedly suffered for the environment” we recognize in Brittany.
