The 2023/24 summer transfer window has started! While the transfer market has been officially open since Saturday June 10, several Ligue 2 BKT clubs have already announced the arrival of new players. Overview.
Benjamin Leroy returns to Ligue 2 BKT!
Several movements among the doormen at the very beginning of the transfer window. Starting with that of Benjamin Leroy, free after his adventure with AC Ajaccio, who joined QRM. At 34, the one who had participated in the rise of the ACA in Ligue 1 Uber Eats in 2021/22 has signed up with the Norman club until 2024 with an optional year. Furthermore, Quevilly-Rouen is taking a gamble Vรฉnuste Baboula. A 24-year-old Central African international, this left attacking midfielder played in N2 with Racing Club de France this season, where he shone (10 goals and 15 assists in 25 games). He will now defend the colors of QRM, with whom he is now linked until June 2026.
Back in Ligue 2 BKT after a season on the top floor, AC Ajaccio was quick to formalize its first two recruits. In search of a goalkeeper after the departure of Benjamin Leroy, the Corsican club has set its sights on Matthew Michael. Also at the end of his contract with the Chamois Niortais, the 31-year-old doorman will thus know his fourth club in Ligue 2 BKT (197 appearances), after Nรฎmes Olympique, AJ Auxerre and therefore Niort. He signed up for two years. Arrived a few days earlier, the midfielder The Jabol-Folcarelli team will also discover the Ajaccien locker room this summer. Aged 23, the one who initialed a contract until June 2026 evolved so far with Puy Foot in National.
Paris welcomes Jules Gaudin
Seventh in Ligue 2 BKT this season, Paris FC also came out on top. With the arrival of Jules Gaudin, at the end of the contract at EA Guingamp, the capital club has a new left side. The 23-year-old, who will now wear number 27, has signed up for the next three seasons. In this 2022/23 financial year, he has registered 2 goals and 3 assists in 29 appearances for the EAG. The Parisians have formalized the arrival of a second player at the start of the transfer window, in the person ofAdam Camara. The 26-year-old midfielder arrives from Racing Club de France (N2) and has linked his future to that of the PFC until June 2025.
Further east, ESTAC Troyes also welcomed a new left-back. At the end of the contract at RC Lens, Ismail Boura returns to Ligue 2 BKT, he who had been loaned to Le Havre AC between October 2021 and June 2022 (16 games). At 22, he is joining Troyes for the next two seasons.
Ducrocq, Cafaro and Nkounkou transferred permanently
Loaned for three years by RC Lens, Tom Ducrocq has for its part been transferred definitively to SC Bastia. As announced in April by the Corsican club, the 23-year-old midfielder has seen his purchase option exercised, with the key to a two-year contract. At AS Saint-Etienne, Mathieu Cafaro et Niels Nkounkou also remain after their loan. Converted right piston by Laurent Batlles in the second half of the season, the first named signed 5 goals and 3 assists in 33 appearances. He is committed until 2025. Nkounkou, meanwhile, will have impressed during his first six months spent in Forez, posting maddening statistics (6 goals and 7 assists in 20 games). The 22-year-old left piston has signed a contract until 2026.
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