“We gained a place in the championship compared to the previous year. What is positive, too, is that we played in the semi-final of the Coupe de France, and that’s not nothing. Sometimes I feel like we’re a little too modest. We must not trivialize our performances, in a championship which is one of the two best in the world. A lot of people don’t realize that. It’s only the third year that we’ve been in the Starligue, and we’ve managed to build a coherent group that holds up. A real group. Even if on certain matches, I recognize it, it was not seen. And in terms of level of play, it has nothing to do with what we offered two years ago. We continue to progress, we are on the right track to do even better. »
Regrets: “7 to 10 more points, it was doable”
“We could have done better, even if it wouldn’t have allowed us to gain a lot of places in the standings. But taking seven to ten more points was doable. Mentally, the Coupe de France gave us energy. With all our individualities, I think we had a team stronger than our budget. Our ranking is in line with our budget (11th in Starligue), but the results are below our potential. We could have won at Nancy, at Dunkirk, against Saran at home, that’s obvious. The two matches against Toulouse were also within our reach, and in Cesson, we commit suicide…
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C’Chartres MHB finishes in the Top 10
But easy matches don’t exist and the other clubs work well too, you have to keep that in mind. Overall, we lacked a lot of rigor and regularity. Leadership also to put the players in front of their responsibilities from time to time. In defense, he lacked the one who holds the barracks. I think he will arrive this summer (note: Ilija Abutovic). We have room for improvement in defence. In attack, we know how to do it. We lacked maturity, many players did not know the championship, had to adapt, the most telling example being that of Nicolai Pedersen. »
Recruitment: “It’s over”
“Next year, we will have fourteen experienced players, two neo-pros with Hugo Jund and Yanis Busselier, and two pro trainees, with Marc-Alexandre Saussay and Zoran Radic. Our recruitment is over. […] Djordje Djekic will not stay. When he arrived, he was interested in staying, but he didn’t want to wait a bit and quickly signed with Créteil. From then on, it was up to him and his agent to negotiate his breakup. We were willing to make a move, because we were disrupting Créteil somewhere, but in the end, it didn’t materialize. »
The objectives: “aim for between 6th and 9th place”
“Sportingly, we will have the ambition to do better, it’s a normal development. So we will aim for between 6th and 9th place. Even if we are aware that 6th is complicated, because the championship is more and more homogeneous. For this, the watchword will be rigor. We are behind our coach Toni Gerona. And those who do not accept what we want to put in place will have to draw the consequences. »
Finances: “We leave with the same budget”
“We are keeping the same budget (€3.6 million) and the same payroll. The amounts have not changed for three years. Moreover, what helps us a lot is our training center. When every year, we can offer a contract to a young person, it makes life easier. As long as we are not in the new room, the budget will be stable. Then the tool will bring us additional resources. The idea from the start was for communities to prime the pump. And it worked.
Chartres Hand Co n°15: Yannick Cham, the Minister of Defense of C’Chartres MHB
Afterwards, we will take over, with the provision of this superb tool. We remain on an opening between September and November 2023. Our goal remains to build something lasting and will be to offer a quality and high level show to fill the room. Afterwards, Europe is something else, and that will only happen through an increase in our resources. »
Projects: “Strengthening the development division”
“Today, the club is structured with a president (Steeve Baron), a general manager (himself), and three poles. An administrative and financial pole, which was recently entrusted to Lucas Grégoire, a sports pole, which is not likely to evolve immediately, and a development pole which we wish to expand. It brings together the marketing, communication and marketing of the room. This fall, we hope to recruit someone stocky, experienced. We worked until now with work-study students, but we are going to stop this system, even if our two work-study students have done a very good job. We have just made two full-time hires, Today we have 31 pay slips at the club. »
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