Saïd Chabane points out the responsibility of the players and confirms Baticle

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Angers can’t do it anymore. For the first time since playing in Ligue 1, the SCO actually remains on six consecutive defeats. Without a league win since January 23, the Maine-et-Loire club is struggling and is getting dangerously close to the red zone. Fourteenth with only five lengths ahead of the barrage Lorient, Gérald Baticle’s team is invited to wake up. And in particular the players, according to Saïd Chabane. The Angevin president, during an interview granted to The Teamdoes not hesitate to point the finger at the responsibility of his troops.

“We are on the same wavelength”

“I felt it was time to recall the fundamentals of the club, he says to the sports daily. We have gone through much harder periods in the past, we were relegated. But we got up , and not by the operation of the Holy Spirit. By a certain awareness. In Angers, we have the 17th budget. We know that we are going to fight, that we will have hard times. (…) They (the players, editor’s note) are responsible for what happens on the field. It’s up to them to wet the jersey”, calls the leader, who reinforces in the process his coach Gérald Baticle, recruited last summer until in 2025.

“The people who applauded the organization at the start of the season are the same people who say the opposite today, recalls Saïd Chabane. When all is well, yallah! positive.” And the boss of the SCO to be clear and clear: “I have never let go of a coach for his results.” And this, even if he only knew one: Stéphane Moulin, “whom I renewed, even at difficult times”, still notes the president. “People looked at me and said, ‘Is he crazy?’ The adventure ends when we no longer hear each other speak. There, with Gérald, we are on the same wavelength, “says Saïd Chabane.