The 10 most dear recruits to Antoine Kombouaré's CV

February 15, 2021 at 9:20 PM by Téo Greuzat

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Antoine Kombouaré has just returned to service, at the bedside of FC Nantes.

Just arrived at FC Nantes to replace Raymond Domenech, Antoine Kombouaré appears as a safe bet in the French championship. He began his coaching career in Strasbourg in 2003, eighteen years later the former PSG player is still on a Ligue 1 bench. In recent years, the native of Nouméa has been hired to maintain his teams, and is satisfied with transfers at lower cost.

The madness of grandeur at PSG

His most significant experience will remain that of Paris-Saint-Germain, marked by a change of ownership and the arrival of Qatar in world football. The 2011-12 season, a new era which marked the beginnings of the first expensive transfers, under the presidency of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi. At the head, the flagship recruit of the start of the pharaonic project of PSG, Javier Pastore arrived from Palermo in 2011 against the sum of 42 million euros.

Nine PSG players in Antoine Kombouaré’s top 10

Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of the ranking is made up of former Parisians. However, a non-PSG player appears in the top 10, Sory Kaba. Arrived from Elche in Dijon against the sum of four million euros in the winter transfer window of 2019, the striker left the club six months later to join Midtjylland. During his Parisian experience, Antoine Kombouaré also recruited the future world champion Blaise Matuidi, who will be the best performing player in this ranking below…