The End of Ambitious Promises: Nice’s New Coach Takes a Realistic Approach

This time, the new coach will not announce that “within two years, Nice should regularly finish in the top three, even more”. The sentence uttered by Lucien Favre last summer, on the occasion of his hopeful return to the Gym bench, seems very far away. A year ago, driven by the ambition of Ineos and its culture of winning in sports where the English group interfered, the leaders of Nice did not hesitate, in private, to multiply the effects of the round . That time is over.