Ilyes Chetti was sentenced on April 6 to a four-month suspended prison sentence for sexual assault committed on December 4 in an angel nightclub. Angers has appealed and hopes that the latter will be suspensive in order to be able to recruit in the offseason.

Chetti affair had led to another when his coach Abdel Bouhazama, during a pre-match chat in Montpellier in early March, had told his players: "It's not bad, we have all already touched girls"