A transfer in the middle of the season.
The three-quarter center Gaël Fickou, who has signed up with Racing 92 for next season, will leave Stade Français Paris and finish the season with his new club, a source with knowledge of the case told AFP on Thursday. , confirming the information from
RMC Sport
.
At the end of March, the two clubs had formalized the transfer, Fickou joining Racing 92 for the next four seasons, from the next fiscal year.
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But the 27-year-old player (63 selections with the Blues) will therefore land in his new club earlier than expected, thanks to the opening by the NRL of a special transfer window and "exceptionally", between the 9th and the 30th. April.
According to RMC Sports, Fickou himself would have announced it to his future former partners at Stade Français in recent hours.
"It's an attractive project, superb infrastructures, a lot of ambitions"
Gaël Fickou
“To play with my best friend, Teddy Thomas, but also Virimi Vakatawa.
It is an attractive project, superb infrastructures, a lot of ambitions.
They are playing the Champions Cup.
It's a team that grows year after year and gets stronger year after year.
It's fun, in an incredible stadium.
It will be a good thing and I will have a lot of fun, ”Fickou told
RMC Sport,
before the announcement of his early departure from Stade Français.
Gaël Fickou should have worn the Stade Français jersey one last time against ... Racing 92, Saturday, on behalf of the 21st day of Top 14. The meeting was finally postponed to the weekend of May 1 due to case proven within the first row of UBB, last opponent of Ile-de-France, in the quarter-finals of the European Cup.
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