The former Canaries, players and coaches, of all generations, do not jostle to assess the sports management of FC Nantes, where Antoine Kombouaré has just been appointed this Thursday to replace Raymond Domenech.
Some say they have distanced themselves for a while.
Others, disillusioned, do not consider it useful to add comments to the comments, at a time when the 19th coach of the Kita era enters the track.
“Mention FC Nantes?
No !
"Cut politely but firmly Jean-Claude Suaudeau, 82, the emblematic coach of the 1980s and 1990s." I was a player and trainer in this club, that gives me the right to be silent, asserts his successor Raynald Denoueix, 72 years old, coach of the Canaries from 1997 to 2001. I refuse to comment and I think that is enough telling.
»A way of showing disapproval.
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"All I want is for Antoine
(Kombouaré) to
save the club from relegation," said Reynald Pedros, 49, 1995 champion, momentarily too busy with his mission as coach of the Moroccan women's team. .
Champion of France in 2001, Nicolas Gillet, 45, suffers but in silence.
“FC Nantes is my third family after mine and that of my wife.
I'm already hurt enough like that by the situation, I don't want to add more in the comments.
"
"President Kita absolutely does not manage the pressure"
On the other hand, Jérôme Alonzo, 48, even if his DNA is not 100% Nantes, does not hesitate to deliver his vision of things.
“In Nantes, I ended my career like that, with three coaches for my last pro year (Gernot Rohr, Jean-Marc Furlan and Baptiste Gentili in 2009-2010 in L 2), underlines the former PSG goalkeeper.
Waldemar Kita is someone who has been able to keep a cool head in business, but there is another Waldemar, club president, who does not manage the pressure at all… He has never known how to surround himself with 'a n ° 2 worthy of the name, from a
chief of football
who knows the house, the particular environment of FC Nantes.
Someone who can act as a firewall and explain the habits and customs of football in Waldemar.
"
For Alonzo, the Domenech case is symptomatic of a small-time management: “Personally, in January, between Raymond and Antoine
(Kombouaré),
I would have taken Antoine every day.
But you can't panic after five weeks.
You left ten weeks until mid-March and, there, you advised… I cannot understand how with a treasure like FC Nantes, one can make such a porridge, year after year.
You can't change your coach in January imagining he is going to win seven games and not change him in February because he hasn't won a single one.
Waldemar is in constant improvisation and lack of anticipation.
It's going to cost him his club, now he can't get by… "
Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes, 68 years old, historic goalkeeper and most capped player of FC Nantes (650 games) avoids any hazardous exit: "I will never criticize Mr. Kita, because it is he who put money when no one wanted the club.
It's his dough, he does what he wants.
However, we do not change coach every four morning when we have a coherent policy.
"
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And replace Domenech with Kombouaré?
"I thought that Domenech, with whom I served in the army and played in the French junior team, could be the man for the job," resumes Bertrand-Demanes.
But if Kombouaré arrives
with the machete,
it will work.
What emerges is that either the players are paralyzed, or do not move much the heart ... However, you have the right to miss a control or a strike, but you do not have the right not to run, not to make the effort for the boyfriend.
"
The first match of the Kombouaré era will take place on Sunday in Angers.
Then the Canaries will host OM, a week later at La Beaujoire.
A meeting that already smells of sulfur.
Nantes supporters have not finished running out of oxygen.