The transfer market closed these doors this Thursday at midnight (Bayonne and Perpignan however have ten additional days since they had to wait to find out if they would evolve in the Top 14).
If a few last minute signings can still be revealed, the results of this transfer window, lively on the French side but sluggish on the foreign stars side, can already be drawn up.
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Fixtures and Top 14 results
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French internationals are on the move
The pre-World Cup season is usually very calm on the side of the Blues, who are reluctant to take the risk of changing their tunic so close to the goal.
This time, it moves a little more.
With the transfer of
Cameron Woki
.
The second or third line of the XV of France, cold with the manager of the UBB Christophe Urios leaves the Gironde for the suburbs of Paris.
Racing 92 has indeed bought out his last year of contract to achieve the big blow of this transfer market.
Another potential globalist, winger
Teddy Thomas
left Racing 92 to join the ranks of European champion La Rochelle.
Stade Toulousain strengthens its Blue contingent with the recruitment of full-back
Melvyn Jaminet
(ex-Perpignan) and center
Pierre-Louis Barassi
(formerly LOU).
LOU center Pierre-Louis Barassi joins Stade Toulousain.
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It is especially in the ranks of the “possibles” that things are moving.
To try to grab a place in extremis on the list of 33 Blues selected for the World Cup in France, several of them are betting on relaunching themselves in new colors.
Thus the opener of the RCT
Louis Carbonel
who signed with the champion of France Montpellier.
Toulon is experiencing a real haemorrhage on this side with its other number 10,
Anthony Belleau
, and the center
Julien Hériteau
, who join Clermont.
Stade Rochelais is betting a lot on this profile of ambitious young French people with the pillars
Paiva
(ex-UBB) and
Colombe
(ex-Racing 92), the third line of Racing
Yoan
Tanga
and Section Paloise opener Antoine Hastoy.
The young and promising scrum-half
Léo Coly
made the leap from Mont-de-Marsan (Pro D2) to MHR, winner of the Top 14.
Former Blues take up a final challenge
Who would have imagined
Morgan Parra
in another jersey than that of Clermont?
The former scrum half of the XV of France will however adorn himself with pink since he joins the Stade Français Paris.
Aviron Bayonnais, which goes back to the Top 14, is also a vintage player since it recruited the hinge of the XV of France in the mid-2010s with scrum-half
Maxime Machenaud
(ex-Racing 92) and opener
Camille Lopez
(ex-Clermont).
Jules Plisson
, very little used in La Rochelle, will try to relaunch his career in Clermont.
The former Stade Français opener, after a mixed spell at Stade Rochelais, signed up with Clermont.
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Conversely, Guilhem
Guirado
and Fulgence
Ouedraogo
(MHR), Louis
Picamoles
and François
Trinh-Duc
(UBB), or even Maxime
Médard
(Stade Toulousain) will no longer tread the lawns of the Top 14 after having made the decision to hang up their crampons at age 35 or older.
No foreign stars
Pre-World Cup year obliges, no foreign star took the risk of giving up his selection by coming to exercise his talents in the Top 14. A few names emerge, but nothing fancy.
The main attraction will be to be observed on the Montpellier side with the New Zealand left pillar Karl Tu'inukuafe (29 years old, 25 caps), however in decline in recent months.
The left pillar of the All Blacks, Karl Tu'inukuafe (29 years old, 25 selections) has signed up with Montpellier.
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Clermont is betting on two young Australians with high potential, center
Irae Simone
(ex-Brumbies) and rear
Alex Newsome
(ex-Waratahs).
Le Lou has attracted All Blacks third hooker
Liam Coltman
(ex-Highlanders), South African Bulls third line
Arno Botha
and Australian center
Kyle Godwin
(ex-Western Force).
Nothing to get excited about more than reason.
The most anticipated is finally the very young back or winger from Grenoble (Pro D2)
Ange Capuozzo
, who revealed himself during the last Six Nations Tournament in the jersey of Italy.
His talent is obvious and he should wreak havoc in the ranks of Stade Toulousain.
It's moving among the regulars of the Top 14
No exhaustive list but some focus on French championship executives who change clubs.
La Rochelle winger
Arthur Retière
and UBB third-line
Alexandre Roumat
have signed at Stade Toulousain.
Who lets go of the Australian opener
Zack Holmes
in Bordeaux-Bègles.
The UBB which loses the Fijian
Seuteni
and the pillar
Paiva
(both join La Rochelle) as well as the winger
Ben Lam
, now from Montpellier.
Section Paloise hooker
Quentin Lespiaucq
is also heading to Stade Rochelais.
The third line of the MHR
Kévin Galletier
rallies him, Perpignan.
The talented Fijian Ulupano Seuteni leaves UBB to join the European champion from La Rochelle.
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Toulon and Stade Français Paris have focused their recruitment on this category of players.
The RCT thus recovered
Priso
(prop, La Rochelle),
Baubigny
(hooker, Racing 92),
Tanguy
(second row, La Rochelle),
Paillaugue
(scrum half, Montpellier),
West
(opener, La Rochelle),
Sinzelle
( center, La Rochelle) and Stade Français Paris star, Fijian center
Waisea
.
For its part, the SFP attracted
Ivaldi
(hooker, Lyon),
Peyresblanques
(hooker, Biarritz),
Pesenti
(second row, Racing 92),
Habel-Kuffner
(third row, Pau),
Ory
(third line, Toulon) or the young
Hirigoyen
(third line, Biarritz).
Solid but not flashy for the Parisian club which could announce a big foreign recruit at the center position.