The president of Racing 92, Jacky Lorenzetti, and his successor, Laurent Travers, gave a long interview to Le Figaro. During which the two men talked about their way of operating for recruitment. "I don't choose recruits," Jacky Lorenzetti assured us. I act the choices of Laurent and Stuart (Lancaster, the future coach of Racing, editor's note)." This is confirmed by Laurent Travers: "We exchanged three and Mr. Lorenzetti validated according to the balance of the Salary cap. Financial management is his field. It has always been very clear and very framed for ten years...
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Regarding the position of opener - Scottish star Finn Russell has committed to the English club Bath and the contract of Fijian Ben Volavola will not be extended - the two men have assured that the recruitment of a new big name (after Sexton, Lambie, Carter, Russell ...) was not on the agenda. "We are lucky to have two youngsters in 10, Tristan Tedder, whom we recruited (from Perpignan, editor's note), and Antoine (Gibert). We want to trust them." An option validated by Stuart Lancaster.
"When so many good players arrive at the same time, it is impossible to increase them all"
Also asked about the departures, in recent seasons, of several players trained at the club, they justified this choice. "The difficulty is that we have trained a lot of good players at the same time," said Laurent Travers. We have had an exceptional generation. And we will continue to work for the future generation to be as good. But when so many good players arrive at the same time, with legitimate sporting and financial goals, it was impossible to increase everyone if we wanted to keep the Salary Cap. So choices had to be made.
»An explanation supported by Jacky Lorenzetti. "Teddy Baubigny (Toulon) and Yoan Tanga (La Rochelle), for example, left for salary offers of almost double what we could offer them. It's more of a choice of money on their part. But these departures confirm that we are right to focus on training. We have to continue to develop good players because we are still being taken from them. And if we want to stay in the nails of the Salary cap...
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