“The page is not turned at all.”
Pierre Aristouy still has his departure from FC Nantes in his throat.
Ousted from the Nantes bench after 13 days, while his team occupied an honest 11th position, the French coach returned to his departure, which he considers "premature", in the columns of Sud-Ouest.
“I'm not going to go into details, but when it's November, we're 10th (11th in reality) and we're fired, I consider it an injustice,” he explains to daily.
Aristouy arrived at the end of last season to replace Antoine Kombouaré to keep the club in the elite, a mission he had accomplished.
“A lot of things were not done correctly”
With 15 points in 12 games, he occupied 11th place in the Ligue 1 standings. “There was no urgency to make such a decision,” he repeats, citing the examples of other coaches in difficulty, Régis Le Bris in Lorient or Patrick Vieira in Strasbourg, who “benefited from the trust of their leaders”, unlike him.
“Honestly, there will always be bitterness about this.
There are lots of things that were not done correctly,” he regrets today.
Pierre Aristouy is still an employee of the club after 7 years with FC Nantes.
He had been at the head of the U19s then the reserves before taking the reins of the first team.
He is now engaged “in a procedure” with the club before “a definitive separation”.
“There are things to be resolved with FC Nantes that have not yet been resolved,” Aristouy develops.
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Pierre Aristouy: “My departure from FC Nantes?
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The coach has not given up hope of finding a bench: “When it's brutal, it's always difficult to recover.
(…) One thing is certain, and which we find hard to do without, it is the adrenaline of everyday life.
It is obvious that being on the bench of an L1 team in front of 50,000 people, or being in charge of a youth or amateur team in front of 200 people, the excitement and adrenaline are not the same .
It has an addictive side.
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For the moment, his successor Jocelyn Gourvennec is not doing any better.
The Canaries still occupy 12th place with 22 points in 21 days, or 3 small units more than Lorient, current play-off.