The year 2024 ended badly for Nicolas Seube. The French coach could not resist the catastrophic first half of the season for Caen, sixteenth in Ligue 2 with nine defeats and three draws in sixteen days. So he was officially dismissed from his position on Sunday. A departure that Stade Malherbe announced in a very brief press release, while the former midfielder (45 years old) spent his entire career with the Norman club.
A brutal divorce denounced by Brahim Thiam, for whom the now ex-coach of the SMC “is undoubtedly the emblematic player of the last 30 years in Caen”.
Questioned by France Bleu, the consultant does not mince his words against the management of the club, which has belonged to Kylian Mbappé since last September. “It’s as if we had kicked Nicolas Seube in the butt by telling him: ‘Go away!’ In fact it’s just disrespectful”he blurted.
“I am not saying that Nicolas Seube, through his time at the club, his life at Malherbe, had a totem of immunity ad vitam aeternam. Because the results are not good. But I don’t even take that into account. I’m just wondering: is this the new Malherbe? It’s forgetting a little the history, the values of this club”balances the former defender (50 years old), who played for four seasons at Stade Malherbe (2005-2009) before ending his career with Reims.
The Mbappé family singled out
“Afterwards, I’m half-surprised. This decision does not surprise mehe continues. I’m also not in the world of care bears to be, sometimes, disappointed in people and humans. But still, I would like to know who ordered to communicate in this way. I have no words to describe it. I call it a rag against a guy to whom we must take a big tip of the hat and about whom, perhaps, all people will talk to their children and grandchildren. »
The president of Caen, Ziad Hammoud, explained in vain that
“the shareholder” – Kylian Mbappé, therefore – had not contacted the Portuguese technician Bruno Baltazar in advance to replace him, Brahim Thiam is not fooled:
“I think that from the moment Pierre-Antoine Capton (the president of the supervisory board) sold 80% of the club’s shares to the Mbappé family, the future of Nicolas Seube was in dotted lines. This is my belief. The future would not have been made with him. »
