Laure Boulleau really doesn’t understand why Steve Mandanda is the victim of such relentlessness. Sunday evening, the Channel Football Club returned to the catastrophic end of the career of the former OM captain at Stade Rennais. The 2018 world champion, after a nightmarish first part of the season, must lose his number 1 place in the coming days. Negotiations with RC Lens for the transfer of Brice Samba are still ongoing, despite a clash between the two clubs last Saturday (while a 15 million euro deal was on track).
“I understand that it drops a little in performance, on the other hand, to target the goalkeeper as recruitment, for me, it’s… They have a catastrophic defense! You’re going to target Mandanda even though he’s not bad! It should not be abused. When we say that he is at the end of his cycle, it means that he is less good than before, I think that he was more than doing the job”launched Laure Boulleau, during the Canal+ show presented by Hervé Mathoux.
Laure Boulleau would keep Mandanda…
Among the other speakers of the CFCif Mickaël Landreau, through corporatism, hopes for a “extraordinary end of career” to Mandanda because he “love the person, the professional player that he is”Bertrand Latour recalled – rightly – that the 39-year-old goalkeeper had cost Stade Rennais several goals. “So he’s the one responsible for Rennes’ results at the moment? »protested Boulleau, before concluding: “I am Rennes, I recruit a player on each line but I leave Mandanda alone until the end of the season “.
After the end of the course recorded by the Breton leaders (but delayed by the about-face of RC Lens, therefore), Mandanda made a ridiculous error for his possible last Ligue 1 match last Friday, in Nice, at the opening of the 16th day of Ligue 1. The player trained in Le Havre sent a restart directly to the feet of Sofiane Diop on the second goal of the Aiglons, winners 3-2 against Rennais now 13th in the standings (with two points of more than the current roadblocker).
