Clément Chantôme has known almost everything at PSG. Landed with the Red and Blue at only 13 years old, the native of Sens spent fifteen years in the Parisian club, bordering on the relegation in 2008 before seeing QSI landed three years later and winning two champion titles (2013, 2015).
His story with PSG could also have ended in the summer of 2008 when Oenger Wenger made one of the priorities of his recruitment. “I had a lot of proposals, I even had at Arsenal who was insistent, I had met Wenger. And it was Sébastien Bazin (one of the leaders of PSG Editor's note) who said no, he told Anne-Laure Bonnet for PSG Originals.
Suddenly, we negotiated, I extended my contract, thanks to that I extended well. In my head, I was almost gone, more Arsenal was going well, there were a lot of French people. I thought a lot, after Wenger is not in the conflict so when Bazin told him that it was impossible, he did not insist. »»
“Afterwards, I saw two complicated seasons for me. The year we play the maintenance, I repaired just behind Pauleta. With the Guen, we leave in the same way, but it's not my post. He tells me that I was not decisive and therefore that I was going to be replacement, he continued. In addition, Makélélé had just come. At that time, I told myself that I may have made a mistake by extending. I had trouble finding my place. It did not go very well with the assistant Le Guen, at some point it left a bit far during training. »»
“This internship was any big anything”
A year later, Clément Chantôme was still at the club when QSI landed. The beginning of an amazing adventure. “At the beginning, not many things changed, because Leonardo did not happen right away. We go to the internship in Portugal, and there we see that it changes. Leonardo comes to tell us about things. And in the locker room, we were betting on which players would come. It was progressive, the change was not brutal ”he said about it before explaining that Antoine Kombouaré did not clearly imagine staying on the bench.
“This internship was anything big. Kombouaré thinks that he will go directly, so he was completely letting go, he made small bridges etc. We hadn't done anything during this preparation ”, he revealed. Antoine Kombouaré was going to stay in place until the truce. But despite a leader in Ligue 1, the Kanak was finally going to be thanked. Not surprisingly.
“We both knew what was going to happen and that whatever the work I could provide, the end was scheduled”, Had he said in his book “Antoine Kombouaré: Words of a Kanak footballer” published in 2014. The press release fell a few days before Christmas, indicating that
“PSG and his coach Antoine Kombouaré want to specify that they have initiated serene discussions which should succeed soon and which will allow everyone to preserve their interests.”
But if thanks to the victory won the day before in Saint-Etienne had enabled PSG to ensure the title of autumn champion, the slap received against the OM at the Vélodrome, the elimination against Dijon in the League Cup and that in the Europa Lega had too weakened the former central defender.
