A disappointing place in the soft belly of the championship, three different coaches (Julien Stéphan, Jorge Sampaoli and Habib Beye), irregular performances and a plethoric workforce that showed its limits: the Rennais stadium was one of the great disappointments of the 2024-25 season.
The Breton club will be expected at the turn to find a place more in line with its ambitions. Two men embody the renewal: coach Habib Beye, who has already started his project, and the sports director Loïc Désiré, arrived this summer with solid experience.
Stade Rennais: Beye will remain, the project is built around it
Questioned in the columns of Ouest-France, the Breton leader has already fixed the main lines of this offseason.
Closed door for 2 major club hopes
Regarding the workforce, Rennes is preparing to make a wide degreasing. “Today he remains about forty players under contract, we will finish at 22 or 24,” launched Loïc Désiré. We could go very quickly for some players, but we don't want to do anything financially. I am confident, a team was made available with the legal service that helps me a lot, the president who is involved. It is not only Loïc Désiré, but the whole club that will work so that this happens as best as possible ”.
On the other hand, in the departure department, some players will be held insistently, such as young Djaoui Cissé and Jérémy Jacquet, revelations of this second part of the season.
“This is the priority, we will keep them. Djaoui, we see that what he does today is very high level. Jérémy too. We will keep them, it is also the basis of the team for the group's constitution in the coming weeks ”. The message has passed.
