What future for Laurent Blanc? The 59-year-old coach was thanked last week by the Saudi club Al-Ittihad after a defeat against the Cristiano Ronaldo team, Al-Nassr (0-2). A decision that may seem brutal since it was the first setback of the teammates of Karim Benzema in Saudi Pro League, after three victories.
The 1998 world champion remained, moreover, in a successful 2024-2025 season, punctuated by the title of best coach of the year after having made the double championship. But this false-pass followed those conceded in Super Cup, this time already against “CR7” and its partners, and in the Asian Champions League before Al-Wahda.
Result: here the release for the former coach of the Blues, put outside by his leaders with a brief press release as a starting gift: “The club's board of directors expresses his sincere thanks and thanks him for the efforts made during the past period, and wishes him full success in his future collaborations. »»
Laurent Blanc at an English cador?
Sleamed by Lyon in September 2023, Laurent Blanc had taken almost two years to bounce back in Saudi Arabia. Will he wait so long to find a new point of fall? Maybe not. According to Sportsboom.comthe former PSG technician would be on the Short-List of Manchester United to replace an increasingly disputed Ruben Amorim.
Old Trafford is a place that the ex-defenseman of the Blues, winner of Euro 2000, knows well since he ended his career with the Reds Devils, where he evolved for two seasons (from 2001 to 2003). And this is not the first time that his name has been circulating there: in 2021, he had been cited among the potential successors of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. What if this time was the right one?
