Stade Rennais, is anything?

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By: Manu Tournoux

The completely crazy transfer window of Stade Rennais is a lot of talk. The Bretons bought and sold in turn this winter, and that makes people talk.

There are some who did not take their Monday. We think of the medical service of Stade Rennais, which has chained control visits, and of the club's communication team, which has multiplied the posts for recruits.

In total, the Breton club completed no less than 10 arrivals this winter (Samba, Fofana, Furuhashi, Brassier …), including 6 on Monday day (Rouault, Al-Tamari, I.KonĂ© …). With 75 million euros invested this winter, Stade Rennais is the second club to have spent the most in Europe on this transfer window, behind Manchester City. Is it reasonable?

“It often happens like that in amateur clubs, denounced Vincent Moscato this Tuesday in his program on RMC. They don't work, it's not their job so they try to do almost and sometimes they are wrong. »»

A real failure for Rennes

In Lyon, we remember having been accused of distorting the championship, in this case the race for maintenance, after an expensive recruitment in January 2024. This is the case this season for Rennes, which is a barragist. And it is above all proof of the flop in last summer recruitment: out of the 8 players who left this winter, 6 had been brought back six months earlier by the sports director Frederic Massara and his team.

“There is a real failure of the new leaders,
Observes Eric Di Meco. They limit the breakage by having sold well. If they associate Beye with their recruitment, it can be interesting for next year. They may have anticipated their summer transfer window. »» They did not unemployment anyway …