At this rate, Didier Deschamps will come back to train in Ligue 1, to have the pleasure of meeting his group of 2018 World Champions every weekend. After Paul Pogba in Monaco and Olivier Giroud in Lille, it is the RC Lens's turn to offer the pleasure of welcoming a winner of the World Cup and former glory of our championship in his workforce, in the person of Florian Thauvin.
According to our information, the Sang-et-Or club has managed to find an agreement with the Udinese for the transfer of the 32-year-old French attacking midfielder against 6 million euros. A happy outcome which rewards the work of the Lensoise management, which had already approached the player in the previous months. It could not be done before, it is now acted, Thauvin will return well to Ligue 1, he who had illuminated Bastia and OM during the first part of his career.
Thauvin wanted to come back in L1
While he was ready to stay in Udine, who had extended him for a year, Thauvin was seduced by the challenge offered by his friend Jean-Louis Leca, the former goalkeeper who became a sports director. Namely a preponderant role, at the heart of the game and the cloakroom, a bit like the guide of this young team and full of ambitions, all supported a 3 -year contract. A good duration for a player of this age.
Thauvin therefore found a point of fall that suits him, he who often declared that he wanted to come back to play in League 1. Lens maintained the contact and can thus make this big blow, all the more important since he needed to strengthen himself offensively. There is now only to hope that Thauvin will be as effective as it was on the side of the Udinese, where he finished the last season with 9 goals and 6 assists in 26 matches.
