In Nantes, there is a slate to erase. Since the beginning of the summer, the Loire club has pursued the facade restoration of its workforce, marked by the departures of many tauliers, undoubtedly blurred by the last struggles for maintenance after having known the joys of the epics in the Coupe de France and in the Europa League in 2023. Six holders of the last eleven aligned by Kombouaré in Ligue 1 have thus left (Moses Simon, Douglas Augusto, Douglas Augusto, Douglas Augusto Jean-Charles Castelletto, Pedro Chirivella, Nicolas Pallois and Sorba Thomas), while Zézé joined Neom and that Matthis Abbline should also change his air.
These sales, estimated at just over 40 million euros (not to mention the € 2.5 million and € 1.3 million linked to the sales of Rongier and Merlin in Rennes), made it possible to feed the club drawer of the club … but it is not provided that Nantes makes Folies on the market. In view of the fragility of the context of TV rights, the FCN strives to recruit in the form of loans, or at a lower cost. It is in this form that Amady Camara (Sturm Graz) and the Swedish winger Mayckel Ladho (Alkmaar) have arrived in recent weeks, and it is also in this configuration that the next recruit should happen.
Bella-Kotchap arrives on loan with purchase option
As recently revealed The teamNantes had made Armel Bella-Kotchap a track to strengthen his defense. It must be said that the preparation of the club (4 defeats, 1 victory) was not reassuring, like the first outings of the recruit Udos Radakovic, invited to leave the club a month after his arrival. According to Fabrizio Romano, Nantes dug the track leading to German international, until he finished his arrival this Friday evening.
Revealed in Bochum, the 23 -year -old defender then asserted himself in Southampton, and his great performance in the Premier League had even opened the doors of the Mannschaft (2 selections). His progression had then been hampered by injuries, hence his last two almost white seasons (6 games with the PSV in 23/24, 5 with Southampton last season). Bella-Kotchap will now have the opportunity to revive in France, where he is about to land in the form of a loan with option to buy.
