Paulo Fonseca, the coach of Lille, expressed his dissatisfaction with the way his club managed the transfer window.
Fifth in the last year of Ligue 1, LOSC aims to do better this season. But do the Mastiffs have the means? According to Paulo Fonseca, their coach, this is not the case.
Fonseca is (already) giving up
Lille obtained the reinforcement of 8 new players, in addition to the returns of the returns of loans of Zedadka and Yazici. Confirmed players like Bentaleb and Umtiti have left their suitcases in the north and the promising Icelandic Haraldsson has also signed. But for the Portuguese coach this is clearly not enough.
” I am really disappointed. We have to be realistic and I have to speak with honesty. We don’t have the capacity to beat the other teams, to have the same objectives as them.” he said on Saturday. A message that is similar to a reproach made to his management, guilty in his eyes of not having gone to seek the reinforcements he demanded.
Last June, Fonseca was approached by OM to succeed Igor Tudor on the bench. LOSC did not want to release him. The Lusitanian coach must perhaps have begun to regret this outcome.
In addition to the championship, LOSC will have the European Cup to play this season. The Mastiffs are engaged in the Europa Conference League. They will face Slovan Bratislava, Olimpja Ljubljana and Klaksvik there.
