While Antoine Koumbouaré signed his official return to the FC Nantes bench, Raymond Domenech commented on the news with a touch of humor.
If Olympique de Marseille and its Lyon counterpart have already changed coaches several times this season, FC Nantes has just caught up with them. The Loire-Atlantique club decided this week to thank Jocelyn Gourvennec for appointing the returning Antoine Koumbouaré. Like OM and OL, Nantes is therefore on its third coach since last August. Former (and very brief) coach of the Waldemar Kita club during the 2020-2021 season, Raymond Domenech had fun with the situation.
Himself replaced by Antoine Koumbouaré after only forty-six days on the bench. Canariesthe one who is today a consultant for the channel The Team had a delayed outing on Sunday evening. “ That's good, because maybe I can come back now. » And the former coach of the Blues continues, always with a little irony: “ With Nantes, there are still a lot of things that we don't see happening. There is special management. It's like that. »
Fired but all paid
However, and regaining his seriousness, Raymond Domenech wanted to talk about President Kita. “ We can say whatever we want. He fires the coaches, but he pays them all. There's no problem, he pays. He breaks the contract, he writes a check. It's his money. Ultimately, it is one of the presidents who can say: 'I do what I want, it's my money'. » As for the decision itself to thank Jocelyn Gourvennec, just a few months after separating from Pierre Aristouy, Estelle Denis' ex expressed a reservation.
“ What is not wise is to fire coaches over time. As soon as there is a little uncertainty, a moment of worry, suddenly there is panic. » Already engaged in a rescue mission that he carried out in 2021 with the validated retention of FC Nantes in Ligue 1, Antoine Koumbouaré will have to do just as well this season. Eight days before the end of the championship, Nantes is sixteenth and a play-off, one point behind Lorient (15th).
