“I take responsibility for the decision I made to take responsibility for the team away from Jono Gibbes because I assumed that our response capacity could not be done in the short time we have left.
Jean-Michel Guillon, president of Clermont
In the morning, the president of ASM Jean-Michel Guillon returned to a press conference on the departure of Jono Gibbes, recorded in front of the players Monday morning at dawn: “We had been quite clear with Jono when we established, together, the club’s ambitions for this year and the following ones. We couldn’t settle for being like the previous year in the middle of the table […] This ambition being set, we find ourselves in December with Jono, telling ourselves that the coming month would be key. Very clearly, together we are targeting a certain number of matches, Brive, Toulouse… (two matches lost by ASM).
From there, we discuss with Jono in complete confidence with the desire to see a before and after because our performance is not at the level of what we want. The matches that followed (Perpignan and Leicester) did not bring us the desired answers. […] I take responsibility for the decision I made to remove responsibility for the team from Jono Gibbes because I assumed that our ability to react could not be done in the short time we have left to react. . »
For the coming week in South Africa, the team will be led by Jared Payne, hitherto defense coach. Gibbes’ successor? ” We want, in the coming days, to be able to present the new coach of ASM Clermont Auvergnehe simply commented. I’m not in front of you with a name, Jono deserves better than that for everything he has brought to the club since his arrival. »
According to our information, it is therefore Christophe Urios who is on track to take over and lead his fifth club, after Bourgoin-Jallieu (2005-2007), Oyonnax (2007-2015), Castres (2002-2005 and 2015-2019 ) and UBB (2019-2022), where he was dismissed in November.