The methods of OGC Nice Ineos version are starting to annoy in Ligue 1. After RC Lens, which had regretted the way in which its sports director Florent Ghisolfi had been recruited just after the start of the season, FC Lorient denounces this Friday the offensive against his trainer, Régis Le Bris.
Appointed last summer for a first coaching position, Le Bris is under contract in Brittany until 2027. However, the leaders of Nice negotiated with him without notifying him, accuses FC Lorient, already burned by the departure of their striker Terem Moffi in the last days of the winter transfer window.
FC Lorient “does not open the door” to Le Bris
“They behaved badly in January. I had received an apology from the boss of Ineos on the Terem Moffi case. They reiterate today and had acted in the same way with RC Lens, ”says President Loïc Féry in a statement from the club. The latter wrote to the Nice club to “remind him of his obligations to respect article 211 of the administrative regulations of the LFP” (which obliges to notify in writing the club from which one plans to buy someone under contract), and assures consider seizing the League and Fifa to “denounce the repeated practices of OGC Nice and request sanctions against the club”.
For his part, Régis Le Bris has warned his president of his desire to leave the club this summer. What the leader did not accept. “Régis Le Bris told me a few days before the last game of the season that he was wondering about being at the end of a cycle with FC Lorient. He asked me to open the door for a departure, which surprised me deeply, says Loïc Féry in the same press release. I reminded him that he had just extended and that I was counting on him. He was aware of being under contract with the club and he also knew that if I did not open the door, no departure would be possible. »
So Lorient is at an impasse, with a coach he wants to keep after his good 10th place in Ligue 1 this season but who for his part no longer has the flame. Difficult in this kind of case to imagine an outcome that pleases all parties.