Clément’s ambitious speech before his presentation on Wednesday
New coach of AS Monaco since Monday, Philippe Clement will be presented to the press on Wednesday, at noon, during a conference at the La Turbie training center, where he will then lead, at 3 p.m., his first session. The Belgian coach has already been able to exchange a few words with his new group of players.
French football has been getting to know Philippe Clement, new coach of AS Monaco, since Monday. He will discover it even more on Wednesday, during the press conference organized at noon at the training center of La Turbie. It was there that the Belgian coach met his new players yesterday and addressed his first words to the group in English before observing the training led by Stéphane Nado, coach of the reserve team who had been working as an interim since Niko Kovac left.
An ambitious speech
In his brief speech, the new Monegasque coach insisted on the importance of qualifying for the Champions League at the end of the season, a priority objective of Russian President Dimitri Rybolovlev. An ambition shared by Oleg Petrov, vice-president of Monaco, who sees in Clément “the suitable person to continue logically, and with an intact ambition, the chapter that we opened at the beginning of last season aimed at bringing back the AS Monaco in the elite of French football and on the European scene. “
Philippe had previously been able to exchange individually with a few players to assure them that he has set a key on them for the rest of the season to fulfill the club’s objectives. This is the case, in particular, of the very courted Aurélien Tchouaméni, one of the pillars of the ASM under Niko Kovac, ex-defensive midfielder, a position also occupied by Philippe Clement with the Red Devils (38 selections).
A first session on Wednesday at La Turbie
The French international will have a key role to play within Clement’s team. Paul Mitchell, Monaco’s sporting director, described the Belgian coach as a “modern technician, making his teams play with great intensity and daring, including on a continental scale”.
Precepts of interesting games a priori, that Philippe Clement will be able to distill to his workforce during the first training session that he will lead on Wednesday, at La Turbie, at the stroke of 3 p.m. For his first match, and while a difficult round of 16 in the Coupe de France awaits him against Lens or Lille, he will have to wait for Sunday and a trip to Nantes.