SM Caen. For Nuno Da Costa, announced in Auxerre, Malherbe “did not give up”
By Aline Chatel
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updated on 5 Aug 22 at 12:17
Thursday, August 4, 2022, L’Equipe article did not suffer from the conditional: “Nuno Da Costa joins Auxerre”. The sports media mentioned an agreement around a two-year contract plus an optional season between the striker and the club promoted in Ligue 1.
The day after, Nottingham Post website however, a very different version was put forward. Nuno Da Costa, who still belongs to Nottingham Forest, has finally decided to join Caen.
“The L1 has much more strength than the L2”
This “very complicated file”, as Yohan Eudeline describes it, will it give rise to a coup de theater as the transfer window likes them so much? The sports director of Stade Malherbe Caen did not show immense optimism this Friday noon, when we contacted him.
We didn’t give up. In fact the maximum. But there are things against done on can’t wrestle. Ligue 1 has much more strength than Ligue 2, whether on a sporting or financial level.
“We always paid attention to him”
Yohan Eudeline, who obtained the loan from Nuno Da Costa at the very end of the 2021 transfer window, still wants to believe it. “Nuno knows our project, the people, the supporters, the stadium, the city, the players. We have always paid attention to him and that is priceless when you are a player. He knows what we want, the link has never been broken. »
The DS of Stade Malherbe says it with a smile: he never abdicates. But on the front of the attack, Caen obviously looked at other profiles. “Ahead on several issues, but today, on quality players in attack. A balance has been found. »
We will soon be fixed
Caen, however, aspires to even more the sector. There are three weeks left for the Norman leaders to complete the expected recruitment. The choice of Nuno Da Costa will obviously be preponderant. “His decision will not be long in coming,” imagines Yohan Eudeline. And in football, the truth of today is not always that of yesterday…
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