TFC: Will Rhys Healey stay in Toulouse? A story between the striker, Philippe Montanier and… a radiator!
While his future seems to be written far from Toulouse, the English striker scored his first goal in Ligue 1, Sunday August 14, and showed his determination.
If most politicians rely on pens to find the salient phrases of their speech, this is much less true for football coaches.
We can therefore imagine that Philippe Montanier, who has always had a sense of the formula, racked his brains himself to invent the one he took pleasure in serving twice on Sunday August 14, the first time at the microphone of Prime Video and the second in a press conference in front of a skewer of amused journalists: “Every evening, I go to Rhys Healey’s to attach it to the radiator, and I hope that no one will find the key to detach it.”
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Way for the Toulouse coach to say how much his English striker, author of his first goal in Ligue 1 on the lawn of Troyes, means to him. However, we know that during the transfer window, the radiators are not always as solid as we would like.
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Injured in the adductor and therefore invisible on the pitch during almost all of the preparation, Rhys Healey nevertheless stirred up the Toulouse summer. At the end of the contract in June 2023, the top scorer in Ligue 2 for the season dragged his spleen for a long time as the club considered parting with him, and ended up rejecting an extension offer that was slow to come. Asked about his future, number 9 logically kicks in: “I’m under contract until 2023, I’m still here. I don’t listen to rumours: football is football, we don’t know what will happen For now, I’m giving everything for the team.”
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Sunday, the 27-year-old Englishman gave proof of this on the pitch, with a resounding start against Estac and a sublime goal to seal the victory for Toulouse. “It’s a but which is good for confidence , after a very light preparation. I am happy. Physically, I feel good, I have good hopes of being able to play a whole match quickly”, announces Healey, put in competition at the forefront of the attack with the Dutch rookie Thijs Dallinga.
“Between us, it’s a competition even, appreciates the native of Manchester. It’s always beneficial for a striker to have competition. He’s a good player, he’s young and I talk to him a lot to try to help him, because I’ve been playing in France for 2 years now.”
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For how much longer ? While several English clubs have come forward to repatriate him, the hypothesis of a departure from Healey seems to be gaining momentum. If it is not certain that his performance on the lawn of Troyes can change the situation, Rhys Healey seems determined to fight for the TFC. Just until someone finds the key to the radiator.