RUGBY. ”Refusing such an offer was bullshit”, this former Habs regrets having said no to Toulouse
RUGBY. Top 14. Damian Penaud: two other clubs met (and it’s not Toulouse)Few players have said no to Toulouse stadium. Damian Penaud could also succumb to the Haut-Garonne sirens and leave Clermont for the Walloon. For now, the international winger has not yet made his choice. Will ASM be able to convince him to stay and win new titles? Very attached to the Auvergne formation, he could decide to stay. But won’t he regret it? Before him, another international made this decision. Almost twenty years later, it still leaves a bitter taste in his mouth. “To refuse such an offer, in hindsight, was bullshit. And I regret it today“, entrusts Benjamin Boyet Going through The Team. Selected with the Blues between 2006 and 2008, he spent most of his career at Bourgoin before leaving Isère for the Basque Country to join Bayonne from 2010 to 2013. RUGBY. Why Penaud in Toulouse would be bad for the Top 14? The clear opinion of this internationalBut like many, he would have dreamed of playing for Toulouse. “I admired Stade Toulousain between 1997 and 2004, not to mention that there was my friend Yann Delaigue at the opening. In 2004, I was contacted by the leaders of Toulouse but I did not follow up, out of parochialism, while I admired this club and this team.” In the years that followed, Toulouse won the European Cup (2005) and the Brennus in 2008. What feed some regrets, it is true. If by chance Penaud chooses to stay and Toulouse, or another of his contenders win titles, he could also regret it. It will also be the same if the ASM climbs to the top. Such is the life of the professional sportsman who must make career choices.