three extensions on the right track at Stade Toulousain
Zapping World Fifteen Shield of Brennus, XV of the Rose, World Cup 2023…
Damian Penaud is signed with Union Bordeaux-Bègles. And this transfer will, indirectly, decide the fate of several players from another club: Stade Toulousain. Indeed, the Rouge et Noir club was one of the very serious candidates to recruit the player from the XV of France. But for that, it would have been necessary to “make room” at the level of three quarters of the workforce, salary cap requires.
But if we have heard more and more about the Bordeaux track to the detriment of the Toulouse track in recent days, it is also because the trend wanted, as the Midi Olympique recently indicated, that the Stade Toulousain be in discussions with three of its players to extend them: Matthis Lebel, Lucas Tauzin and Dimitri Delibes.
The departure of these three boys would have allowed the arrival of Penaud. But the Stade Toulousain being a club very attached to the players from its Youth teams, and the performances of Matthis Lebel and Dimitri Delibes being more than commendable, the current leader of the Top 14 is therefore doing everything possible to complete these extensions. Even chosen for Lucas Tauzin, who was not at the Toulouse training center but is still part of the club’s young shoots.
to summarize
Damian Penaud is signed to UBB. And this XXL recruitment of the Girondin club may not mean that several extensions could take place very quickly at Stade Toulousain, which is therefore no longer in the race to recruit the international.