How Toulouse and Philippe Montanier will insert the four winter recruits
If he has sometimes made knots in the brain to compose his team this season, for lack of solutions in certain positions, Philippe Montanier is not about to stop gamberger, but for the opposite reason. By recruiting four players this winter, Toulouse has a larger workforce. Which mechanically, in the long term, will contradict his trainer to make choices between several former players with an uncertain future and recruits in disparate states of form.
The “double effect” wanted by management in this transfer window, with “investments for both the short and long term”, could therefore cause frustration in a group made up of twenty-one nationalities. A hypothesis swept away by Montanier: “I’ve never had a problem in training with the investment of players, but it’s true that when you get stronger, the competition is tougher. We are going to have a lot of matches, with the Coupe de France (Téfécé will face Reims, in the round of 16, on February 8). This will help to better manage their repetition. We are ready to challenge on all fronts. »
Philippe Montanier, the TFC coach. (F.Lancelot/The Team)
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” The only drawbackspecifies a close friend of the club, is that it can block the young which were beginning to hatch. » Like the versatile defenders Kévin Keben (19 years old, 10 games in L1 this season) and Christian Mawissa (17 years old, 2 games).
The Norwegian Warren Kamanzi, quickly integrated and already in shape, and the Chilean Gabriel Suazo, who has not played since mid-November but does not hide his impatience, will quickly integrate the rotation of the sides, including Issiaga Sylla, kept in the ‘waiting for a transfer, will soon no longer be part of the left.
The gradual returns from injury of Mikkel Desler and Denis Genreau, who do not wish to move despite the arrival of a competitor in their sector, will also offer more solutions to Montanier. In the middle, the purchase of the Swiss Vincent Sierro, “the most ready” physically, is perceived as a passing of the baton with Branco van den Boomen, whose departure at the end of the season is taking shape. Until then, they will share playing time with captain Brecht Dejaegere, suspended this Sunday against Racing, and young Finn Naatan Skyttä (20), used in the last four games.
At all levels, places will be expensive, including in attack, once Saïd Hamulic, the last to arrive, will be able to play. Even if his international transfer certificate was sent on Friday, the former Bosnian striker from Stal Mielec (Polish D1), short of form, was not selected this weekend. While waiting for the return of Rhys Healey, who resumed training on Friday, Thijs Dallinga and Ado Onaiwu will still try to score points.