“It is like our season. I speak for my part, but when we start a new season not in the right energy – everyone knows what happened during this transfer window for several players, that’s what it gives Today. We will fight to the end, but we harvest that what we sow ”. Here is what Alexandre Mendy said, a few minutes after the new shipwreck of SM Caen against Paris FC (2-4), on March 31. With a big heart, the Norman striker finally tried to explain the nightmare season of the residents of the Ornano stadium, relegated since officially in National. An output of meaning that had not failed to react and on which Fayza Lamari, new majority shareholder of the Norman club, has recently returned.
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A hectic and psychologically trying summer
During an interview with Here NormandyKylian’s mother, owner of the club via her investment fund Coalition Capital, did not hesitate to shoot red balls on the native of Toulon. “It was we who made it stay. He is the only player who dried the training and I found it scandalous. I saw him to discuss, but how to find an attacker at 22 goals in mid-August? We went down with him, so without him … We were given a list of attackers, but I thought I was PSG given the prices. He did not necessarily respond, but I found his release inappropriate. He did not train for 2 months so he returned late, but in the meantime, he continued to be paid … I understood his distress, but I am not responsible for what the former president said to him “launched the leader of the Caen training. Strong words ultimately surprising with regard to the chronology of the facts. Firstly, because the Bissau-Guinean international (7 selections) has never “dried” training.
In the start of departure last summer, the top scorer in the history of the Caennais club (ahead of Cyrille Watier) had, in fact, an agreement with his management so as not to take part in the collective sessions. An development – common to all players on departure – who will not have prevented the principal concerned from continuing an individual program for several weeks. On the verge of joining Sunderland in the summer of 2024, the right -hander of 1m84 continued to face the veto of the new Caen management, blocking each beginning of negotiations despite the offers transmitted. Finally constrained to stay in Normandy and necessarily affected by such a outcome, Mendy – determined at the idea of finding a less heavy daily life – then agreed to refoclize on the objectives of SM Caen. “Alexandre Mendy wants to find the grounds, the ball, his passion, namely playing football. Summer was agitated, emotionally complicated, but Alex now aspires to find a healthy environment and serenity. He trained alone for two months, he once again showed a steel mind. He continued to show it despite this difficult context. For Alex, his goal will now remain the same: give everything on the field and help his teammates as well as possible ”told us, as such, his advisor last August.
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What future for Alexandre Mendy?
Back in the Norman jersey, Mendy also scored 4 goals during her first 5 appearances (2 victories, 1 draw, 2 defeats) from the start of the year 2024-2025. A thunderous comeback illustrating the strength of character of the latter. “Alex has never cheated, he is respected by everyone in the locker room, he has always fired his own. His name will remain forever engraved in the history of SM Caen. At the end of last season, when his departure was almost acted, he was acclaimed by the d’Ornano set. Today, during his last entry into play (against the Red Star, editor’s note), he was whistled. It must be understood that the situation particularly affected it. Alex didn’t deserve that. He won respect for supporters through his work and self -denial and necessarily it was something that affected him and his loved ones. He may not have put 22 goals, but his season remains more than honorable and his impact on the field has been considerable “finally confided in his advisor in recent hours. Passed by Bordeaux, Nice, Brest or Guingamp, the Norman striker will have, anywhere, continuously tempted to bring his stone to the building, despite the cataclysmic season lived by the Normans on the collective level.
Author of 11 goals and 3 assists in 33 matches in all competitions, the number 19 could not prevent the fall of the club, red lantern of Ligue 2 before a final trip to Bastia and relegated for several weeks now at the lower level. An industrial catastrophe, today, forcing the high Caen spheres to restructure a historically scheduled club to play in L1 or L2. With this in mind, the future of many players should logically be questioned, starting with that of Alexandre Mendy. Under contract until June 2026, the Norman scorer, appreciated by the locker room and with his experience, remains for the time being a player of Stade Malherbe. But for how long? If it seems difficult to imagine that a club offers a substantial offer in the coming weeks – which had not happened when he was top L2 scorer – freeing the 31 -year -old striker could, however, allow the Caennaise management to save his salary and thus save some employees …
Pub. the 05/05/2025 20:03
– Maj the 05/05/2025 21:04
