According to Christophe Dugarry, member of the RMC Sport Dream Team, Rennes offered a huge salary to Seko Fofana who signed a five-year contract last week. It would also be very high for Brice Samba, Lens goalkeeper ardently courted by the Breton club.
Rennes has visibly pulled out all the stops to get out of the slump in Ligue 1. In the show Rothen s'igne on RMC on Monday, Christophe Dugarry declared that the Breton club had offered an astronomical salary to Seko Fofana (29), including his signature for five years was made official last week. The statement by Dugarry, 1998 world champion, started from a debate… on Montpellier's interest in Wissam Ben Yedder.
The idea made Christophe Dugarry, member of the RMC Dream Team, jump, surprised to see the MHSC able to pay a potentially imposing salary to the French international striker. An absurdity according to the world champion who denounces a certain hypocrisy of Laurent Nicollin, president of the club, but more generally of French football.
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“When I see Rennes capable of offering 700,000 euros to Fofana, and 500,000 euros to Samba…”
“Laurent Nicollin explained to us that Canal+ (which had not positioned itself in the call for tenders for L1 TV rights last summer, Editor's note) wanted to kill football,” he recalls. “A few weeks later, I heard that Savanier receives 210,000 euros per month. And today, you think of Ben Yedder. You are explaining to me that the person responsible for the bankruptcy of your club is Canal+ but that you are capable of giving 210,000 euros to Savanier You are so cornered by these astronomical salaries to him and others… and you think of Ben. Yedder. You put yourself in this situation by yourself I hope that Ben Yedder will save your club but how can Montpellier give salaries like that? Ben Yedder, you created it.”
He then continued his reasoning on Rennes. “When I see Rennes able to offer 700,000 euros to Seko Fofana, and 500,000 euros to the goalkeeper who will come from Lens (Brice Samba)… But guys, don't be surprised to only have bad ideas and that your club is suffering .” He adds this sentence by targeting several clubs and not Rennes specifically.
The precise figures for Fofana's emoluments have not filtered out but Rennes actually made a big effort to convince the Ivorian midfielder to sign up. The club also spent 20 million euros to recruit him from the Saudi club Al-Nassr. The latter played his first match under his new colors on Friday during the defeat in Nice (3-2).
