At 80.11%, a Putinian score, you declared that you would like to see Franck Haise spend the 2024-2025 season at the head of RC Lens.
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Your wish should be granted. Asked last night at a press conference about his future, the coach implicitly confirmed that he would be there when training resumed on June 26.
The “RCLens-skeptics” will obviously say that “one day’s words are worthless the next day” or that “promises only bind those who listen to them”, but in any case, Franck Haise was specific enough about his intentions for us to doubt his words.
“I have a contract until 2027” insisted the Lensois coach. “I have been preparing for several weeks and months for the future on young professionals, recruitment, on the squad. I prepared the pre-season camps, the preparation planning, the friendly matches, I continue to improve the staff and I do everything as if I were the coach when the restart takes place on June 26.”
As if the answer wasn’t clear enough, Franck Haise added : “If I get wet on all these construction sites, it’s because I still have prospects of still working for the club.”
To make this decision, Franck Haise would he have received guarantees, in particular on the squad for the next season? “Who can have guarantees on a workforce in terms of number, quality, amount of transfers, no one.” replied the coach. “I have been at the club for 7 years, for 4 and a half years with the pros, and my goal is always for the club to move forward, for it to progress. This does not mean improving all the time in results, otherwise we would end up champion this year and we would have nothing left to play for next season.”
Of course, in football business, everything remains possible, but the coach has always been straight in his boots and knowing him, it is completely improbable that his elements of language were just expressed to amuse the gallery.
If we needed further proof that he will indeed be Lensois next season, let us refer to the little sentence ofArnaud Pouillewho responded yesterday to the newspaperTeamwell before the press conference: “Franck Haise will be there in 2024-2025. This week we worked on the next summer recruitment. He is very involved and there are no signals to the contrary as I speak to you.”
