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A Clermont player for two seasons, Julien Hériteau, who started professionally at SU Agen, was not retained by the Auvergne club. And the three-quarter Gers center, passed through Toulon, has still not found a base for next season.
Julien Hériteau has had two complicated seasons with Clermont. The Jaunards, accustomed to the final stages a few years ago, are now only a shadow of themselves, with a string of poor performances. This year, ASM, stuck in the soft underbelly of the first division ranking, even held on for a while. “I think that ASM is in transition, analyzes the three-quarter center. When I arrived in 2022, it was the Jono Gibbes era, it ended badly. Then Christophe Urios arrived. the first season with this staff, we still have to find automatisms and that collectively we play better It works at times, but sometimes in away matches, it does not work And we narrowly fail on details at home. . This is not obvious.”
“We know from experience that it settles at the end of the season”
Despite a 2023-2024 season with 21 matches in the Clermont jersey (31 match sheets over two seasons), the 29-year-old Gersois, trained at SU Agen, no longer enters into the Auvergne club’s plans for next season and was not retained in the squad for 2024-2025. According to La Montagne, ASM tried to extend his contract in recent weeks, “but the constraint of the salary cap ultimately ruled out a possible extension.”
For several months, the former Agenais has been looking for a base for next season. “For the moment, I don’t know where my future will be. So I’m in the dark. I have a few ideas, but it’s not changing. We know from experience that things settle towards the end of the season. I I’m waiting, maybe there will be an opportunity that will present itself in the Top 14 or in Pro D2”, Julien Heriteau told us last May. At the beginning of June, nothing had changed: “My situation is still pending. I don’t yet know what will happen.”
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Once anticipated in Perpignan, Julien Hériteau claims to have “not necessarily had contact with the USAP, it’s a rumor”. Lately, he has been on the shelves of RC Vannes, which has just been promoted to the Top 14 after being French Pro D2 champion. Could the player, who started at Fleurance, turn to Pro D2? Could he return to SU Agen, the club where he made his professional debut? “I think that one day I would like to come back to SU Agen, the French international (a selection) told us in May. But for the moment, I favor the Top 14 clubs. We all know what a championship it is, so I’d like to stay there as long as possible.”
“Having worked with him as a youth at the SUA, I have good memories of Sébastien Calvet”
“I hope that SU Agen will raise its head to go for the top of the basket next year. There are all these movements of coaches, we don’t necessarily realize it but in a collective, it’s overwhelming. Afterwards, there are young people, we have to rely on that […] I think the arrival of Sébastien Calvet will be positive for SU Agen. He’s a guy who knows the house. He proved that he was good at what he did and I think that can only do the club good. Having known him when I was young, I have good memories of him.”
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