Published on 06/25/2024 at 9:01 p.m.
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While the departure of Lazlo Bölöni is still in negotiations, FC Metz has chosen its future staff. Already at work on the summer transfer window, Stéphane Le Mignan will arrive in Moselle from US Concarneau, with an assistant whose profile is very focused on young people.
FC Metz will try to relaunch a new project in Ligue 2, to find the elite as quickly as possible. As is customary during a descent, clubs separate from their technical staff to remove the memory of the trauma of relegation within their group. The idea is to instill a new state of mind and restore confidence to a workforce that has suffered a resounding failure. Based on this principle, the Messins made the choice to part ways with Laslo Bölöni and to choose a new staff to lead the re-established operation.
Stéphane Le Mignan will succeed Bölöni
If for the moment the Romanian coach is still officially in post, the two parties are in negotiations to find an agreement and formalize their separation. While waiting for the end of this collaboration to be formalized, the Garnets have found the person who will replace him. This is Stéphane Le Mignan, former coach of US Concarneau according to the newspaper L’Equipe. The 50-year-old man is close to the new sporting director of the Mosellans, Frédéric Arpinon. The former assistant to Christian Gourcuff in Qatar notably achieved the feat of bringing Concarneau up to Ligue 2 during the 2022-2023 season, for the first time in the club’s history. Finally 19th in Ligue 2, the Breton club moved down to the National level, notably due to a very complicated end to the season (1 victory in the last 14 days). Mignan will arrive in Moselle with Mickaël Delestrez, again according to the daily, currently technical director of the training center and U19 coach at Toulouse Football Club.
Mignan will have the opportunity to show that he has the ability to lead a group with high ambitions, and prove that the leaders of FC Metz were right to trust him.
