Tenth in Ligue 1 last season, the Rennais return to La Piverdière this Thursday for physical tests before the return to the field scheduled for Monday. Julien Stéphan will have a small group of players to start with. Steve Mandanda, Gauthier Gallon, Warmed Omari, Mahamadou Nagida, Lorenz Assignon, Baptiste Santamaria, Enzo Le Fée, Azor Matusiwa, Ludovic Blas, Benjamin Bourigeaud, Martin Terrier and Mathis Lambourde are expected, plus a few young people from the reserve.
Jeanuël Belocian (Bayer Leverkusen) and Fabian Rieder (at the Euro with Switzerland, loaned with an option to buy to VfB Stuttgart) are no longer in Rennes and Arthur Theate (Belgium) and Bertug Yildirim (Turkey) are at the Euro in Germany. Arnaud Kalimuendo, Adrien Truffert, Désiré Doué (France), Ibrahim Salah (Morocco) and Wilson Samaké (Mali) are preparing for the Olympic Games, Jérémy Jacquet for the U19 Euro and other players have extra holidays after having extended the season with their selection in June: Guéla Doué (Côte d’Ivoire), Christopher Wooh (Cameroon), Amine Gouiri (Algeria), Matthis Abline (Toulon tournament), Grégory Lembet (Central African Republic) and Alidu Seidu (Ghana).
As for goalkeeper Dogan Alemdar, he will be absent for many months after suffering a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee on Sunday with the Turkish selection.
