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Transfer window: RC Lens must forget a “legend”!
Published on June 30, 2024 at 2:00 a.m.
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RC Lens will start a new cycle with the arrival of Will Still as coach. The Belgian was presented at a press conference on Friday and spoke about his choice to join the northern club this summer in place of Franck Haise, qualifying his predecessor as a true legend of RC Lens.
It’s the end of a beautiful love story RC Lens ! Having passed through the Blood and Gold bench between 2020 and 2024, Franck Haise left in the direction ofOGC Nice this summer, and it is therefore the old Rémois Will Still who comes to succeed him. The Belgian coach, who worked for almost two years at Reims stadiumwas presented at a press conference on Friday by his new management, and he first justified his choice towards RC Lens this summer rather than the Premier League.
“They wanted to send me to England, but…”
« The first contacts took place at the beginning of June. They wanted to send me to England but I want to be patient, make the right choices at the right time. It’s essential to build a career of 25-30 years, not 3-4 years. And I told the goalkeeping coach of Reims that if I had to go to a club in France, I would like to go to Lens. It was obvious, I have never hidden my ambitions and my love for the mining villages. I didn’t think about it for very long. Lens is an institution, an incredible story. It’s the most English of French clubs. So my choice was logical. It’s not more complicated than that “, noted Stillwho then paid a vibrant tribute to Franck Stink for his work at RC Lens.
“He’s a Lens legend”
« I will never compare myself to Franck Haise. He is a legend of Lens, of French football. I like the coach, his personality. I am not here to replace him. Hats off to him for everything he has achieved. Going from L2 to C1 is impressive. I simply want to write a new chapter in the club’s history which I hope will be long. “. And now, the RC Lens must therefore forget his legend with Will Still.
