[Mercato] OGC Nice would have positioned itself for Joris Chotard with an oral offer

This is information that Marc Mechenoua, journalist, has just published The Parisianon Twitter. According to him, and while the winter transfer window will soon enter its first week, OGC Nice and Montpellier Hérault have entered into negotiations for an upcoming transfer of Joris Chotard. If the Riviera have already registered the signing of Baptiste Santamaria in midfield in the form of a loan with an option to buy, they wish to anticipate next season by securing the recruitment of Pailladin. In this sense, a first oral offer would have been transmitted for €3.5m with bonuses, but with the loan of Joris Chotard to the MHSC until the end of the season. A relatively low amount but an interesting setup in the meager hopes of maintaining Grammont's side.

However, Mohamed Toubache-Ter immediately contradicted this information. He reports in fact that if the offer did indeed exist, it is starting to date and goes back precisely before the Nice recruitment of Santamaria, recorded last Wednesday. A leak to the press in an attempt to cover up a visibly dead file.

An offer that Montpellier had also refused since clearly, the Hérault management is hoping for €6m and bonuses for its player trained at the club. The journalist The Team Loic Tanzi, subsequently, shared the same information without ruling out that this could change in the coming days. Let us remember that during the summer, Bruno Carotti had refused in the last moments €7m and €2m in bonuses, hoping for a final outbidding.

Let's hope for the next few hours that Joris Chotard has a good head in the Pailladin jersey as a complex trip to Toulouse presents itself.