An opener in Clermont, episode 63. Looking for a number 10 of international caliber to take over from Benjamin Urdapilleta, the ASM is prospecting in all directions.
Except that these sought-after profiles are not common in the streets. Despite everything, a well-known name in world rugby returns to the forefront this week: George Ford.
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If the Argentinian Tomas Albornoz is also mentioned, the Englishman with 102 caps would have reconsidered the great proposal made by Clermont, according to La Montagne. An XXL offer, superior to what English rugby can offer today.
A lead all the more credible as an English journalist very close to the transfers of the country's stars even announced that Ford would play in the Top 14 next year.
So will the man with nearly 2,000 points in the English championship be playing at Michelin next summer? There would still be the question of Ford's eligibility to resolve, he who will no longer be selectable if he comes to France.
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But at 31 and once again behind Marcus Smith in the pecking order of the country's fly-half, perhaps the Sale fly-half will make a drastic decision for his future.
After Farrell, Vunipola, Tuilagi, Lawes and the others, he would then be the umpteenth English star to arrive in France in the last 2 years.
