Despite a complicated transfer window, Brest shines in Europe. A player surprised everyone by leaving the club to change his life at the very end of the transfer window.
Stade Brestois is clearly the surprise team at the start of this season in Europe, after having had this status in Ligue 1 last season. The Bretons have just won their first two Champions League matches, even though they were in the 4th hat and we didn’t give much of their skin. Here is the Armorican club in second place in the general ranking, and it is all the more an achievement since despite its place on the podium last year, Brest lost many important players this summer, without necessarily compensating for everything.
It was indeed a big surprise for the supporters to see Jérémy Le Douaron, pure Breton and decisive player in recent seasons, slam the door in the wake of the Champions League draw to sign for Palermo, in Serie B. See such a player leaving when it was time to discover Europe through the front door surprised many, but the player recovered in Saint-Brieuc by SB29 justified himself in the columns of So Foot .
The Champions League, no thanks
« As I told my loved ones, I am 26 years old and I needed to discover something other than France. An adventure abroad, indeed. And I’m very happy to have left. I know there was the Champions League with Brest, so it wasn’t necessarily an easy decision to make. But I got this call from Palermo at the beginning of July and I really felt that they wanted to have me. They insisted that they were counting on me to come back and that I was part of the future of the club. A club like Palermo, which doesn’t give up until the end of the transfer window, which continues to send messages, that made me think. Especially in recent months in Brest, I had perhaps lost this recognition that I may have had before. And then at 26, I wanted to see something else”justified Jérémy Le Douaron, who enjoys watching his former teammates shine in the Champions League. Enough to make him smile, while he has not yet been decisive with the Sicily club, which is stuck in the first part of the Serie B table for the moment.
