New Year's Eve which precedes a change of year means for them a form of freedom. Or future anxiety, it depends on how each person experiences their contractual situation. It is clearly not the same for everyone, but for these eleven players, there should be a future in the club next season 2025-2026. Unless they hang up their crampons, as Nicolas Pallois could do at FC Nantes or Steve Mandanda, if he remains at Stade Rennais at the end of this off-season.
Jonathan David headlines players at the end of their contract in Ligue 1
They form the 11th Ligue 1 player at the end of their contract at the end of the current season, i.e. on June 30, 2025. As of the start of the new year, FIFA authorizes them to freely negotiate their future without constraint from the clubs. who hire them. Of all, it is by far the Canadian striker from LOSC Lille, Jonathan David who is the most desired. Even if there is still hope among the Mastiffs, his career seems to be taking shape elsewhere than in the North and probably elsewhere than in France.
A bench provided to complete the collective
This collective combines youth and experience, it mixes players from nine different clubs (two play at Olympique Lyonnais, two at LOSC, the rest play at Stade Rennais, Stade Brestois, AJ Auxerre, FC Nantes, at Olympique de Marseille, Le Havre AC and OGC Nice), it could include on the bench, goalkeeper Arthur Desmas, defenders Christopher Jullien, Djibril Sidibé and Jordan Amavi; Abdoulaye Touré, Remy Cabella and Nampalys Mendy in the middle, as well as Krépin Diatta and Loïs Diony in attack.
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