Demoted in the hierarchy of goalkeepers and pushed out by FC Nantes, Alban Lafont is going through a particularly difficult period. And the 25-year-old goalkeeper, who was unsuccessfully offered to certain clubs, is having a hard time coping with his downgrade.
Alban Lafont played the first twelve days of the season as a starter with FC Nantes. Before suddenly finding himself on the bench. Overnight. Disappointed by his performances, Antoine Kombouaré, the Canaris coach, decided to do without his number 1 goalkeeper since November 24 and a home defeat against Le Havre in the championship (0-2). Since his downgrade, the Swede Patrik Carlgren has taken his place in the FCN goals, with some success.
To the point that Alban Lafont, who arrived in 2019 from Fiorentina, is now being pushed out. His agent Meïssa Ndiaye has mentioned his name to RC Lens in order to compensate for the probable departure to Stade Rennais of Brice Samba, whose interests he also manages. But the Lens management was divided on the case of Alban Lafont. Some of the managers gave the green light, but others considered that the goalkeeper trained in Toulouse did not have the necessary level to evolve with the Sang et Or. Lens has also activated other avenues, in Belgium or the Netherlands in particular, to find a new goalkeeper.
“He’s at the bottom of the bucket.”
Enough to dampen the morale of Alban Lafont, former French Espoirs international, native of Burkina Faso (his mother's country of origin). According to our information, the 1.96m tall goalkeeper, under contract until 2027 with Nantes, is having a very difficult time with the situation. “He’s really sad, at the bottom of the bucket. We could talk about depression,” explains one of our RMC Sport reporters.
Beyond Lens, Lafont was offered to several other clubs who refused him, sometimes quite directly. Its short-term future now seems to be at an impasse. His agent will have to find a solution to get him out of the fog. In the meantime, the main interested party recently spoke with his leaders in Loire-Atlantique. Without much effect, a priori.
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