Contacts renewed with Conceiçao since Sunday
The spectacular relapse at Le Blé was intolerable in the eyes of the Nantes management, whether in approach, production and behavior, just after the only victory obtained in three and a half months against Rennes the previous weekend, on a personal feat from Moses Simon (1-0). During the week, the players had been made aware of the importance of this meeting, they were not up to the task and the choices of Kombouaré, in particular the sliding on the bench of the hopeful Nathan Zézé in favor of A complementary player, Jean-Kévin Duverne, at fault and replaced at the break, did not help anything. “They had worked tactically better than usalso sighed defender Nicolas Cozza. They managed to bring out the balloons, to find the discrepancies. We were everywhere and nowhere at the same time. It’s a tactical problem, because we were running in a vacuum…”
Kombouaré had obtained a respite and a rebound by going to scrape a point in Paris (1-1, November 30), by changing goalkeeper and scheme, and by winning in the derby, while the tumultuous setback against Le Havre (0-2, November 24) had particularly weakened him. He had received the support of the players through the voice of Alban Lafont and the management had maintained it, but there were already candidates and indirect contacts with Conceiçao in the air. A character who had something to make the Kita think as he had left his mark on people in 2017 in a great adventure which had come to an abrupt end. Because his success in Nantes, which he had climbed from 19th to 7th place, had seduced Porto, and he had forced his departure when he had just extended until 2020. Contact has been renewed since Sunday, and it remains to move forward in discussions and finalize an agreement.
