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Nicolas Claich
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Dec 18 2024 at 6:50 a.m.
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The Stade Malherbe Caen will spend the truce warm. Near the radiator, at the back of the class, with the dunces of Ligue 2. Romain Thomas and his partners dreamed of the accession dams, they currently occupy the position of play-off…relegationwith 15 small points on the clock after 16 days of the championship. The arithmetic doesn’t lie: with nine defeats in 16 matches, Nicolas Seube’s men cannot hope for better. “Accounting, the balance sheet is largely insufficient. It’s never very pleasant to have a series of defeats, whispers Nicolas Seube. We will do everything to raise our heads. There must be a collective awareness of what we must undertake on the ground.”
A reduced workforce
The Weed coach, who succeeded in everything last season, for his first months at the head of the team, can put forward some arguments in his defense. Summer preparation largely disrupted by the late takeover of the club by the Mbappé family or by the false start of Alexandre Mendy. Long-term injured among senior players: Yann M’vila, Valentin Henry, Brahim Traoréwithout forgetting Kalifa Coulibaly or Lamine Sy. “Our workforce is reduced, this deprives us of rotations,” laments the Caen coach. And this prevents us from always putting players in the best possible condition, like Diabé Bolumbu. » Left-handed, the young full-back finds himself forced to play in the right lane in the absence of Henry and Sy. He’s in trouble. In Dunkirk, it is Leo Millinerattacking midfielder, who finished the match in this position.
These questions will arise in the offices of managers when activating the winter Mercato mode. Could reinforcements come and help SM Caen to get out of the doldrums ?
We will have to take stock, a fair one, which will allow us to make the best reflections and anticipations for tomorrow. My main idea is that this club has a better future with football that suits us. This is my position. I was a supposedly not very technical player but courageous and with an impeccable state of mind. I would like to have a team like that.
The Caen board will also have to decide the question of sports directora position still officially occupied by Yohan Eudelinewhich is announced at the start.
A future in question
Among these winter reflections, that surrounding the future of Nicolas Seube on the bench will it be on the table? Ziad Hammoud has always affirmed that he has full confidence in Seube and his staff. Although he is a young technician, the former “Capi” has been around the world of football for too long to ignore that a coach is on perpetual reprieve.
From the moment we do this job, we know that it could stop at any moment. This is the law of our profession.
One thing is certain, Nicolas Seube does not intend to abdicate. He can rely on the second part of the 2023/24 season to believe in better days. “I will never give up, until the last second of my mandate,” he assured, Monday December 16, after the defeat at Dunkirk, Monday December 16 (3-1).
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