Angry with journalists who speculated for several weeks about his future at the head of FC Nantes, Antoine Kombouaré cut short the press conference on Thursday before the resumption match in Ligue 1 in Lille on Saturday.
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Very tense but also clearly moved, the technician remained in front of the press for less than three minutes, for a long monologue, before getting up and leaving the press room at the Jonelière center.
“You wrote a lot of things, I didn’t take them into account because it was a difficult situation, for the club for me, it was therefore normal, given the results we had,” he said. he launched about the first articles reporting threats to his position, after the defeat (0-2) at home against Le Havre at the end of November.
The management of Nantes then contacted the entourage of Sergio Conceiçao, who had already passed through Beaujoire, but who ultimately refused the position to join AC Milan on December 30.
An agreement in principle was then reached with Habib Beye but, faced with the latter’s difficulty in putting together a complete staff, Nantes finally made an about-face and chose to continue with Kombouaré when the team resumed.
After weeks of tension, Kanak sharply attacked the press who had, according to him, taken his departure for granted.
“I made a decision today, so that you journalists question yourselves, you are not going to agree but I don’t really care,” he began.
“Phone call”
“What bothers me is that you were all unanimous, and above all categorical, on the fact that today I will no longer be the coach of FC Nantes,” he said. .
“You messed up, and behind that, it can’t happen like that, without consequences,” he said again, explaining that he waited in vain for a written mea culpa or a “phone call, at least for s ‘excuse, at least to explain’.
“If I stay there, I tell you, I will be unpleasant, I will even be mean, but I do not want to be here today in this press conference,” he argued .
“So you will act as if I was not there (…) I will let you work, but I will simply withdraw,” he concluded before getting up and leaving.
