Revenge is a dish best served cold. And, obviously, Antoine Kombouaré let the meal cool for many weeks. Angry at the journalists who speculated for several weeks about his future at the head of FC Nantes, Kanak cut short the press conference this Thursday before the resumption match in Ligue 1, in Lille, on Saturday.
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 have written lots of things, I didn't take it into account because it was a difficult situation, for the club and for me, so it was normal, given the results we had,” he said about the first articles reporting threats to his post, after the defeat (0-2) at home against Le Havre at the end of November.
Beye and Conceiçao were tracked
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 turned around 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, for you journalists to question yourselves, you are not going to agree, but I don’t really care,” he began. 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. »
“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're going to pretend I'm not there […] I let you work, but I simply withdraw. » Before setting sail and leaving the press conference. Not happy, Antoine.
