Take shelter as quickly as possible with the maintenance in Ligue 1, spend at all costs to already rebuild a new cycle barely six months after the arrival of Frederic Massara in Rennes, and if Arnaud Pouille played it like John Textor with Stade Rennais a bit like OL a year ago?
22 million for Saïd Benrahma, 13 million for Gift Orban, the big salary granted to Nemanja Matic, the mystery Orel Mangala then Moussa Niakhaté last summer. Apart from the recruitment of Malick Fofana in Lyon, we cannot say that all this money will have been invested on the Lyon side by the John Textor clan. And we know the rest…
And if Rennes has solid financial backing, we can welcome the recent recruitment of Seko Fofana, even if we must admit that 20 million still stings for a player who is almost 30 years old and who will have been in tough times in Saudi Arabia for 18 months.
And what about Brice Samba, who should soon leave RC Lens to join him at Stade Rennais? A transfer worth €15 million could quickly be concluded between the different parties and again, it is a significant investment for a 30-year-old goalkeeper, even if the French international is indeed a reference to his position in the League 1 for several seasons and that he will surely do a lot of good for SRFC.
On the other hand, Daniel Riolo and Florian Gautreau confirmed that Seko Fofana would receive nearly 600,000 euros per month at Stade Rennais while a monthly salary of between 450,000 and 500,000 euros would have already been promised to Brice Samba in the event of signing for residents of Roazhon Park.
That’s almost €13 million per year between them, not including all expenses! Can you imagine? We hope that with these figures, the new project led by former Lensois Arnaud Pouille will allow Rennes to regain its splendor, and especially the top of the table in Ligue 1! But beware of delusions of grandeur…
