Laurent Fournier will therefore have stayed for a year and a half in Eure-et-Loir. The management of C’Chartres Football announced this Monday that it had terminated its coach’s contract. A thunderbolt for this club, which is at the top of its group in National 3.
The former coach of PSG, Auxerre, Strasbourg and recently Poissy was dismissed after a setback on Saturday against Vierzon (2-1), a direct competitor for promotion to N2 (fourth level).
“A strategic choice,” justifies President Rasim Ozpinar to L’Echo Républicain, visibly unhappy with the performances at home (2 wins, 3 draws, 1 loss) and the proposed game.
“On a human level, Laurent Fournier is a great guy with whom I want to stay on good terms. Afterwards, maybe I’m wrong, but I have my reasons, explains the manager. We have the biggest budget in our group (Editor’s note: 1.7 million euros). I want us to move up to N2, that’s my wish and my dream, and I consider that the championship is still long. For me, the hardest part is yet to come…”
The club, anything but a model of stability, had chosen to trust Laurent Fournier in the summer of 2023 in a complicated context. The DNCG had just formalized the administrative demotion to Regional 1, after a sporting descent to N3.
“I’m disappointed. I have the feeling that I have started to write a story that I will not be able to finish,” the 60-year-old technician told the local daily, informed of his dismissal on Sunday afternoon by telephone.
While waiting for his successor, it is Clément Chantôme, who became sports director in the spring after finishing his playing career there (2022-2024), who will direct the training sessions and perhaps the next match. Chantôme and Fournier knew each other very well. The second had launched the first among the pros at PSG.
