Jorge Sampaoli has his work cut out for him and he was able to verify it this Sunday by watching from the stands of Roazhon Park the defeat of his future Stade Rennais team against Toulouse.
Fired after the slap inflicted by Auxerre last week, Julien Stéphan was not on the bench at Stade Rennais against Toulouse this Sunday afternoon. But while waiting for Jorge Sampaoli, future coach of the Breton club who was in the stands, interim Sébastien Tambouret did not work miracles. Toulouse came to win at Roazhon Park (0-2), and the match showed the extent of the work for Jorge Sampaoli. In today's edition, the newspaper L'Equipe uses very strong words to describe the situation at Stade Rennais before the team was taken over by the Argentinian technician, who played for Marseille or even Sevilla and the Chilean selection.
“Sampaoli will take over a collective in agony and lost souls, players who overall are not used to being poorly classified” writes the national daily in its today's edition. The work will be colossal to redress the situation, which Jorge Sampaoli has already done in some of his previous clubs. The Argentinian will have to find receptive players in front of him to have even a chance of succeeding in his mission. Ludovic Blas is ready to make great efforts to rectify the situation.
Sampaoli has a huge construction site ahead of him
“We need to find a solution as quickly as possible. A new coach arrives, hoping that it helps, that it restarts something. Hopefully it goes well. The most important thing is to question yourself, because even if the coach changes, the players remain the same. But no one gives up » promised the former FC Nantes playmaker. This is good, Jorge Sampaoli hates players without personality and who give up. The signing of the Argentine technician is imminent, work will soon be able to begin and the change promises to be radical with the methods known in Rennes in the past, from Bruno Genesio or Julien Stéphan.
