In The TeamFriday, Samba did not hide having been immersed in a form of questioning in recent months: “When the men of the project leave one after the other, you doubt…”. In mid-December, Pouille became certain that, in the Samba file, there was an opening. And that the international goalkeeper was sensitive to the reconfiguration of the Rennes project, with European ambitions in the short term. It remained to convince the leaders of Lens for whom the goalkeeper, by his level of performance since the summer of 2022 and his status as captain, is an obvious symbolic issue. Joseph Oughourlian, the president of the Artesian club, had set a line for his teams for this winter transfer window: balance the accounts and lower the payroll. From there to giving up his guardian? The club owner conducted the negotiation in person. Even if he knew his player was sold at the end of the three-year cycle upon his arrival from Nottingham Forest in 2022, there is no question for him of selling his player whose influence he knows in the locker room and the status of Bollaert's “darling” , without very solid financial compensation.
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