Massara's response on the future of Julien Stéphan

Crushed by Auxerre this afternoon (4-0), Rennes dragged out its painful period of turbulence. A new defeat which naturally calls into question the future of Julien Stéphan, guarantor of the balance, or imbalance of the team. If the situation seems untenable today for the Breton technician, his sports director Frederic Massara has in any case given no clue when discussing his future.

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«It's a huge disappointment because we had an insufficient match. We didn't expect that at all, we thought we would do betterregretted the Italian in the mixed zone, before being invited to comment on the future of his coach. Right now there is just a feeling of great disappointment. We must all assume our responsibilities, me first and foremost, the team is not up to what we currently expected. You absolutely have to pick yourself up and work hard. If Julien Stéphan will be the coach against Toulouse? Frankly, we must not think about Toulouse, we must think about no longer playing matches like that and we must get back up. We're not where we want to be, we're at the bottom, and that's probably what we deserve right now.»