At 29, Christopher Jullien should make his return to Ligue 1, after a three-year exile in Scotland. The former defender of Toulouse, climbed into the elite with Dijon and Olivier Dall’Oglio in 2016wants to relaunch a career put on hold by a knee injury in December 2020, then by the choices of a coach who only called on him once, this year, during a match cutting, last February: fifteen short minutes.
Arrived this Monday in Montpellier, this 1m96 rock has been carrying out all the tests for 24 hours in order to validate, he hopes, his medical examination. The MHSC, for its part, hopes finalize an agreement with the Scottish club for the player to be transferred and released of his last year of contract.
La Paillade wants to strengthen a central hinge deemed too soft, while the Hérault team has already cashed nine goals in the first three days. The arrival of Christopher Jullien would also be that of a right-hander in a central defense which has only one, in the person of Pedro Mendes, not yet fully operational, and while Falaye Sacko has not reassured, when the coach positioned him in front of the goalkeeper, against Troyes and against Paris-Saint-Germain.
In contrast, this signature should precede one or more departures, possibly in the defensive sector. If all the lights were quickly green, Christopher Jullien could celebrate his hundredth in Ligue 1 on the lawn of Brest, this Sunday, on the occasion of the fourth day of the championship. A ground on which he has not set foot since March 2016.