Damien Comolli was the guest of 100% TFC this Wednesday evening. The president of the Toulouse Football Club swept the news of the club three days before the reception of Sochaux counting for the 16th day of Ligue 2. He announced a attendance record, defended his supporters and mentioned the winter transfer window .
The first part of the season
“We could be first with more points ahead of second and third. But hey, we’re happy. We had to change a lot of things last summer, starting with the technical staff. And then, quite a bit. of players following the departures. We had a great start to the season. I would say what we absolutely wanted to do because last year, that’s what hurt us. It’s going very well with Philippe Montanier. The players are progressing, the young people are progressing. For me, this is a quality of a coach and a technical staff. They are the ones who know how to use the players, who know how to perform, but who also know how to make them progress. And when we see our young players who are called up for the national team, it shows that they are making progress. “
The three draws in a row in Ligue 2
“Yes, it annoys us. It frustrates us. It does not make us angry, but it frustrates us. We constantly question ourselves, even after the victories. We knew it was going to be difficult to keep up this pace. We continue. We keep improving, there is a little less creativity, a little less quality in the finish. I think that the first person in charge is us, it is our team. “
The goal rise in Ligue 1
“Unfortunately, the events of the past year have shown us that anything is possible since everyone told us that we were going to go up at the end. We didn’t go up, so … Me, personally, I ‘ consider all the scenarios. What is certain is that we do everything we can to go up. We put all our energy into it. It’s an obsession, it’s not a will, it’s an obsession that drives us every day. “
Attendance record against Sochaux
“We will easily beat the attendance record this season, which was 10,500. I think we will be at least 15,000, which is a huge performance that we rarely saw in L1. To give you an idea, it happened that Téfécé sold 800 tickets for a match against Lyon, for example. There we will have sold 11,500 dry tickets if we are at 15,000. We There is an incredible passion on the part of our supporters. We have 3,000 new spectators per game. New means people who didn’t come to the previous game. Now people buy about three seats per person. In fact, there is something going on in the city. We can feel it. They call me, they tell me “I haven’t been here for 15 years.” It’s great, really. “
After the projectile throws at the Stadium
“We made the Téfécé supporters look like they are not, which is absolutely unfair. First, because it is isolated elements and individuals who did what they did. Three people who did. They were guilty of these actions were arrested. They were taken into custody. We filed a complaint at the beginning against X, then when we found them, we filed a personal complaint. There is a repeat offender. What I thought was admirable about the last game was our supporters who did the police. I would say, if I may use the expression, who fixed the problem and took these people out. The leader of the Indians, Alexandre Roux, immediately took the microphone, saying no of that at home and sent a message of calm in relation to that. So they are not at all the supporters of Téfécé. The real supporters of the Téfécé, they are the ones who got these people out of the bend. And we took care of them too. And I want it in. ur proof that the league did not sanction us. The three files were closed because the league sees the behavior of our supporters and you too, that as a club, we have taken adequate measures so that these people are sanctioned. “
The winter transfer window
“You know, we have always been on our policies since we arrived at the club with Redbird. We are always on the lookout for the potential to strengthen, but that is not our main objective in this transfer window. took a lot of players last summer. It works well. We are first in the championship. There is room for individual and collective progress, of course. So we look but I don’t think we are very active. has one or two players on whom we have questions about departures, either on loans so that they have playing time or because they are at the end of their contract at the end of the season, in particular on Stéphane Zobo , because he had a lot of proposals last summer, which he refused. So, I think it is a player who is called to leave us. it will be a calm transfer window. “