Arnaud Garnier is co-president with Lassina Diabaté of the football club of Saint Medard en Jalles, a club whose sponsor is none other than Paul Baysse. The three men are very close and according to Arnaud Garnier, Paul Baysse he accuses the blow of his exclusion from the pro group to go to train now with the reserve and it would be a lie to say the opposite, specified the leader of Saint-Médard.
Paul Baysse is going to hang on, he doesn’t want to hang up his crampons!
Paul Baysse has been injured since May 2021 when he suffered a cruciate ligament rupture (for the third time in his career) during a match against Lens. He was coming back. He hoped to be in the group to play and he learns (Editor’s note: under conditions it seems cavalier that Arnaud Garnier wanted to keep to himself) that he is asked to go train with the reserve. We made him understand that he no longer had his place at the Girondins de Bordeaux, so it reminded him of bad memories. It was Jean-Louis Gasset who had put him back in the saddle. Now he’s a boy who’s seen others, who’s going to keep hanging on, who doesn’t want to hang up his crampons. He still wants to play football, but yes, he’s having a bad time because he wasn’t expecting it, to say the least, said Arnaud Garnier.
It will be necessary to clarify things for all the lovers of the club.
For the 1999 French champion François Grenet we must wait to know a little more about the reasons for these decisions whether for Paul Baysse, for Mehdi Zerkane or Laurent Koscielny in particular, because for the moment officially, no one has communicated to justify these updates. ‘difference. So maybe the leaders do not feel obligated to do it and it is their right, but it will still be necessary to clarify things in relation to the decisions which have been taken and which can be understood or misunderstood first by the first interested, but also by all lovers of the club, all the supporters in short all the people who follow the club. Regarding Paul Baysse, he is a native of the country and he had a reconversion planned within the club, it seems to me, concluded François Grenet. Information confirmed by Arnaud Garnier that there was talk of Paul remaining in the management, a conversion that was to start at the end of his contract as a pro player in June 2024, said the co-president of Saint Médard en Jalles.
Vladimir Petkovic is maintained as a coach.
If things move at the level of the players (Paul Baysse and Mehdi Zerkane with the reserve, Laurent Koscielny would negotiate his departure and Josh Maja, Samuel Kalu and Otavio would be on the departure during this winter transfer window) the coach seems to him to keep the confidence of the club but would be under pressure. Regarding Vladimir Petkovic, François Grenet said he agreed on the principle of giving him time, that patience was legitimately required because he is a coach who arrived late, who did not know well the French championship, which came out of three seasons at the head of the Swiss selection. Managing a selection and a club are two different things.
Today, time has passed and the situation is still the same.
The leaders made strong decisions by dismissing players and keeping the coach. We can still hold him, if not for everything, largely responsible for the situation of the team considers the champion of France 1999. For Arnaud Garnier, we must turn the page Petkovic! “I no longer trust Vladimir Petkovic“said the co-president of Saint Médard who calls for a real change as Lassina Diabaté had done a few weeks ago by wishing the appointment of a man from the region Jean-Marc Furlan, current coach of AJ Auxerre Without taking such a firm position, François Grenet nevertheless put forward a name: ” I often think, because I’m like that, it’s my mentality and the attachment I have to this club, of people who have known this club, who loved it deeply, who wet the jersey like one says. There is René Girard, for example. However, what profile do you need to manage this group well and make it progress quickly? I don’t have the answer, I don’t have a diploma or coaching experience »Said François Grenet. The coming hours and days are sure to be hectic. Hopefully all this does not affect too much the preparation of the group against Rennes next Sunday.