Finally recruits… But not right away either. As nothing is simple for the Girondins de Bordeaux in this summer transfer window 2022, Yoann Barbet, Vital N’Simba, Clément Michelin and Aliou Badji, will not be able to play in the Girondins jersey on Sunday, on the lawn of Paris FC . The four recruits announced by the club on September 1, the transfer window deadline, will not be qualified on time. For the 7th game in a row, the Gironde team will still be very young. To see the recruits, it will be necessary to wait until the following weekend on the lawn of Saint-Étienne.
But it is already a first victory for the Bordelais. Finally, they have experienced players experienced in Ligue 2. The arrivals of defenders Vital N’Simba (178 L2 games with Clermont and Bourg-en Bresse), Yoann Barbet (one season in Niort, then 221 English D2 games ), Clément Michelin (42 games in Ligue 1 and 39 in Ligue 2) and striker Aliou Badji (13 goals in 26 L2 games last year in Amiens) are going in this direction. Recruits for whom the club has not paid a transfer, since the first two arrive free and the last two on loan with the option to buy from AEK Athens and Amiens.
Four recruits therefore, and not five, while the club had agreed for several days with the 21-year-old Georgian international winger Zuriko Davitashvili. In Haillan this Thursday, he had signed his contract and had his medical examination, but his arrival was not announced. According to Sud Ouest, its contract was sent to the DNCG for approval. A constraint that will have pursued the club throughout the summer.
23 departures this summer
Time must have seemed very long to Yoann Barbet and Vital N’Simba, who had already agreed with the club since the end of June. In the meantime, the Girondins, forced by the DNCG to lower their payroll before being able to register recruits, have launched a vast degreasing operation, leaving many players. In recent days, the big salaries of Enock Kwateng (terminated contract), Rémi Oudin (on loan to Lecce) have been saved. Discussions were still underway this Thursday for Paul Baysse to end his career and begin a retraining within the club, like Laurent Koscielny before him. A total of 23 players (!) left the club this summer.
This transfer window will remain a failure, the non-arrival of Danish goalkeeper Jonas Lössl. While the player trained for several weeks at Haillan, his club FC Midtjylland refused to let him go, in the face of Bordeaux’s procrastination. Gaëtan Poussin, who was not seen as a number 1 goalkeeper, will finally leave as a starter this season. And then, five recruits, it is far from the announcements of Gérard Lopez who wanted some “ideally between six and eight” end of July, when Barbet and N’Simba had already signed.