On his arrival in December 2020, Gauthier Ganaye announced the color. The successor of Jean-Louis Garcia on the Nancy bench will have to apply his playing philosophy, that based on counter-pressing at the loss of the ball.
From the outset, ASNL supporters therefore discover a president who chooses a technician to apply his style of play. This is almost a first in the world of football here in France where a president presides over and chooses a coach for his ideas, not to apply his own.
This original posture leads to the arrival last summer of a stranger in France but also in Europe. The German Daniel Stendel, had so far achieved the feat of being sacked in less than 18 months from the two clubs of which he was the main technician. But he was appreciated by the English supporters of Barnsley, it is already there …
Team in agony
But in Nancy that was not enough. A tactically dying team, without any guidelines with lost players and especially not adapted to the style of play advocated by the coach. And very quickly it was clear that the ASNL was going into the wall. But the president waited forever at the end of September to fire an inexperienced technician who did not know the specifics of L2.
This error, recognized by Gauthier Ganaye, was accompanied by a failed recruitment. Forwards Jung and Thiam who came to score goals do not. The defenders defend poorly. And in the middle, the best player of last year Kenny Rocha left for Belgium in Ostend … club chaired by Gauthier Ganaye.
ASNL condemned to the third division?
Last with 9 points behind the first relegation, a chasm, the ASNL is almost doomed to the third division, but you never know. A miracle is still possible. As in the 2012-2013 season. But lightning never falls twice in the same place.
During these end of year celebrations Gauthier Ganaye will have to find a motivated technician to come into this quagmire. AND if this coach could be called David Copperfield, Gérard Majax or Harry Oudini it would suit all the fans of the club disillusioned by so much trial and error.