Régis Le Bris will stay in Lorient. The Lorient coach is coming off a great season with FCL, but also a very eventful start to the summer. In conflict with its management and in particular on the choices of its president Loïc Féry. After skipping the resumption of training for Les Merlus, he confided in the columns of L’Équipe to projecting himself into the future within the Breton club.
Seeing his technician courted by OGC Nice during the off-season, Loïc Féry did not like this maneuver and let it be known. And this, Le Bris did “not appreciate it” he admitted, no longer using the terms used by its president, the latter evoking a form of “treason”.
“I felt that dysfunctions were neither recognized at their fair value nor dealt with. I was worried. My responsibility was to tell the president and if there is a mismatch, we had to discuss the outcome” regretted Le Bris. Result of the races, the Breton will hold the power over all the sportsman at the club the pro team, training and recruitment.
“Either we really go, or you (the president) say that I am no longer the right person and we have to stop”, this is how things were presented between the coach and the president of the Lorient club. Le Bris preferred to sum up the situation as a “growing pains” by easing any tensions that may exist.
Still, with all these stories, Lorient may have lost sight of the essentials, the transfer window and the preparation for the new season. If there was a delay in September? “That, we will say in September. It’s part of my concerns ”wanted to temporize the coach who took the Hakes to 10th place. Especially since Lorient will go to the Parc des Princes to play PSG there on the first day.