On the occasion of their next transfer of power, the current president of Racing 92, Jacky Lorenzetti, and his successor, manager Laurent Travers, confided in Le Figaro at length. An interview during which the two men discussed the recent release of their former opener, Johnny Sexton. The Irishman reportedly told the British press that he “regrets” having spent two seasons with the Ile-de-France club.
A wording that made people talk. A controversy that has no place, assure the two leaders, who speak of a shortcut which the Anglo-Saxon newspapers are accustomed to. “You have to read it in the context of the article, explains Jacky Lorenzetti. It is not the fact of having played for Racing that he regrets, it is not having been the man of one team.
Laurent Travers is categorical. “I had Johnny on the phone. He assured me that he hadn’t said it that way at all. ”I wanted to try an experience that did me good even if, sportingly, I didn’t bring you everything you expected. But it’s a break in my career without which I would have known only one club.”