LOSC is activated on all fronts, but a position remains an obsession. Management has a specific plan to finalize its workforce.
The Lille transfer window is in full swing. With the arrivals already acted from players like Olivier Giroud, Marius Broholm, Arnaud Bodart and the Portuguese winger Félix Correia, the northern club showed its muscles. The workforce is strengthened in sight, ready to approach a season which promises to be intense. However, despite this purchasing frenzy, a major file remains unanswered, an essential box to check so that the puzzle of Bruno Genesio is complete. This file has become the number one obsession of management.
LOSC is waiting for David's successor
This absolute priority is the recruitment of a center-forward.
As reported La Voix du Nordthe LOSC is still in the active search for the replacement of Jonathan David. If Olivier Giroud brings all his experience, the club knows that he will not be able to carry the weight of the attack alone all season. You need a new scorer, a player capable of guaranteeing goals and taking over from the Canadian. The tracks are studied, like that leading to the Moroccan Hamza Igamane (Glasgow Rangers), but nothing is yet finalized.
This quest for the perfect scorer conditions the rest of the transfer window. The club is ready to invest an important sum to find the rare pearl, aware that the success of its season will largely depend on the efficiency of its new number 9. This is the last major offensive project, but it is by far the most strategic.
Keep your frames, the other fight
While the recruitment unit strives to find this scorer, another fight is played internally: the conservation of executives. The case of Benjamin André is the perfect illustration. Courted by Paris FC with an attractive contract offer (3 years, € 225,000 monthly), the 35 -year -old seemed to departure.
But according to information from The teamLOSC would have decided to align with this proposal to convince its leader to stay. A considerable financial effort which proves the importance of the player in the project.
The message sent by management is therefore double. On the one hand, a desire to invest massively on a new striker to prepare for the future. On the other hand, a determination to do everything to keep the pillars of the locker room, even if it means breaking his piggy bank for a player at the end of his career. This is proof of an ambitious project, which does not sacrifice experience or potential. The LOSC wants to give itself the means to play on all the tables, and it goes through strong choices, both in arrivals and in extra time.
