
After having indicated that he wanted to rebuild his FC Nantes around training and youth, Waldemar Kita is already falling back into his faults. His last recruit testifies …
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Waldemar Kita did not drag to turn the page Antoine Kombouaré. By thanking his coach one year before the end of his contract, FC Nantes said he wanted to launch a new cycle. A project focused on “youth, the collective and an attacking game in connection with the historic DNA of the club”. For this, the choice of Luis Castro, a technician renowned for his game ideas, has something to seduce. But hardly the transfer window launched, the first inconsistencies already arise. And they once again carry the brand of the president himself.
Radakovic, the first hiccup?
The first reinforcement of FC Nantes Version Luis Castro is not a bet on the future. Uros Radakovic, a 31 -year -old central defender, has just settled in the Canaries after a more than stormy passage in Türkiye. With 4 red cards on his last 15 games in Sivasspor, his profile contrasts with the speeches heard recently. Especially since his journey speaks for him: 12 clubs, 8 championships and often lightning passages. This recruitment, which seems to be piloted directly by Waldemar Kita, does not stick to the targeted type profile for reconstruction, nor to publicly advocated philosophy …
A transfer window that is already on tension
For the time being, we do not yet know if Luis Castro has validated the Radakovic file, which signs for two seasons. But it would not be the first time that Waldemar Kita has recruited a player without the approval of his coach. It is even systematically like that that he begins by destroying his relationship with the various coaches who dared to sit on the bench of FC Nantes since 2007. As soon as the transfer window begins, Kita gets involved. And the problems start …