To write a new page in the history of FC Nantes, Waldemar Kita wishes to bet on youth and Nantes training. But the skeptical minds are already out …
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Very close to switching to the hatch direction Ligue 2 in 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025, FC Nantes clearly has played with fire for 5 years. So, to try to write another scenario than that of maintenance, Waldemar Kita imagined a project around training and youth. Nantes know-how continues to do its work, the talents that emerge as a first team and good performances in Youth League in recent years prove it. But it is mainly because Waldemar Kita is at the foot of the wall, financially, that he sets up this project “last chance”. To embody this renewal, the Canaries turn to a promising technician, the Portuguese Luis Castro. But the wind of novelty does not convince bookmakers. At the dawn of the 2025-2026 season, the FCN is one of the least credible candidates in Ligue 1. like Angers, Lorient and Metz, Nantes has a maximum rating of 1000 against 1! Clearly, there are few those to believe that the Waldemar Kita project will work in the short term …
