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This Monday, June 30, it was a resumption day at FC Nantes. The club located on the banks of the Erdre had therefore made an appointment to the press at La Jonelière to take stock of the coming season and present the successor of Antoine Kombouaré. The opportunity for observers to question Franck Kita, Deputy Managing Director of the FCN, on the Mercato trend in and green. As a reminder, we especially saw executives leaving or going to do so. Nicolas Pallois has not been kept, Moses Simon was sold at Paris FC in exchange for € 7 million, Pedro Chirivella joined Panathinaikos against € 2 million and Douglas Augusto must be transferred to Krasnodar in exchange for € 6.5 million.

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Departures justified by Kita. “”We were at the end of the cycle. We had a number of executives who have left, such as Pedro Chirivella, Nicolas Pallois or Marcus Coco, who had been there for five-six years. With them, we lived everything: dam, support, French cup, European cup, we played everything. We had to move on to something else, a new era. The departure of these executives automatically leaves more places to young people.These departures explained, Kita was then expected on the side of arrivals.

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Nantes no longer wants to sell, but …

For the moment, only young goalkeeper Alexis Mirbach has officially joined the Canaries, waiting for the Serbian defender Uros Radakovic. A reinforcement that satisfies coach Luis Castro. “He has an interesting axial defender profile. He's a comfortable player with the ball. That's what we want. It is very strong in the air field. It is also aggressive. But it will be necessary to adapt to Ligue 1, which is different from the Turkish championship “said the Portuguese. And the rest? “Obviously we table a certain number of players. We are targeting players who like the coach. Purchases? Of course, ”said Kita, who will say no more.

The Nantes leader, on the other hand, assured that the club no longer needed to sell to ensure its rear. “”We have made a number of sales so we are very comfortable from a financial point of view. We don't need to sell, because we have already sold. Leroux, tabibou, they are intransferable, they need to flourish with the coach. Zezé? He is young but he has a little more experience. I didn't want to sell Simon, Douglas or Chirivella. Zézé, he's an excellent player. I don't need to sell it. But you know football.“You will understand: Nantes would like to keep Zezé, but if a club arrives and puts a good offer on the table, the Canaries will not hold their defender …

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