July 18, 2025
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The holidays are ended for players from the Laval stadium. This Thursday, June 26, they returned to the Gandonnières training center to prepare for the 2025-2026 season. And if only one recruit is announced for the moment, President Laurent Lairy assures him to Here Mayenne : “There is nothing blocked at Laval level. It is the market that is blocked.” Like many French clubs, Laval is affected by an uncertain economic context. “The 2025-2026 transfer window is slightly blocked by economic situations, TV rights. In previous years, it started much earlier,” said Lairy. He also points out the responsibility of certain elite clubs: “The Ligue 1 clubs have limited their transfer window and the club World Cup slows down a bit.”

In the meantime, Laval advances behind the scenes. Only one official arrival for the moment, that of Julien Maggiotti, who has signed up for three years. But the president reassures: “We have a list of recruitment which was worked by the coach and Ousmane Dabo, and which I validated.” Lairy wants above all to avoid excess: “It is first to be deliberate to avoid being in an economic situation which is already tense. And which I do not wish to aggravate.” The club will have to do without several players who left at the end of the contract or return to the loan: Gonçalves, Roye, Adéoti, Tell, Seidou, Nazih and Doucouré. Conversely, Noa Mupemba returns from her loan to Avranches. Laval thus retains almost all of an efficient workforce, which Lairy recalls: “We will restart with the almost complete workforce of the past season, an efficient workforce as you have been able to live all season.” However, the Laval stadium remains attentive to the market. “If there is departures, there will be replacements there anyway,” assures the president, without giving in to precipitation. “There is no refusal, no tensions. We are in a wait -and -see situation.”

A stable club in a football in crisis

Lairy is lucid on the health of French football. “The football situation is worrying. The 2024-2025 season has lost around 1.3 billion euros,” he alerts, while keeping a share of optimism: “I hope that the situation will start again. I am quite confident given the reforms that are planned.” This prudence pays. The Laval stadium successfully passed its passage in front of the DNCG, without the slightest restrictive measure. A rigor that allows Laval to look at the future with stability. On August 8, Laval will receive AS Saint-Etienne to open the new season. With a stable base, a president in charge, and a clear strategy, the tangos hope not to remain in a third consecutive place.