Zapping Foot National Top 10: Ligue 1 top scorers in activity
Only one season. But what a season. Transferred from Reims to Rennes in the summer of 2019, Edouard Mendy lived a shortened exercise in Brittany, but historic. Third in Ligue 1 when the championship was stopped in March, due to the health context, the Senegalese goalkeeper was one of the great architects of the first qualification of Stade Rennais for the Champions League. Left to join Chelsea the following summer for the sum of 25 million euros, the goalkeeper confided this morning in the columns of L’Equipe to keep very strong links with the club of Ille-et-Vilaine. But above all, the last bulwark of the Blues, who had also found his ex-teammates in the group stage during the fall (for two victories, 3-0 in the first leg and 2-1 in the return), returned to the departure of his former trainer Julien Stéphan.
“It’s not surprising”
At the beginning of March, the Breton technician had indeed submitted his resignation under a bad series of results. So, surprised Edouard Mendy? “Yes, because I think there were still great things to do, there was still a way to turn the situation around, as he has done many times before. And no, on the other hand, because he has always put the institution above everything and if, in his reflection, he felt that the team needed this sacrifice to start again, he would do it every day, assures the goalkeeper. rare, but when you know the man and the love he has for the club, it is not surprising, ”concludes Edouard Mendy.
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