By Simon galinier
Published on 12 Mar 21 @ 2:27 pm
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This is THE big news of the day! According to The team, the third line international center of Montpellier, Louis picamoles (35 years old; 82 selections) commits with immediate effect to theUBB, as medical joker.
The player who had already agreed with Bordeaux-Begles for next season will finally land in the next few days in Gironde. He would have already announced it to his partners in the MHR and the formalization of his arrival is expected in the coming hours.
He will be Marco Tauleigne’s medical joker
At the UBB, Louis picamoles will arrive as medical joker to compensate for the unavailability of number 8 Bordeaux-Béglais and future Montpellier, Marco Tauleigne, who was injured during the warm-up during the last match against Pau. He will be operated on one leg and will not return to the field until the end of the season.
The Girondin manager Christophe Urios had already mentioned the possibility of recruiting a medical joker in the third line, since the UBB is somewhat decimated in this position with the injury of the flanker and captain Mahamadou Diaby (rupture of an Achilles tendon) and the departure of the third Samoan line Afa Amosa towards Bayonne, on February 14th.
He will be joined by his friend François Trinh-Duc this summer
Picamoles was no longer really wanted to Montpellier since he was one of the eight players from Montpellier sidelined in mid-January by Philippe Saint-André, when he took up his post following the ouster of Xavier Garbajosa.
Since his return from injury after almost a year of absence, he has struggled to follow through. Released from his last six months of contract in the‘Herald, he will try to relaunch his rich career atUBB, where his friend and ex-teammate of the MHR, François Trinh-Duc, will also land next summer.
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