Find all the latest transfer information thanks to Midi Olympique. This week, Toulon targets three wingers including Louis Dupichot, Montpellier secures a third recruit and Perpignan extends two executives.
Toulon: Dupichot approaching?
The Toulon staff are looking for a winger Jiff for the coming season. Suddenly, the leaders have logically surveyed the market for players at the end of the contract in recent weeks. And three names come back with insistence: the Bordelo-Béglais Geoffrey Cros (25 years old), the Montpellier international Vincent Rattez (30 years old; 9 selections) and the Racingman Louis Dupichot (27 years old). According to the latest information, the latter would hold the rope to take up a new challenge on the Rade in a few months.
Arrived at the Ile-de-France club in 2011 to join the training center, the person concerned has more than a hundred appearances with the sky and white jersey, Top 14 and Champions Cup combined, for twenty-seven tries. Also able to play at the back, Dupichot had been loaned to Pau during the 2016-2017 season. During the current exercise, he appeared nine times for seven starts and one try.
Montpellier: a third English recruit will arrive
According to information from L’Équipe, the English international pillar of Exeter Harry Williams (31 years old, 19 caps) has signed up with Montpellier, which was looking for a replacement for Mohamed Haouas, leaving for Clermont. Harry Williams is a Chiefs executive. He has played sixteen games this season, fifteen of which as a starter. Montpellier continue their recruitment in England since the MHR had already obtained the signatures of third row Sam Simmonds and hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie.
Valence-Romans: Raphaël Saint-André or David Gérard in the running?
The leaders of Valence-Romans, who plays at the top of the National table and can aim to move up to Pro D2 at the end of the current financial year, are currently working to find the right technician to place at the head of the staff. next season. Several names have been circulating lately. Among them, that of Raphaël Saint-André, originally from the area and who notably trained Lyon, Dax, Hungary or Russia; or that of David Gérard, who was dismissed from his post in Montauban at the end of October. The former second line has also already officiated in Béziers and Lyon.
Montpellier (2): Samuel Maximin will stay until the end of the season
The third row Samuel Maximin, left on loan last season in Rouen, returned to the MHR at the end of December. He will end the season with the champion of France. After captain Yacouba Camara’s serious knee injury, and the absences of Florian Verhaeghe, Janse Van Rensburg and Romain Macurdy, Montpellier needs to strengthen the second and third line of its workforce and therefore keep the 21-year-old player.
La Rochelle: Sclavi until 2026
Arriving in the 2021 off-season, Argentinian international Joel Sclavi (28), is extending his commitment to Stade Rochelais until 2026. Passed through Pau and Soyaux-Angoulême, he has played 28 games with Stade Rochelais since his arrival, including twelve as holder.
Perpignan: Degmache and De la Fuente towards extra time
As indicated by our colleagues from The Independent on Sunday, scrum half Sadek Degmache and Argentinian center Jeronimo de la Fuente are about to extend their contracts with Usap. The first, aged 27, is a pure Catalan since he was trained in Céret and arrived in Perpignan in 2015. The second, at 31, is none other than the vice-captain of Usap where he quickly established himself after his arrival in 2020. De la Fuente is also expected to extend his contract with the Catalan club.
Nevers: Locked Loaloa
Last Friday, the Nevers club formalized the extension of its Fijian center Alivereti Loaloa. Aged 22, the young three-quarter arrived at the club in 2019, and reached an agreement with the Nivernais club to extend his four-year contract: one year as a Hope, and three years as a professional. He is thus linked with Uson Nevers Rugby until 2027. To date, he has played 16 games, including 13 as a starter.
Montauban: Fortunal returns to Sapiac
The opening half Thomas Fortunel will find the stadium and the club that revealed him, Sapiac and Montauban. Aged 27, the number 10, passed by Castres and Grenoble has signed up with USM for the next three seasons, and is therefore linked to the Tarn-et-Garonne club until 2026.
Vannes: three young people have extended
RC Vannes announced on Sunday the contract extensions of three young players in their squad. The 21-year-old three-quarter center, Youenn Floch, has signed up until 2025. Winger Théo Bastardie (22) has also extended until 2025. Finally, the right pillar Simon Bourgeois (21) has signed until 2026.
Bourg-en-Bresse: The Niçois Tachat arrives as reinforcements
Particularly diminished by injuries to the third line position, the USB validated the arrival as an additional player of Niçois Nicolas Tachat. The 29-year-old player (1.84m, 107kg) has signed up for the end of the season with the Violets. note that he had already passed through the club between 2012 and 2014, within the hope team.
Wales: Moriarty between Northampton and Exeter
Welsh international third row Ross Moriarty could return to the English championship next year. Indeed, our English colleagues indicate that the number eight of the Dragons, where he has been playing since 2018 after having played for a long time for Gloucester, is of interest to two Premiership clubs, in this case the Northampton Saints and the Exeter Chiefs. The latter will in particular lose their emblematic number 8 Sam Simmonds, leaving for Montpellier. 28-year-old Ross Moriarty has 56 appearances with Wales.
Argentina: Former Montpellier Maximiliano Bustos takes the lead
Former Argentinian international Maximiliano Bustos (36), who passed through Montpellier between 2011 and 2015, has just been appointed forward coach for Cobras, the professional Brazilian franchise of Super Rugby Americas. The man who was forced to end his career prematurely in 2015, due to a cervical hernia, had until then served in the country, with the club Estudiantes de Paraná.
