Posted on December 16, 2021 at 3:33 p.m. by Editorial staff updated on December 16, 2021 at 3:35 p.m.
While Rennes will lose some players during the CAN, there are no plans to replace them according to Bruno Génésio.
From January 1, the winter transfer window will open its doors. For Rennes , this could be the opportunity to compensate for some departures because of the CAN. However, this Thursday, at a press conference, Bruno Génésio assured on this subject: “To strengthen for three or four weeks, it's still complicated. Because I have players who are able to compensate for absences, whether at the right-back position or in central defense. Today, if we recruit for example a central defender, what do we do with him when the CAN is going to end? And if it is a player who does not play, by the time it gets back on the road, it is already over. If you bring a regular player to his club to play for a month and he ends up number three or four when Aguerd comes back, how does it go? You have to take all these parameters into account, I am counting on Loïc (Badé), on Lorenz in particular, on Romain (Salin, number two goalkeeper against Lorient). We also have Dogan (Alemdar) and in front, to compensate for the absence of Kamaldeen, we have enough people too. So, at some point, you have to trust the players and we still have other young people behind who can help out in the event of a hard blow, like Lesley (Ugochukwu) for example in central defense, so it's the choice that we will most certainly do, it is assumed, considered, I think it is the right decision ”.