Rennes - French international midfielder Yoann Gourcuff field finally chosen its future: it will be reindeer, no surprise, but it returned to his first club leaves open the question of what it will bring.
It's a source close to the leadership of the Red and Black Club which ended late Monday afternoon in a long outstanding long fanned Yoann Gourcuff signed with Stade Rennais.
A one-year contract, according to the will of the player, often expressed by his lawyer and advisor, Didier Poulmaire.
"Yoann Gourcuff join Stade Rennais dice he will be cured of its stress fractures in the foot arch and will be able to resume training with the professional group Stade Rennais", however, said the club in a statement evening, about 29-year-old, free from the end of his contract with Lyon.
It should therefore not be present Tuesday to Roazhon Park for the official photos of the Red and Black.
The sine die postponement of the date of recovery is likely to revive questions about his ability to find his best form and what it can bring to Rennes.
Former great hope of French football, who saw in him very early the successor to Zinedine Zidane, Yoann Gourcuff out of 5 very difficult seasons in Lyon, where he had been transferred a record $ 22 million over 4 euros, 5000000 premiums.
Often injured, he never played more than 20 Ligue 1 matches per season with OL, with the exception of the first (2010/2011).
This summer, he was approached by several French clubs including Bordeaux, with whom he had been champion in 2008/2009 and named best player in Ligue 1, but Montpellier and Guingamp.
Soon his first club, where he arrived at the age of 14 and signed pro at 17, held the rope.
It must be said that President René Ruello, great friend of Christian Gourcuff, Yoann's father and current coach of Algeria, had put a point to return to the fold the playmaker.
- A bet sportif-
For the Stade Rennais, who advanced to second place in Ligue 1 after 5 days on a point of the Parisian leader, signing Gourcuff - a player that the Breton club continues for many years with his attentions - is a sports bet, but already quite a blow of boost in terms of image.
A player of this level - even theoretical - Brittany moreover, that should electrify a club that seeks to break the monotony and a constant feeling of partial failure in recent seasons.
On the ground, it is undeniable that it can bring the touch of creativity and technical correctness offensive still missing in Red and Black to aim higher in the league.
Although he denies having changed from the perspective of his arrival, the new system introduced by the coach Philippe Montanier fluctuating between 3-4-3 and 3-5-2, seems designed to leave the keys to play like him.
Obviously, mortgages hanging over this ideal scenario, are real, starting with his current state of form.
Gourcuff has prepared itself in recent weeks but it seems far away from the drive, not to mention the competition.
- No pressure -
Pierre Mankowski, coach of Hopes and who rubbed shoulders as Deputy Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, believes it.
"For him, the important thing is to play it is to feel good in your body, in his new team. From there, Yoann Gourcuff is able to be very very bright", did -he told AFP.
"Players like that, the qualities they have them and they not lose (...) but 29 years is not old," he said.
Rennes will not put him in any case no pressure.
"If Yoann never comes, although we know is not going to rock the house immediately," recently recognized in Montanier France Football.
"I hope it will work and it will make him want to stay. And if ever he goes, we say we have done something good for a guy from here," he concluded.
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