Girard on departure, Fox tipped in Lille? – BBC Sport

According to L’Equipe, the coach and the Northern leaders have begun talks for a separation this summer. His successor could be Hervé Renard.

The beginning of the end. After two years made of ups and downs, the first outweighing the latter, René Girard is expected to leave Lille next summer. With no doubt, the satisfaction of accomplishment. However, on 14 June 2013, when it officially engaged with the LOSC, who had just Montpellier take the first title of champion of France’s history not landed in conquered territory. Far from there. On the bench, he succeeded indeed to a certain Rudi Garcia, the coach who led the club to a northerner fantastic double championship-Coupe de France in 2011. This means that the distrust towards him was high among the supporters, both Professionally human. Due to the often volcanic character of the newcomer, many people fear that Girard arrives as an elephant in the china shop of Lille. A year and a third place in Ligue 1 later, skepticism had flown …

A strong enmity with Vandamme
But after a successful first performance, Girard is going through a second, more complicated. In sporting terms first, even if Lille, after a difficult start to the season (14th in the standings after 13 days), has made a nice recovery since the beginning of the return phase. From the point of knock at the door of the European places down from his 8th place, three points behind the sixth, Bordeaux. But the real crux of the problem for the Gard is more in the field of non-sport. Particularly in its relations, nonexistent, with Jean-Michel Vandamme, the current adviser to the Yankee president Michel Seydoux. But Vandamme will be promoted next summer to the position of Deputy Director Losc instead of Frederic Paquet, near Girard. A perspective which obviously does not delight all the former coach of Montpellier …

Fox in the viewfinder since December
Another source stumbling between two parts, the new sports policy implemented by Seydoux, who has decided to focus more on training and part with some important elements, such as Simon Kjaer and Idrissa Gueye, for economic reasons. Except that 61 years, Girard would not be interested in such a project and the prospect reuse hands dirty youth. So, it would have meant to Seydoux, who wanted to extend the a priori, his desire to leave. Without however sit on his last year of contract and his salary, valued at 100,000 euros gross monthly. Hence the negotiations opened recently so the adventure ends intelligently

At the same time, the question of his possible successor was well advanced since named prominently. That of Hervé Renard. It must be said that contacts have been established at … December by Jean-Michel Vandamme to probe a possible compatibility between LOSC and the current coach of the Ivory Coast. Obviously, the two are made for each other. So there remain more than to convince leaders Lille, against hard cash, the Ivorian Federation unleash Fox. Not unbearably so.