Former player of Marseille, Paris and especially Lyon, Florian Maurice has been the technical director of Stade Rennais since May 2020. Often sniffing out the good moves on the transfer market, his method is often compared to a game of Football Manager, but he assures us that he does not not know the game. In an interview for SoFoothe returned to the words of Bruno Cheyrou, who felt that you had to be a former professional player to recognize the real value of a player.
“For me, that’s wrong. I will give a concrete example: Gérard Bonneau (former head of youth recruitment at OL, editor’s note) was not a pro, and he is undoubtedly one of the best youth recruiters I have known. In the recruitment unit for training in Rennes, there is not a pro player (with the exception of Philippe Barraud, who notably passed through Rennes, editor’s note). It means nothing. Gérard, who is in Dijon now, is a beast, he is a monster in this area. He played in DH, but he has the eye“Explained the one who has six selections with the France team between 1996 and 1999.
