“My intimate conviction is that I must stop with the LOSC. “ Sacred Sunday French Ligue 1 champion, coach Christophe Galtier announced that he would leave Lille Olympique Sporting Club (LOSC), in a daily interview The team published Tuesday 25 May.
“I am quite simply convinced that I have done my time here”, explains the technician to the sports daily, confirming to have been asked by Lyon, Nice and Naples for his future. He says he can sign in one of these stables before the end of the week. Nice ended the interim of Romanian Adrian Ursea, Lyon confirmed the departure of Rudi Garcia and Naples formalized that of Gennaro Gattuso at the end of the season.
While Lille brilliantly won the 2021 French championship title from PSG, the technician ensures that his decision is not linked to the ranking of his club:
“If we had finished fourth or seventh, I would have made the same decision. I do not want to leave on a success. I am leaving because I have decided that after four years it is time to leave. “
“I don’t want to fall into a routine”
At 54, the coach, just crowned best coach of the season with the traditional UNFP trophies, explains not wanting to “Fall into a routine”, ensuring that he would have made the same choice without the new financial situation of the northern club, which changed owners during the winter break. “The quality of the workforce for next season or the economic situation of the club are not linked to my departure. It’s related to myself. Over the last four seasons, I feel it’s time ”, he continues.
The one who had been in charge of Lille since December 2017 confides “Need something else” :
“I don’t want to fall into a routine, into something classic, as I knew at one point in Saint-Etienne [qu’il a entraîné de 2009 à 2017]. This wear, while still being in the same environment. “
Christophe Galtier, arrived in the North when Lille was 18e, at the end of 2017, propelled LOSC to the highest step of the Ligue 1 podium in three and a half seasons, giving the club a fourth French league title in its history. In the Champions League, Lille have, however, been eliminated in the group stage this season.