Landed in December on the bench of AS Monaco following the ousting of the Croatian Niko Kovac when the Asemitic club was 6th in the championship, the Belgian Phillipe Clement, whose Monaco is still 6thwould have the full confidence of its management: “the sporting director (Paul Mitchell), the vice-president (Oleg Petrov) and myself spoke with president Rybolovlev. I spoke more than four hours with him. He said that we have his full support in the current project. Recently, he was less present. He wants to be more involved once more. We talked regarding the current players, the profiles we need for next season.
The former Brugge coach, however, regrets the article by The Teamthen denied by the management, which informed that the president of the ASM would do a major cleaning in the club this summer: “You never know the future when you are a coach. That’s life. I was surprised at the timing, before a big match ( once morest PSG, 3-0, on March 20). I then thought only of its preparation. In order not to destabilize the players, I told my assistants: “We don’t talk regarding that to the players, we stay focused to win”. Well he took it.
