“ We have found an agreement with the player, and with the club too. This will be for next season. The case is going more than well. He should arrive during the summer ”.
This announcement made by Pierre Dréossi on January 17th, eventually failed to turn into facts. According to L’Équipe, contacts with Belgian forward Christian Benteke was finally abandoned. This information was first given by daily newspaper La Meuse and confirmed by the player’s agent. “It is completely over”, he explained to L’Équipe
According to the newspaper, however, the young twenty years old forward could still arrive in France this summer, with several Ligue 1 teams said to be interested in his profile.