The situation of the Montpellier Hérault Sport Club is alarming, marked by a downward spiral in Ligue 1 and a growing divide between management and players. The club conceded a tenth consecutive defeat, bowing to Angers, which now puts him in a red lantern position with a relegation to Ligue 2 which seems inevitable. These disappointing performances are exacerbated by a media incident involving Andy Delort, who attacked the club, who won a padel tournament when he was supposed to be unavailable due to a disease, indignant about the supporters and accentuating the disengagement image of certain elements of the team.

In an upsurge following this new counter-performance, Laurent Nicollin, president of the club, expressed a strong criticism of his players, suggesting that some were no longer part of the Montpellierrain project. He denounced attitudes deemed unacceptable, stressing that the time had come to put an end to the jokes and to start off on a healthy basis with players actually engaged in the fight for the club. The president also refused to appoint the players concerned, leaving responsibility for identification to the press, a sign of a tense and confrontational atmosphere within the staff.

The harmful atmosphere is confirmed by the behavior of the players, Jordan Ferri, questioned on the statements of his president, having shortened his interview without comment, testifying to the electric climate prevailing in the locker room. With six days of championship still to be played, Montpellier seems already resigned to a deep reconstruction, but the next few weeks will be difficult, marked by a multidimensional crisis, between catastrophic sporting results and an obvious break between the management and the players.