Luka Elsner will be one of the more expensive Slovenians this summer: The Ljubljana native is leaving, and Le Havre will receive a hefty transfer fee for him
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There are no doubts anymore, Luka Elsner is definitively leaving Le Havre, with whom he won Ligue 2 last year and stayed in Ligue 1 this year. His good work has also caught the attention of other clubs, and in the end, Reims, a former Champions League finalist, won the battle for him. Negotiations between Le Havre and Reims dragged on for almost a month, and Jean-Pierre Caillot, the head of Elsner’s future club, finally managed to convince his counterpart from Océane Stadium.
“The paperwork is currently in the final stages of processing. It should be completed in the next few hours,” admitted Le Havre’s top official Jean-Michel Roussier, and the newspaper L’Equipe adds that Reims will pay around 500,000 euros in compensation for the former coach of Domžale and Olimpija, who has also worked in Belgium and Cyprus. Reims could not avoid this payout as Luka Elsner had another year left on his contract with Le Havre.
Meanwhile, Le Havre has reportedly already found Elsner’s successor; the first team is expected to be taken over by Didier Digard, a former footballer who proved himself during his playing career at clubs like Paris Saint-Germain, Middlesbrough, Nice, Real Betis, and Osasuna. As a coach, he was last active in Nice, the city where Luka Elsner grew up…
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