JAMES HARRINGTON
FRENCH COLUMN

The Laurent Labit-Karim Ghezal era at Stade Francais officially starts here – and the talk around Stade Jean Bouin is of renaissance. Again.
We’ve been here before, more than once, in the years since Capri-Sun king Hans-Peter Wild took charge of the club in 2018, something the good doctor recognised this week, at the new management’s official unveiling.
“After Heyneke Meyer, after Gonzalo Quesada, Laurent Labit is the third face of our sports project. We have learned a lot over these five years,” Dr Wild said. “I am confident that, with Laurent, we will ach...