After having accumulated the snoring names in vain, Racing 92 appears to have taken a turning point in its recruitment for the 2025-2026 season. An evolution that Patrice Collazo confirms and justifies.
Racing 92 has decided to turn the page. After the departures of Cameron Woki in Bordeaux-Bègles or Owen Farrell in the Saracens, the Ile-de-France club began a new chapter in which the snoring names have obviously no longer the right of city. Questioned by the specialized magazine Olympic MidiChief coach Patrice Collazo said he wanted to “return an image of a collective” even if he admits having “some individuals, in quotes, some X factors” in his group. It is with this in mind that the renewal of the workforce was led with “recruits that stick to a new project”.
A mixture of experience and youth has therefore joined the ranks of Heaven-et-Blanc with Patrice Collazo who hopes to have made “a recruitment which wins” but, above all, which allows a group around the collective to be united. “I think it was important today that Racing puts itself in walking order collectively,” he added. We no longer want to be dependent on a player. This is why release a recruit from the lot, to put it forward, it is not to be a service. Despite everything, there is a name that comes up most often. It is Ugo Senes which “arrives from Aurillac on tiptoe and which has made a huge season”, according to his new coach. Indeed, after having contributed to the maintenance of the Cantalou club in Pro D2, the 24 -year -old made the big jump by joining the Top 14.
Collazo sees a “different” player in the senes
A player who was followed “for a little while” but whose arrival in Ile-de-France was undoubtedly precipitated. “We wanted to leave it for another year in Aurillac,” admits Patrice Collazo. But we had to turn around quickly. Indeed, with the combined departures of Owen Farrell, Tristan Tedder and Dan Lancaster combined with the arrival of the Argentinian Geronimo Prestitelli, the technical supervision of Racing 92 needed a greater depth in the post of half opening. But it was done without regret in the face of the profile of Ugo Senes. “This is the kind of player who is different,” says the Ile -de -France coach.
These are players who do not ask you the same questions as the others. He then evokes an anecdote linked to a conversation between Ugo Senes, Frédéric Michalak and himself. “During a conversation in Visio, he said to Frédéric Michalak: ‘You know, I am young, I have not known you, but my rugby reference, it is Christophe Deylaud’, recalls Patrice Collazo. And there Fred’s eye began to sparkle. “A promising player who could personify the new approach to Racing 92, summarized by his coach as” another way of thinking and designing things “. While the last title now dates back to a decade, it might need that to put the sky-and-black on the front of the stage both national and continental.
