Argentine en route to Montpellier?

As reported last week, Ligue 1 side Montpellier will be managerless when this season comes to an end.

Rene Girard will leave his post as manager when his contract expires in July 2013 and Montpellier’s loose canon of a chairman Louis Nicollin is on the hunt for a replacement.

Nicollin today announced that the club had been in talks with Argentine legend Diego Maradona, who is currently the Dubai Sports Council’s (DSC) global ambassador.

However, the DSC advisor, Younes Bouklit, is adamant that no contact has been made and Diego is going nowhere.

In reply, Nicollin told the Montpellier newspaper Midi Libre, “We didn’t just say that to amuse everyone, It’s Maradona who contacted us via an intermediary whom I know well and whose name I don’t want to divulge. Period. If the president of the club [DSC] over there says it’s not true, fine. I really don’t care”

Maradona is under contract in the United Arab Emirates until 2016 and Younes Bouklit has confirmed that Diego has no interest what so ever of coaching in France.

Whoever said what and whoever contacted who, if any. I for one would love to see Diego Maradona at the helm of a European club.

And who better for Diego to work with than Montpellier’s Nicollin?