MHB: Montpellier announces the extension of a key player and the recruitment of a medical joker after the serious injury of Lucas Pellas

For its return week, Montpellier Handball announced the extension of Bryan Monte as well as the recruitment of a medical joker after the serious injury of its Swedish winger Lucas Pellas.

Erick Mathé, the coach of Montpellier Handball, had no illusions. “When we get back from the World Cup,” he said, we'll open the surprise bag and see where they (the players) are physically but also psychologically.”

With nine boys involved in the competition – Desbonnet, Bolzinger, Konan (France), Pellas, Karlsson (Sweden), Monte (Brazil), Hesham (Egypt), Nacinovic (Croatia) and Cikusa (Spain) – the risk of finding a few cripples on Wednesday when training resumed was high. “Nine players who performed with their national team”, the club president, Julien Deljarry, was keen to congratulate himself.

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Achilles tendon for Pellas

The bad news unfortunately did not take long to arrive. On Monday, during the resumption conference, the Montpellier president confirmed the serious injury – yet another – of Lucas Pellas. Victim of a ruptured Achilles tendon, like Kyllian Villeminot, the small Scandinavian winger will be unavailable until the end of the season. “He injured himself while jogging to get back into shape, at home in Sweden. He is staying there to have surgery under the supervision of our medical staff”, described Julien Deljarry.

Without delay, the MHB leaders made numerous phone calls to secure the services of a medical joker, “to maintain our competitiveness”, specified the MHB boss. The rare bird is expected this Tuesday in Montpellier.

This is the Icelander Dagur Gautason (24 years old, 1.70 m) and current player of the Norwegian club Arendal, voted best player in his position in the Norwegian championship, currently with more than 80% success, the club specified. The contract has been signed and is in the process of being approved by the League, but the MHB hopes that he will be selected for the Coupe de France match against Aix, Saturday (7 p.m.).

Monte extends

The Montpellier club, on the other hand, announced excellent news with the extension of its Brazilian nugget, Bryan Monte (21 years old, 1.93 m). The left-back and Auriverde international will be tied to the MHB until 2029.

The player, barely off the bench after a successful World Cup with his national team (quarter-finalist), said he was very “happy to stay and continue to grow with Montpellier, with these colours”. “I want to continue to win and develop”. Nice message!