 The club was in the third division when he took over in 1992.He would later say “I want to build a club for Paris, for the people, of which it can be proud”.Together with his backing, the club merged with another Parsian team, the Comitie Athletic St Germain (CASG) in 1995, and with then head-coach Bernard Laporte (later becoming the head coach of France) they rose rapidly up into the elite division of French rugby.