Racing 92’s transformation runs through their recruitment too. After a botched 2024-2025 season, which ended in a disappointing 10th place in Top 14 and a first failure to reach the play-offs since their promotion in 2009, the Hauts-de-Seine club decided to scale back on the big names. That approach also applied to the strategic fly-half berth. Where Racing have tended to target international stars over the past 15 years (Sexton, Carter, Russell, Farrell), they have been more restrained this summer, with the sole signing of Zebre’s Argentine Geronimo Prisciantelli.

According to Midi Olympique, he will be joined in the coming days by Ugo Seunes (24), whose contract with Aurillac has reportedly been bought out for a fee of 230,000 euros. His arrival would offset the departure of England’s Owen Farrell, currently on tour with the British and Irish Lions, who has chosen to return to Saracens after just one season in France.

A successful season in Pro D2 after 4 years in Nationale

Like Prisciantelli, Seunes is not a name that means much to the wider public. Unlike his illustrious counterparts Romain Ntamack and Matthieu Jalibert, he was not thrust into the top level the moment he came of age. A product of Agen in his youth, the playmaker cut his senior teeth at Blagnac, where he spent 4 seasons in Nationale.

After the Toulouse-suburb club filed for bankruptcy during the 2023-2024 season, the baby-faced number 10 bounced back immediately and even stepped up a level, signing a division higher at Aurillac. With success.

His only season in Pro D2 was a fine one, in stark contrast to that of the Cantal side, who had to go through a play-off to save their skins in the second division. Accurate off the tee and a good attacker (he scored 8 tries), the former Blagnac man stood out to the point of being considered one of the revelations of the division. It was also a year in which he showed a real appetite for the drop goal, as he proved in the play-off at Chambéry by slotting one from the halfway line.

At nearly 25, the time may finally have come for him to show his talents in a Top 14 where he will nonetheless have to toughen up to survive and, who knows, make his mark.