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players and the Palace was looking for new investors . Within 12 months , Deschamps had left as coach .
Monaco finished the 2010 – 2011 season in 18th position . There were no funds to strengthen the squad , a very young team was going through a long series of defeats with changes of coaches . By December 2011 , Monaco had sunk to the bottom of Ligue 2 . But then its modern Renaissance era began .
In December 2011 , 66.67 % of the club was sold to the Russian billionaire and Monaco resident Dmitry Rybolovlev . The new dynamic launched another wave of resurgence — back again to Ligue 1 with coach Claudio Ranieri , whose attacking oriented football saw the club score 64 goals in the 2012 – 2013 season . With the club only losing four times , Monaco completed the season as champions , earning promotion back to Ligue 1 .
Monaco became one of the most prodigious spenders in European football in the summer of 2013 . Thanks to Rybolovlev investments they spent more than € 150 million on players including Radamel Falcao , James Rodríguez and João Moutinho .
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Ranieri was succeeded by Leonardo Jardim who joined Monaco in 2014 , and with Jardim the club managed to succeed at grabbing its eighth Ligue 1 championship in the 2016 – 2017 season . The title was secured on 17 May 2017 by defeating Saint-Étienne 2:0 . Radamel Falcao and Kylian Mbappé scored 30 and 26 goals respectively to ensure Monaco won their first Ligue 1 title in 17 years .
The 2016 – 2017 season was also marked by a Champions League semi-final against Juventus . Before that , Monaco had dominated Tottenham , Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund , thus confirming their reputation for defeating the continent ’ s big teams .
All this while managing to attract to the red and white shirt , thanks to the unfailing support of president Dmitry Rybolovlev , such stars as Falcao , Berbatov , Moutinho , Carvalho , Abidal , Ben Yedder and Fabregas .
AS Monaco has long known how to combine experience and talented youth . A pioneer in training since the 1970s , the club has made the development of young players a trademark and is one of the best suppliers of international players .
History records that 5 French world champions were trained at Monaco ( Henry , Trezeguet , Petit , Thuram and Mbappé ), or that 4 players trained at the club scored the last goal sealing the 4 great successes of the French national team in international competition ( Bellone at Euro 1984 , Petit at the 1998 World Cup , Trezeguet at Euro 2000 and Mbappé at the 2018 World Cup ).
In recent years , the Club , which can now take advantage of a high-quality living centre for the Academy with the La Diagonale building , has also become a reference in post-training , bringing out young talents from other horizons in the image of Martial , Bernardo Silva , Carrasco , Ocampos , Bakayoko , Fabinho and Lemar .
AS Monaco remain ambitious . The delivery of the La Diagonale building in autumn 2020 and the forthcoming delivery of the Performance Centre , currently in the final stages of construction at La Turbie , are new tools in the quest for excellence .
This € 55 million investment in the construction of the Performance Centre , which was assured by President Dmitry Rybolovlev , is a testament to the lasting sporting ambition that drives him , but also to his desire to provide AS Monaco with solid foundations for the future .
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The season 2020 – 2021 that has just ended was one of renewal for AS Monaco .
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