Laurent Batlles

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Laurent Batlles
Personal information
Full name Laurent Batlles
Date of birth September 23, 1975 (1975-09-23) (age 32)
Place of birth    Nantes, France
Height 174 cm
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current club Toulouse
Number 8
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1994-1999
1999-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004
2004-2006
2005-2006
2006-		 Toulouse
Bordeaux
Rennes
Bastia
Marseille
→Toulouse (loan)
Toulouse		 159 (10)
70 (3)
28 (2)
38 (4)
49 (11)
31 (3)
48 (5)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 12/2/2007.
* Appearances (Goals)

Laurent Batlles (born 23 September 1975 in Nantes, France) is a French footballer who plays for Toulouse FC.

[edit] Club career

In 1993-94, Batlles emerged from the academy into the Toulouse senior squad, playing his first senior game against Olympique Lyon, on April 2, 1994, a 1-0 defeat.

In 1999, Batlles joined Girondins de Bordeaux after scoring 10 goals in 159 games. At Girondins, Batlles played exactly half of the 1999-2000 season, adding eight games in Bordeaux's Champions League campaign, scoring one goal. The following season he scored three in 32 appearances. He then played 19 league games and 6 in the UEFA Cup, before completing the 2001/02 season with Stade Rennais, where he scored 2 goals in 13 games.

In January 2003, Batlles moved to Corsica and SC Bastia. He played in the remaining 19 games for the Corsicans, but failed to score. He then starred for them in the first 19 games of the 2003-04 before joining Olympique de Marseille, in another January transfer window move.

In one-and a half seasons with L'OM, Batlles scored three goals in 15 games and played in eight of the team's UEFA Cup matches, which included the final they lost 2-0 to Valencia CF. The following season, he scored eight goals in 30 matches. After starting 2005-06 at Marseille (4 appearances), he rejoined Toulouse, initially on loan, scoring three times in 31 games.

Battles joined permanently in 2006-07, after a successful loan spell. The season was tremendous individually (31 games, 4 goals) and collectively, as Toulouse finished third in Ligue 1 and reached the third qualifying round of the Champions League, eventually bowing out to Liverpool FC.

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