Maks Van Dyk has received his French passport. But real issue is Maks a test player? He is not. He's 3rd choice at Toulouse and he's 27. Good league player but behind Slimani, Bamba (22), Setiano (21) and Aldegheri (23) the last 3 have been capped in last 12 mths. So unless he raises his game considerably (possible) and there's lots of injuries at TH it'll be hard for him to get selected.
With the JIFF system in Top 14 teams must have 14 JIFF players **on match day**. And non-Jiffs are limited to 16 players in the entire squad.
This goes up to 16 Jiffs for match day and no more than 14 non jiffs next season.
17 Jiffs on match day and no more than 13 non jiffs for season 2021-2022.
Don't know how 9 out of 55 is 'a lot'? that's 16% of the entire squad. Montpellier have 35 French players. And among the 14 new pro contracts showing on their website 11 are French.