Humiliation for Bordeaux “under” 40 million euros. It is a historic club: 6 times champion of France, Lizarazu and Zidane also played there … And while Adli is free to join Milanello, the club announces an appeal …
The Girondins de Bordeaux have been administratively demoted to Championnat National 1, which is the third division of French football, due to their debt exposure. Bordeaux had already come close to such a situation a year ago, when they were on the verge of liquidation but had been saved. Just a year ago, the French sold the young talent Yacine Adli to Milan. The boy remained for another year in the French team, where he was a starter for the whole season, but his commitment did not help to avoid relegation. Even if the chasm that opens under the feet of Bordeaux, at this moment, is even more serious. Not Ligue 2, but Serie C in fact. And they are pains …
“Girondins de Bordeaux will appeal the court’s decision to demote the club to National 1,” the club said in a statement. “It is with dismay that the FCGB takes note of the decision of our administrative relegation to the third league. The club of course will immediately appeal the decision. This brutal decision, after almost two hours of hearing which we considered constructive, deprives the club of the possibility of continue his strategy to get his finances back on track and write a new page in Bordeaux’s history. “
Not only that: “On June 14, the club presented a guaranteed re-engagement of the majority shareholder for $ 10.4 million, an agreement with the club’s debtors and offers for some players more than the total amount foreseen. The club remains confident in its ability to demonstrate a solid plan for the 2022-23 season in Ligue 2. ” The fact is that Bordeaux’s financial difficulties are recurrent and evidently the club has not been able to reassure the DNCG, which is defined by the French as a bit like the financial watchdog of the French League, in a football movement that, Psg aside, it has big economic problems also due to the constantly falling TV rights revenues. To these problems, Bordeaux adds a catastrophic sporting season, which ended in last place in Ligue 1, with a relegation that had not occurred since 1991-92. From the top flight to the third series in the same summer: in Italy in the past it had happened at Genoa …
June 15, 2022 (change June 15, 2022 | 12:16)
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