à Bordeaux « on n’a jamais été aussi près du précipice et on a très peur pour la suite »
The rejection of the appeal of the Girondins de Bordeaux barely announced, Tuesday, July 5 at the end of the day, the mayor of Bordeaux Pierre Hurmic and the owner of the Girondins de Bordeaux Gérard Lopez spoke by telephone about this decision which relegates the amateur football club. The city councilor recommended indicating to the president of the club that “local authorities were behind the club”, explained Mr. Hurmic to the World.
This relegation of the Girondins de Bordeaux to National 1 (the 3rd division nationally) “is a disaster for the professional teams, male and female, the training center and especially all the employees”, also reacted Mr. Hurmic and the president of the metropolis Alain Anziani, in a joint press release sent in the evening.
“It is not conceivable to stick to this decision in view of the dramatic consequences for the club and the territory. In particular, the Bordeaux commercial court had recently validated the guarantees negotiated between the club and its creditors, documents yet rejected by the sports body, “ continue the two chosen ones, continue that “remedies such as referral to the CNOSF [Comité national et olympique sportif français] or the judge in chambers of the administrative court are open to club leaders. »
Alain Anziani as Pierre Hurmic “by directing the Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, so that the CNOSF can decide within a timeframe compatible with the resumption of the Ligue 2 season, on the scope of the guarantees reduced by the Girondins de Bordeaux with the DNCG”, the National Directorate of Management Control, the financial policeman of French football.
The opposition calls for an “emergency meeting”
If the elected metropolitan officials had voted unanimously, before Tuesday’s meeting with the DNCG, the spreading of the club’s debt (5.8 million euros) over the next two seasons, and the smoothing of rents due for the use of the Matmut Atlantique stadium over the next two years until the end of the 2024-2025 season, Pierre Hurmic agrees with the World that ” It was not enough “. But, he continues, “Fortunately, we took this decision to show the DNCG that we were patient on the payment of debts”.
The metropolitan opposition group Renouveau Bordeaux for its part immediately reacted to the demotion of the Girondins, asking “an emergency meeting, bringing together all the parties concerned in the club and the elected officials of the metropolis in order to assess the future impacts for the community and to work without delay to identify the conditions for the recovery of our club”. What annoyed Pierre Hurmic: “The metropolis to take its responsibilities with an executive who examines the situation in depth. »
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