We don’t really talk about football at FC Martigues these days. The athlete is relegated to the background behind the club’s financial problems, and too bad if Thierry Laurey’s men showed a few interesting things against Bastia in a friendly, Friday evening in Salon-de-Provence (1-1). What occupies everyone is above all the financial crisis affecting the club, the move from the Vélodrome to the rural Jean-Laville stadium in Gueugnon, and the “chicayas” that result from it, as everyone rejects the mistake.
“I arrived at the beginning of July, after a few days, I understood that there was something fishy going on,” said Pierre Wantiez, the current president, a few days ago. “Money was mismanaged last seasongave Lepa Galeb-Roskopp, the American owner of the club a new look Friday evening in a press release. I plan to hold accountable people who acted dishonestly and knowingly.“To put it bluntly: the club’s financial situation, in the red for several weeks with defaults on payments to several suppliers, is a legacy of older errors.
