demoted to N2, the FCR should not appeal the decision which “will inevitably lead to the filing of bankruptcy”

The worst is to come for the last seventh in the National championship. This Thursday, the federal club control commission of the National Management Control Department (DNCG) effectively announced the administrative demotion of FC Rouen to National 2. A decision “of unprecedented seriousness, (which) will inevitably lead to the filing for bankruptcy of the FCR and will mark the beginning of a descent into hell well beyond the National Championship 2” according to Iwan Postel. In a letter sent to the DNCG and revealed by AFP, the new president of the Normandy club did not hesitate to rebuke the financial policeman of French football.

“I find it incomprehensible and deeply unfair that our case was treated with discriminatory severity” regrets the one who has been in place since the beginning of June and the takeover of the club by Turkish businessman Tarkan Ser. However, the latter believed that they had provided a “proposal for immediate and substantial recovery, accompanied by concrete financial contributions”.

The FCR should not appeal

While the last few weeks of competitions have been very difficult to manage for Maxime d’Ornano and his group – the latter having to pay for their own travel – FC Rouen still thought they had escaped certain death. The new owners, who revised the budget downwards, reducing it from 4.8 million euros to 3.8 million euros, did not give satisfaction to the DNCG. The Normandy club, for its part, has more than two million euros of debt after the departure of Charles Maarek. And the new leaders of the Red Devils seem dejected, for whom “nothing will probably change” the position of the financial policeman. FC Rouen should therefore not appeal this decision and leave the club in National 2… in the best case scenario. Without the effective takeover of the extremely rich Turk, the club founded in 1899 should well and truly file for bankruptcy and sink into oblivion.