Iwan Postel, president of FC Rouen, was helpless in the face of the DNCG’s decision published this Thursday, June 27. The club was administratively relegated to National 2, after its very first season in the upper division.
Flashback. FC Rouen, which is coming out of its first season in its history in National (3rd division), will return to the lower division. The club was administratively relegated this Thursday to National 2 by the National Management Control Directorate (DNCG), for a failure to meet financial requirements.
A huge blow for the president of the club, who has just arrived at the head of the club. “I am in a state of shock because we were convinced that we were going to pass, we had done everything for it,” laments Iwan Postel at the microphone of BFM Normandie.
“The funds are there, with subsidies that have tripled compared to last year. It is a decision that we find totally unjustified, no matter how it is motivated,” he adds.
“A complete workforce which is unemployed”
The club was coming out of its first season in the National, and had succeeded brilliantly by finishing in 7th place in the ranking. “This decision will inevitably lead to the club filing for bankruptcy,” added its president in a letter addressed to the DCNG and relayed by AFP.
Iwan Postel was appointed president of FC Rouen at the beginning of June, after the club was bought by Tarkan Ser, a Turkish businessman. The future of the quarter-finalist of the last Coupe de France is now in serious jeopardy.
“It’s catastrophic. There is an entire squad that is unemployed, coaches who have waited until now and who have to find a club within two to three days,” regrets Iwan Postel.
“These are people to whom the club owes hundreds of thousands of euros, it’s Urssaf… It’s not just the players, it’s the employees of the club, it’s what it generates, it “It’s the craze, that’s all,” he concludes.
