Since Denis Le Saint announced it to the Stade Brestois supporters groups before Christmas, the thing seemed understood: once the league phase was over, the Finistère club would go and write the rest of its European history at the Stade de France. . The result is a huge publicity stunt, coupled with a great financial operation (between 3 and 4 million euros in expected revenue).
In the minds of the Le Saint brothers, whose youngest Denis had expressed last September in the columns of Le Figaro that playing in the Saint-Denis grounds was “pious thinking”, the objective was clear. And this, especially since the specifications required by UEFA once the play-off stage or the 1/8 finals of the Champions League have been reached, involve lowering the number of seats to 11,500 for the Brest supporters at Roudourou, “and perhaps less”, as Denis Le Saint indicated to Télégramme following the meeting of December 20. Or that the possibility of opting for Roazhon Park had been ruled out for a while, due to too much development to be carried out.
Reluctance at all levels
Except that. As soon as the presidential will was expressed, it encountered hostility from a large fringe of Brest ultras, all groups combined. The latter, reluctant to leave a Roudourou stadium where all the Brest supporters quickly found their feet, also did not look favorably on the prospect of having to go to the capital to follow the rest of the competition .
Already exhausted by an adventure for which nothing predestined the club, moreover not at all dimensioned to calmly organize such an event (from the point of view of ticketing, logistics, security, etc.), the different branches of Stade Brestois did not all see themselves taking responsibility a new move, in such a short period of time.
Faced with these various reluctances, to which should be added the desire to stay in Guingamp expressed by certain players, Brendan Chardonnet in the lead, the Le Saint brothers ended up accepting the idea that they were a little alone in their desire to see bigger. A turnaround all the more obvious as it came even before UEFA took a position on the feasibility of seeing Brest play at the Stade de France, as the club also made it known.
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