The elected official of the Metropolis, Gerard Chaussetspoke about the current situation of the Girondins de Bordeaux, explaining that the Scapular Club had been in decline for several years.
“It’s sport first and foremost, and for a draw or a win, the situation could have completely changed. It was a close call. It’s not just the financial situation. Football is sport. We can of course make lots of exegeses about football, money, etc., I agree, but at the end of the day it’s sport. When you invest in sport, there is the uncertainty of sport. There are big clubs that have gone down, some for administrative reasons, but also for sporting reasons. The evil also comes a little from afar, it does not start in 2021. Mr. Lopez is certainly at fault, he put more or less €40M of his own pocket into it, he is at fault a lot, but he is a representative of football as it is today. The first transfer, the sale of M6, caused a lot of damage, with people taking the club and doing anything. It’s the result of a whole story for ten years, since the 2009 title. Since then, it’s gone downhill. We’ve been bored watching the Girondins play for ten years. It was really dismal, and lots of mistakes were made. Today we are there, and I am not sure that the community should interfere too much in the management of the club. A representative on the board perhaps, but that’s it. It was done in the past, with Jacques Chaban Delmas, we know what happened. It is not our role to manage professional football clubs. Afterwards, let’s have a look, that’s all. But I’m not sure because there are people whose job it is. We can question the system, ok, but I don’t think we have much interest in meddling too much with football.
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